October 2010, India woke up to innovation, to ideation and to entrepreneurship, for E-Cell launched its pan-India initiative, the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive (EAD) 2010, a mammoth initiative of reaching out to the collegiate fraternity of 15 cities across India. Initiated in 2009, covering 10 cities in 10 days, the EAD snowballed into a phenomenon in 2010 stretching out to 15 different cities in a period of 15 days with a footfall of 8000 college students.
Starting on 9th October at Patna, graced by the august presence of Irfan Alam, Gyanesh Pandey and K.P. Keshri, we travelled on to Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Pune, Noida, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Jamshedpur and concluding at our home-camp, Kharagpur. In each of these cities, a workshop, termed Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp (EAC) by an eminent personality was organized, in association with a prominent college of the city. Everywhere that EAD visited, it left in its wake a group of students inspired to startup on their own, and dispelled various myths about entrepreneurship that students today have.
This has created an excellent network of our organization and various other colleges and organizations across India, besides generating a huge media buzz for the various events we conduct. EAD 2010 not just created awareness, but highlighted and helped improve the existing entrepreneurial infrastructure in the regions where it was conducted.
With a cognizant crowd of 8000 students, 150 participating colleges, and extensive media coverage throughout the nation, the EAD has everything a sponsor looks for. We ensured our sponsors get focused branding and maximum publicity during the events as promised. That's why they keep coming back every year.
The spark of hope ignited by EADs 2009 and 2010 is objected to be developed into a new flame of passion which will forge the new India - an empowered India. This is what we aim by EAD 2011 this year. To be conducted over 20 cities across the country in a totally new format in the metro cities, we aspire to churn out more entrepreneurs from the Indian youth.
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