Bhopal,
In order to encourage self employment among the students, Barkatullah University (BU) will establish incubation centre in the campus. Talking about the proposed incubation center, Professors said such kind of center would be very helpful for students to set up their own venture and entrepreneurship. At present RGPV and MANIT both institutes are working on the same theme. Few years back, RGPV set up skill development of students based on the same incubation theme where students are getting a marketing platform for innovating ideas. The university also provisioned fund of Rs 10 crore for the project.
In the first stage, university will spend about Rs 25 lakh. BU Vice Chancellor RJ Rao has assigned five senior faculties as in-charge of the project and asked them to bring this incubation center till operational mode. There is target to start the incubation center with the new academic session 2019-20. The university has identified five thousand square feet of area to set up the center. In this center students will be trained up for the small and medium enterprises as well as their own start up. Five industrial companies and five banks will be invited to be partner for the set up of incubation center. Several agencies providing training in several sectors would be helping students for the skill development.