Athawale inaugurates incubation centre at NEHU

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaAugust 28, 2019

SHILLONG: Union Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, Ramdas Athawale today inaugurated the ‘Incubation Centre’ at North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong in the presence of Minister of Art and Culture, Government of Meghalaya Shri AL Hek and Vice-Chancellor of NEHU Prof SK Srivastava.

The Union Minister acknowledged the beautiful landscape and pristine climate of Meghalaya, and said that such natural gifts should be supplemented with development of industries, universities and skill development centre so that the youths of the region can excel at par with the rest of the country.

Such ‘Incubation Centre’ will benefit people in developing their entrepreneurial skills and help generate and provide employment opportunities for a lot of individuals, he added.

The concept of Incubation Centre is drawn from the vision of Prime Minister’s “Self-efficiency in country’s products under Make in India” to provide an ecosystem for start-ups to offer guidance, mentoring, physical space and network for funding and value based collaboration for incubation of novel ideas.

Meanwhile, AL Hek, said that the Incubation Centre will meet the needs of young minds of the State and neighbouring regions. He added that demand driven projects which are applicable to the State should be incorporated by the Centre which will benefit the people.

The Incubation Centre will offer active incubation support to the new proposed ventures to become independent and self-supporting over the period. The centre will also help provide technical knowhow to these ventures to become efficient, competent models so that they become eligible for formal funding support from donor, philanthropists, network partners and investors.