Entrepreneurship is Answer to Sliding Job Placements

A few days ago a rather disturbing news item announced that IIT Roorkee's recent campus placement process left many of its graduating students without any job. This is worrying. It can be quite demoralising and even worrying for the aspirants as well as the next generation of graduating students. However, this may be a good time for IIT Roorkee to examine several issues about the process of recruitments.

- Dinesh Singh Former Vice-Chancellor, Delhi University; Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston, US

activities. Their professor realised that these two were quite good at creative thinking. He used to full advantage the facilities and opportunities that the newly established on-campus entrepreneurial park offered. He managed to secure some basic funding for the two students and gave them a free hand at experimenting through the various technological and computational facilities that had been set up at the park. Soon enough these students came up with a potentially good and rewarding idea and the upshot is that their startup to manufacture well-made and highly innovatively designed electric scooters has become quite a success. In addition, IIT Madras holds a small stake in the enterprise and so it has been a win-win situation for all concerned.