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Annual Report 2012-13

1 Entrepreneurship & Talent Development Cell

Entrepreneurship &

Talent Development

Cell

Annual Report

2012-2013

Department of

Management Studies

V.V.Vanniaperu

mal College for

Women

Virudhunagar

V.V.Vanniaperumal College for Women (Autonomous)

Virudhunagar



Table of Contents

S.No Contents Page.

No

1. About the Entrepreneurship & Talent Development Cell 3

2. Objectives of the cell 4

3. Activities of the cell 5

4. Activities organized by the cell 2012-2013 (in Nutshell)

4.1 Entrepreneurship development Activities

4.2 Talent Development Activities

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7

5. Campus company 8

6. Calendar of events 2012-2013 9

7. Grant applied by the cell 17

8. Advisory board Members of the cell 17

9. Future planned activities of the cell 18



Virudhunagar is laden with entrepreneurs. The Entrepreneurial culture of this land is also

seen in women and they exhibit it by carrying out small business and enrolling themselves as self

help groups. It makes clear that a conscious and targeted effort can help spread entrepreneurial

culture among women and make them more self sustainable.

As an educational institution we would like to create entrepreneurial spirit and culture

among the students and women in Virudhunagar. Hence the Entrepreneurship Development cell

was inaugurated in the Department of Management Studies in our college in the academic year

2012-2013 to redefine the role of the youth and women and make them more independent. The

cell focuses to promote self-employment and Entrepreneurship culture among Youth and women

and to empower the youth with entrepreneurial skills. Through the cell the students are groomed

as job providers rather than job seekers.

VISION

The vision of the cell is to become a renowned center of excellence for entrepreneurship

development and actively mentoring and training aspiring entrepreneurs to realize their dreams.

MISSION

The mission of the cell is to develop an entrepreneurial spirit among youth and to provide

guidance for translating their latent ideas into viable enterprises.

1. ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP & TALENT DEVELOPMENT CELL



The main objectives of the cell are

To inculcate entrepreneurial culture among the students and rural unemployed youth in

Virudhunagar and create a passion for self employment

To assist entrepreneurs in identifying right business opportunities, sourcing finance,

identifying market, preparation of business plan.

To impart training in Entrepreneurial skills to rural unemployed women in areas like Food

processing, Fashion designing, Handi-crafts, Jewellery making, etc and make them self

employed.

To develop entrepreneurial & intrapreneurial traits like creativity, leadership, decision

making, analytical skills, etc. among students to be a successful entrepreneur.

To identify, motivate and assist budding entrepreneurs.

To provide consultancy to improve businesses undertaken by Self Help Groups.

To develop a resource centre of information on business opportunities, markets, financial

assistance and cases on successful entrepreneurs.

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE CELL



The core activities of the cell are as follows

To create an entrepreneurship culture by conducting Entrepreneurship Development

Programme.

Make tie ups with various Corporate engaged into Entrepreneurship development for

mentoring.

To act as an institutional mechanism for providing various services including information

to budding student entrepreneurs.

To conduct courses in Entrepreneurship for students and organizing skill development

training programme for unemployed youth.

To organize guest lecture delivered by successful entrepreneurs.

To arrange interaction with entrepreneurs and create a mentorship scheme for student

To arrange visits to industries for prospective entrepreneurs.

3. ACTIVITIES OF THE CELL



The activities of the entrepreneurship and Talent development cell focuses to develop

entrepreneurial skills and talent skills among the students. The various activities held under the

cell in this academic year 2012-13 were as follows:

4.1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

S.No Date Programmes

1. 20/7/2012 Inauguration of the cell and Inter Collegiate Seminar on “Women

Entrepreneurship Development”

2. 25/8/2012 Inauguration of „Expert‟s Talk‟ a fortnightly programme where

entrepreneurs and executives share their corporate experience to the

students.

3. 29/8/2012 to

31/8/2012

College Bazaar – A joint initiative by Govt. of Tamilnadu, Management

studies students of our college and Self Help Group to market the products

produced by SHG in colleges and promote them.

4. 25/9/2012 Inter Collegiate Seminar on “Innovative Business Ideas” &

Inter Collegiate Business plan Contest

5. 23/1/2013 Workshop on Entrepreneurial Skills in food processing Industry

(Nannari syrup and Biscuits making)

6. 6/2/2013 Workshop on Entrepreneurial Skills in food processing Industry

(Amla Squash and Spicy Biscuits making)

7. 25/2/2013 to

1/3/2013

„Vyapar‟ a trade fare organized to give a practical exposure to the

students in marketing practices.

4. ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED BY THE CELL IN 2012-2013



4.2 TALENT DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

S.No Date Programmes

1. 10/7/2012 Workshop on interview skills by the recruitment team of V.V.V & Sons

Edible oils ltd.

2. 20/9/2012 &

21/9/2012

A Personality Development Programme ‘BREAK THRU‟ for UG and

PG final year students conducted by Rotary Youth Leadership Awards.

3. 6/9/2012

to

19/10/2012

Aspirant Q", a placement oriented Communication skills training

programme for the final year MBA students by Beehive Communication

Club

4. 19/12/2012

to

11/3/2012

Communication skills development training Program for First year MBA

students by Beehive Communication Club

5. 9/4/2013 An Orientation Program on Group Discussion and Interview skills by

Beehive Communication Club.



The concept of Campus Company is the new initiative by the Entrepreneurship &

Talent Development Cell. Campus Company is started by the students of the

entrepreneurship development cell inside the college campus. The students take all the

responsibilities like procuring the raw material, producing the product, marketing the product

and maintaining financial accounts. The students made food products like Biscuits, Amla

squash and Nannari syrup under the brand name „SUVAI‟ and marketed the product within

the college among the students.

5. CAMPUS COMPANY

The Logo and the Tag line for the brand SUVAI



INAGURATION OF THE CELL & SEMINAR ON “WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT”

The Entrepreneurship & Talent Development Cell was inaugurated on this fine day

by Sri.T.T.Mathan, MBA, former secretary of our college. On that same day with the focus to

promote entrepreneurship among the women folks an inter collegiate and inter-disciplinary

seminar on “Women Entrepreneurship Development” was organized. The main motto of this

seminar is to inspire, motivate and guide the future budding women entrepreneurs. 206

Students from 17 colleges participated in that seminar.

The key speakers of the seminar were Sri.K.C.Gurusamy, Managing partner,

Kaycee Plasto pack, Sri.R.SivaSankaran, Assistant Director, DIC, Sri.E.Paulraj, Branch

Manager, TIIC, Smt.G.Uma Maheshwari Proprietor, Shreejaa paper cups and Selvi.S.Amutha

Shanthy, Thyagam, Annai Illam. This seminar acted as the knowledge treasure for students and

women who aspire to become the successful women entrepreneurs.

6. CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2012-2013

20 JULY



EXPERT’s TALK

In order to create mentorship from successful entrepreneurs and make students interact

with them a new fortnightly programme „Expert‟s Talk‟ was inaugurated, where

entrepreneurs and corporate executives share their business and corporate experience to the

students. Some of the Experts who participated in the programme were

Sri.Balamurgan Kalimuthu, National Service Manager, Revolution IT, Australia.

Sri.N.Mathivanan, Financial Head, Cholayil private limited, Chennai.

Sri.A.Shyamraj, Senior Systems Engineer, Infosys, Bangalore.

25 AUG



COLLEGE BAZZAR

College Bazaar – A joint initiative by Govt. of Tamilnadu, Management studies

ud students of our college and Self Help Group to market the products produced by SHG

in colleges and promote them. In order to promote the products produced by the Self Help

Group the Collectorate of Virudhunagar joint hands with the cell and organized a College

Bazaar in our college campus for 3 days. The college bazaar enabled the students to gain the

practical knowledge in marketing the products.

9 final year MBA Students were selected for a 6 months internship programme where the

MBA students promote the Self Help Groups by providing ideas in production, marketing and

product development.

29, 30

& 31

AUG



BREAK THRU – PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

A In order to develop intrapreneurial skills among students a two day Personality

devel development Programme ‘BREAK THRU‟ was organized for UG and PG final year

management studies students by Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. The students were trained in

good attitude building, positive thinking, leadership skills, goal setting, team skills, decision

making skill and motivational skills.

The key trainers of the programme were

Shri.V.R.Muthu, Chairman, VVV & Sons Edible Oils Ltd

Shri.P.N.PremKumar, International Trainer.

Dr.Samuel JK Abraham

Shri.K.C.Gurusamy, Kaycee plasto pack

Shri.Mr.M.Jaisinh, Industrialist

Shri.Mr.M.A.P.R.Krishnamoorthi

20 & 21

SEP



INTER COLLEGIATE SEMINAR ON “INNOVATIVE BUSINESS IDEAS” & INTER-COLLEGIATE BUSINESS PLAN CONTEST (IGNITE)

In order to motivate the students in identifying the right business opportunities

and to convert their business ideas to a viable business enterprise, an Inter-collegiate seminar on

“Innovative Business Idea” and a business plan contest was organized for the MBA students.

IGNITE was with the objective to spark the fire within the mind of the youth in knowing

about the various innovative business ideas and opportunity available to the aspiring

entrepreneurs. 41 MBA students from various colleges participated in the seminar the key

speakers were Thiru. V.R.Muthu, Chairman, V.V.V & Sons Edible oils Ltd and

Thiru KR. Gnanasambandan, CEO, Green (India) Laboratory, Madurai & Vice Chairman

TANSTIA (Madurai Region).

The Business Plan Contest Provided a massive platform for students to showcase their

innovations and to tread their first step on the exciting path of entrepreneurship and innovation.

8 teams participated in the Business plan Contest and the winners were from K.L.N college of

Engineering, Madurai

25

SEP



PLACEMENT ORIENTED COMMUNICATION TRAINNING jkfjgkjb kgkjk PROGRAMME

In the motive of excelling communication skills in the students, Aspirant Q", a

placement oriented Communication skills training programme is organized for the final year

MBA students by Beehive Communication Club. This programme developed self confidence

among the students in communicating fluently in English and helped the students in their

placement and career.

2012

SEP & OCT



WORKSHOP ON ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS IN FOOD PROCESSING . INDUSTRY

To impart training in Entrepreneurial skills, workshops on Biscuits making, Amla

Squash making and Nannari Syrup making were organized to the students of Entrepreneurship

Development Cell and other students.

23

JAN



VYAPAR-TRADE FAIR

A trade fair named 'VYAPAR' is organized in the college that exhibited a wide

assortment of things including novelties, gift items, student consumable, eatables etc. The fair

had 6 stalls which were open for 5 days. The students of the department of management studies

manned the stalls, managed sales, stock and finance and pulled this initiative to a great success.

25 to 28

FEB



The Entrepreneurship and Talent Development cell is in seek of fund in order to carry out the

activities effectively. Many Institutions fund EDC to promote entrepreneurship and one among

the institution is the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE). And a proposal in

seeking a fund of Rs. 5 lakh under the title”Promotion of Entrepreneurship among Rural

Women in Virudhunagar” is submitted to AICTE under the AQIS schemes.

The Entrepreneurship development & Talent Development cell has an advisory committee to

guide and support all activities of the cell. The advisory committee members are

S.No Advisory Member

1 Thiru. V.R.Muthu, Chairman, V.V.V & Sons Edible oils Limited, Virudhunagar.

2 Thiru KR. Gnanasambandan, CEO, Green (India) Laboratory, Madurai & Vice

Chairman TANSTIA (Madurai Region).

3 Thiru, K.C.Gurusamy, Managing Partner, Kaycee Plasto pack, Virudhunagar.

4 Tmty G.Uma Maheswari, Proprietor, Shreejaa paper cups, Madurai

8. ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE CELL

7. GRANTS APPLIED BY THE CELL



In the next academic year we are in the plan to organize various workshops on Crystal

Jewellery making, Homemade Chocolates making, Fur Toy making and Beautician Course for

the students, rural unemployed women and aspiring women entrepreneurs. This workshop would

facilitate them to equip themselves with the skills which will help them to start their own

business.

We also plan to extend the concept of Campus Company with more new products like

Chocolates and Crystal Jewells.

9. FUTURE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES OF THE CELL

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