Event Description

Dr Mousumi Mahanta gave an overview on Entrepreneurship and said that 70% of its work had to be stopped during the covid- 19 and the pandemic affected globally. Dr Mahanta stated the topic the speakers were going to speak i.e. on entrepreneurship and women.

The first speaker,Manoj K Das, talked about the disruptive situation during pandemic. Mr Das said thaat the needs have to be limited due to the situation. Shopping malls,restaurants etc. everything is disrupted. Economy is shrinking. Slowly all industries are coping up. Telephone, internet industries are growing. But lots of jobs are in loss affecting the family lives. Women those who work as bread winner and homemaker are in bad situation. Mr Das mentioned about shubhra devi as a successful woman entrepreneur. Mr Das said that Women in North East are empowered such as for example Meghalaya and there is no discrimination. He emphasized that north east should think for farming, multi farming, fish farming during this situation. He highlights the rate of different imported products from outside states. The speaker said that our economy is mostly from outside, most items comes from outside like wheat based products, clothes etc. He said that Assam has future in handlooms, backyard farming, and poultry. Japan and other countries are looking from Assam in agricultural products. He encouraged the people to plant medicinal and other valuable plants. He talked about bel metal industry in Assam which is about more than 2000 years old. Local raw materials like eri, bamboo are of great used and handicrafts, bamboo products piggery have high entrepreneur potential. There are government schemes for women who want to start up as entrepreneurs. The speaker gave some ideas on how women can engage in banana products, Jackfruit food items. Age old silk and mulberry plantation in Assam, muga silk worm, cattle industry, Asiatic buffalo milk products which is rich should be brought in and revived.

The speaker encouraged that education should be linked with entrepreneurship as skill development programmes have been neglected .They have education but no skill. The speaker at last ended with a message that children should be taught how to face failure.