Guwahati: Union Minister of State, MSME, Giriraj Singh, inaugurated the new Corporate Social Respon-sibility Centre ‘the CSR hub’ at the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) at Lalmati, Guwahati on Sunday .This is the only dedicated centre for CSR in the region and shall cater to all CSR activities of corporate, organisation and other establishment.
While interacting with the officials of IIE, Giriraj Singh appreciated the effort made by the Institute in the arena of imparting quality training, implementing area approach programmes and in promoting
entrepreneurship among the youths of the entire North East Region. He laid emphasis on development of resource based sectors like food processing, sericulture and handloom & handicraft of the region where IIE can play a catalytic role in channelizing the product in National and International market.
Manoj Kr Das, Director, IIE while highlighting the future road map of the Institute reiterated that the Institute is going to become a coordination centre for entire promotional and support Institute of North Eastern Region through a proposed Investor Club and Entrepreneurial Haat. He also stressed on the need of taking up innovative programmes like one village one product model in the region for promoting rural entrepreneurship.
Shri Das also stated that corporates of the region can now access IIE’s CSR Hub for their corporate social work.
Dr. Sriparna B. Baruah, Head, CSLP, IIE mentioned that that the Institute has signed an MoU with Oil India Limited for their CSR project has been working with OIL for the past one year in several areas of entrepreneurship and skill based training, solar solution and is also taking up livelihood cluster projects for OIL very soon.
Under CSR activities of IIFCL (India Infrastructure Finance Corporation Limited), IIE has tied up with NSTFDC (National Schedule Tribe Finance Development Corporation) to take up one handloom project for each of the eight state of NE.
