Goenka College of Commerce & Business Administration
Accredited NAAC A
210, Bepin Behari Ganguly Street, Kolkata, West Bengal 700012

Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell of the College provides a perception of entrepreneurship among the students. Entrepreneurship is the future of the Indian Economy.

At the present economic scenario we want to spread a slogan
“Don’t be a job seeker, try to be a job provider”

Last ten years we have been involving students to prepare project in Entrepreneurship development. We have prepared our students to take part in different Entrepreneurship Development competition e.g. International Competition organized by IIM Kolkata, All India Entrepreneurship Development Competition by I-Create Inc, USA, IIT Khargapur, All India Entrepreneurship Development Competition by NFTE University, USA, and also other competitions organized by Entrepreneurship Development cell of the St. Xavier’s College Kolkata and other colleges and institutions. Our students scored marvelous.

In 2001 we had sent four of our students- Vidisha Chatterjee, Priyanka Saha, Subrajeet Basu and Sandip Das in I-Create Business Plan Competition and they scored marvelously and all of them were placed in the top grade.

In 2002 we had sent five teams consisting of 42 of our students for the world wide Business Plan competition I2i-2002 organised by IIM,Kolkata. They were very much congratulated by the organisesrs.

In 2005 our student Saipayan Dutta marked a remarkable result at St. Xavier’s College at the EDP competition

In 2006 we had sent four of our students Anirban Chattaraj, Debraj Hazra ,Madhuban Mukherjee and Saipayan Dutta at the exclusive HR Mela Salaam Manager organised by IIT, Khargapur and they scored brilliant result.

In 2006 we had sent 16(sixteen) of our students for I-Create – NFTE , USA ,National Business Plan Competition. At that competition one of our second year student Tinny Roy won the all India first prize organized by NFTE University , USA and she had been invited by the university to visit USA and received her award at New York in April 2007.

We believe this cell will spread it’s slogan to students “Don’t be a job seeker, try to be a job provider“

In the year 2007 this cell had had provided all first year day students with forty hours of curriculum which was required for getting entry at Merrill-Lynch I-Create-NFTE(USA) Entrepreneurship(Mine) Business Plan Competition and they got certificates.

We send sixteen students for, National Business Plan competition organized by Merrilinch NFTE , USA . One of our students Anneswa Roy stood second in Eastern India in that Business Plan Competition.

In 2008 this cell had had provided all first year day students with forty hours of curriculum which was required for getting entry at Merrill-Lynch I-Create-NFTE(USA) Entrepreneurship(Mine) Business Plan Competition and they got certificates.

For this competition 18 students sent their draft business plan out of which five students have been selected for Eastern India Regional competition. One of our students Bidisha Bose stood fourth in Eastern India in that Business Plan Competition.