HRD Minister Smriti Irani ask IIT Students to "Start up and Stand up".

Updated on: Monday, September 14, 2015

IIT Exhorting IIT students to take advantage of the "Start Up India, Stand Up India" scheme, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani said qualified engineers need to take up entrepreneurship on the basis of innovative ideas acquired in the premier institute.

"I am sure that you are aware about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for Start Up India. IIT is known to encourage new ideas, innovations and converge them with good business plan," HRD Minister Smriti Irani said at the 4th convocation ceremony of Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar held in its permanent campus at Argul.

Stating that the Centre's Mudra Bank Yojana provides funding to do business from Rs 50,000 up to Rs 10 lakh without any collateral security, the HRD Minister Smriti Irani said a new business opportunity has been created in the country and IIT students to take advantage of the available opportunities.

"If there are industrious students among you, I request you to start up and stand up now," Irani said adding that IIT always lay emphasis on academic excellence and innovation.

Asking technical students to undertake new ventures with innovative programme, the HRD Minister Smriti Irani said they could choose their own path of dream with a little bit of imagination.

HRD Minister Smriti Irani also lauded the students of IIT Bhubaneswar for adopting two nearby villages and enabling science to reach at the door steps of villagers.

At the 4th convocation function, HRD Minister Smriti Irani conferred President of India's gold medal to Sushant Sachan, a mechanical engineering student of B.Tech, Director's gold medal to Pratik Nayak, a civil engineering student of M. Tech and Anudeep Nain, a student of Mathematics at the institute. The endowment awards went to five students of different streams of the institute.

HRD Minister Smriti Irani ask IIT Students to "Start up and Stand up".

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