The Entrepreneurship Awareness Cell was constituted by the IQAC, St Joseph’s Degree College Kurnool on June 2019 to spread awareness and to motivate the under graduate students regarding the entrepreneurial skills and to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship.
Plan of Action:
The team of lecturers and student volunteers organize pep talks, seminars, idea generating competitions and business plan competitions for the students,to encourage the students to venture into business world of comepetition. . For a better understanding of the business ecosystem and the various government incentives & schemes experts in the fields are to be invited and interactive sessions are to be arranged.
In November 2020 after gaining recognition as a Member of National Rural Entrepreneurship Mission by Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India, Entrepreneurship Awareness Cell was upgraded into Entrepreneurship Development Cell(EDC)
Collaboration with MIC:
Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India has established ‘MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC)’ to systematically foster the culture of Innovation amongst all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The primary mandate of MIC is to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas and transform them into prototypes in their informative years.
On 12th March 2022, St Joseph’s Degree college got enrolled under IIC under the guidance of Academic Head Showrilu Reddy under the able leadership of Principal Dr K.Shantha and Vice Principal Dr C.V Satyanarayana. IIC formed with a team of 8 external resource persons who are prominent experts from different fields and 11 lecturers from different streams of the college. From its inception IIC team has been taking things on a very passionate way and the team has been relentlessly planning and organizing programs that have been prescribed by IIC in specific time
Members of Entrepreneurship Development Cell:
In-Charge of the Cell: Dr. K.Shantha, Principal
Convener: Mrs Lakshmi Devi, Lecturer, Department of Humanities
Committee Members:
1. Mr. R.Prasad, Lecturer, Department of Commerce & Management
2. Mrs M. Saritha, Lecturer, Department of Zoology
3. Dr V H S Pallavi ,Department of Commerce & Management
4. Mr. J. Siva Krishna , Lecturer, Department of Commerce & Management
5. Mr Sadiq Hassan, Lecturer, Department of Chemistry
IIC & EDC Faculty Council
- Dr K. Shantha Principal –IIC President
- Dr C.V. Satyanaryana, Vice Principal – Executive member
- Dr R. Lilambeswar Singh – Vice President
- Mrs G.Lakshmi Devi –IIC Convener,Department of Management
- Mr R. Prasad – EDC Convener,Department of Commerce & Management
- Mrs M.Saritha – Startup Coordinator,Department of Zoology
- Mr J.Siva Krishna – YUKTI Coordinator ,Department of Commerce & Management
- Dr V H S Pallavi – Lead Advisor,Department of Management
- Mrs Saiqua Zareen – IPR Coordinator,Department of Botany
- Mr Sadiq Hassan – Social media Coordinator,Department of Chemistry
- Dr V.Suresh Babu – ATAL School in-charge,Department of Mathematics
- Mr B.Chandra Sekhar - ATAL School in-charge,Department of Mathematics
- Mrs P.Neelima – Webpage in-charge,Department of Microbiology
- Mr P.Moulali – Field Visit Coordinator,Department of Statistics
- Ms Afshan Anjum - ATAL School in-charge,Department of Physics
- Mrs Rabia Tanzila,Department of Botany
- Mr B.T Subhash Chandra Naidu,Department of Electronics
- Mrs N.Bhargavi,Department of Chemistry
- Mr Siva Kumar,Department of Computer Science
- Mrs Arshiya Arab,Department of Physics
Mission:
To nurture the ideas of leadership, self development, robust attitude.
To develop a positive attitude towards risk amomg the student community that impacts their life, career and community.
Vision:
The Entrepreneurship Awareness Cell strives to spread awareness on entrepreneurship and equip the students with necessary information & skills to plunge into the market as entrepreneurs.
