Entrepreneurship Cell is a non-profit student-professor body dedicated to the promotion of student startups and entrepreneurship, both inside IIT Kharagpur and outside. For this purpose we conduct Guest Lectures, Workshops and Business Plan Competitions and provide mentorship and incubation support to aspiring student entrepreneurs.

The Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive (EAD) is one of our major flagship events, the other being the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in January and consists of a series of Guest Lectures and Workshops in 20 cities in 20 days in the month of October. Each city plays host to an Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp (EAC), where eminent entrepreneurs and industry leaders counsel students about the pros and cons of entrepreneurship as a career and how it differs from the usual run-of-the-mill job culture that has existed till now. EAD has come a long way since its inception 4 years ago and has seen the number of cities grow from 10 to 20 and a footfall of 7550 in 2011.
Some of the distinguished guests who have stood on the dais of EAD include Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Founder of Biocon, Mr. Irrfan Alam, Founder, Sammaan Foundation and the contemporary face of Social Entrepreneurship in India and Ms. Shaheen Mistry, Founder, Teach for India Foundation. As this drive continues to reach more students and entrepreneurs, we move one step closer to achieving Vision 2020, as outlined by Former President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
The Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive also coincides with the launch of our International Business Plan Competitions: Empresario and Envision, which attract enthusiastic participation from all over the nation and beyond.
Empresario 2011 generated a huge buzz across the country as we got a total of 1450 entries in its very first edition. It is the biggest business plan competition on the country with prize money of Rs. 6 lacks and a total incubation support of Rs. 1.8 crores up for grabs.
Envision: The Product Design Competition of IIT Kharagpur attracted some of the best engineering innovations from across the country and beyond. The winners were Roof for Two, a Team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who came down to Kharagpur for the Finals
For more details, Contact National EAD Coordinator Rajesh Ranjan(+9195641-87054) and Sakshi Agarwal(+9177972-57884) or log on to www.ecell-iitkgp.org . To get to our Facebook Page, go to www.facebook.com/ecell.iitkgp