IIM-T to offer free consultancy through incubation centre
As a way of rendering corporate responsibility, Indian
Institute of Management – Tiruchi (IIM-T) has plans to offer free
consultancy through its proposed incubation centre once it moves into
permanent campus along the Tiruchi-Thanjavur National Highway.
In
the process of providing free consultancy in the areas of finance,
branding, human resource management and marketing, the incubation centre
will accord an economic thrust to the region, IIM-T Director Prafulla
Agnihotri said. The district administration, he said, was quite
forthcoming to the proposal for starting the incubation centre in the
vicinity of the permanent campus.
“The incubation
centre will be akin to OPD (Outpatient Department) in hospitals.
Prospective entrepreneurs will be provided space to operate at a very
nominal cost and centralised facilities will be made available free of
cost. Even after they move out after establishing their businesses, the
incubation centre will continue to render hand-holding support,”
Prof.Agnihotri said, advocating entrepreneurship in manufacturing sector
for growth of the regional economy. Faculties will visit the incubation
centre on a daily basis and render free consultancy for small and
medium enterprises.
The Institute, he said, was open
to having a tie up with the National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB)
and provide guidance on feasibility of agro processing businesses.
Likewise, the scope for value addition to the cashew fruits cultivated
in large quantities in neighbouring districts of Ariyalur and Pudukottai
will be explored. The Cargo Complex at the Tiruchi Airport will help in
giving the region an economic thrust.
Only through
economic development can the region attract better domestic air
connectivity. Leave alone the absence of connectivity to cities such as
Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai, the timing of the first flight to Chennai
is also disadvantageous as people from Tiruchi can reach the destination
only in the latter part of the day.
The airlines
cannot be faulted for the situation as they cannot operate in the
absence of load. Economic development was the only way for increasing
patronage for air travel, he said.
The positive
factors like good road connectivity between Chennai and Tiruchi and
availability of sunlight must be utilised well by way of starting
Special Economic Zones and generating solar power. When Gujarat could
install solar panels on the Narmada canal with the twin purposes of
generating power and preventing water evaporation, there was no reason
why Tamil Nadu cannot replicate the same over the Cauvery. If not power
surplus, there was enormous scope for Tamil Nadu to be a
power-sufficient State.
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