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Awards & Recognition...
Hon'ble President
Smt. Droupadi Murmu
conferring the award on
Dr. Amit Kumar Dwivedi.
EDII honoured with the Na onal Teachers’ Award 2025 in the award category for
HEIs & Polytechnic Ins tutes.
“ M y h e a r t i e s t
congratulations, Dr.
Amit Dwivedi, on
being recognized
by this prestigious
award. My best
wishes to him for
m a k i n g r i c h
Shri Rakesh Sharma
contributions to
President-EDII and
MD & CEO
entrepreneurship
e d u c a t i o n .
IDBI Bank Ltd.
Hon'ble President Smt. Droupadi Murmu
Congratulations to
conferring the award on
EDII as well.”
Dr. Amit Kumar Dwivedi.
Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the award winners. (2nd Row, 5th from R)
Dr. Amit Kumar Dwivedi, becomes a part of this landmark moment.
Dr. Amit Kumar Dwivedi,Professor & Director, Dept. of Government Projects, EDII honoured with the
Na onal Teachers’ Award 2025 in the award category for HEIs & Polytechnic Ins tutes.
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Most developing countries stepped forth to explore setting up of ED Centres Dr. Amit Kumar Dwivedi,Professor & Director, Dept. of Government Projects, Congratulatory Message
as the proposition particularly assumed importance for them amidst rising
unemployment levels, the need to tap latent talent and harness local resources Awards & Recognition...
to support New Enterprise Creation. EDII accepted the challenge. The
Institute initially facilitated setting up of 12 state level ED institutes/centres
within the country, and gradually went on to include more states namely;
Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Puducherry, among several others in the
process. 6 international affiliates of EDII came about in Cambodia, Lao-PDR,
Myanmar, Vietnam, Rwanda and Uzbekistan. Hearteningly, this once again
proved the idea of augmenting the supply of entrepreneurs through education,
D r. A m i t K u m a r
training and business advisory services. Having witnessed this, several Indian
Dwivedi, Professor &
states are today seeking to institutionalize sustainable entrepreneurship Director, Dept. of
development. After initiating work in Goa, Puducherry, Uttarakhand and Government Projects,
Chhattisgarh, EDII recently began talks with the Mizoram Government. The EDII was honoured
Mizoram- Entrepreneurship Development Centre could be the next big thing, with the Na onal
creating new, tech-savvy, resilient entrepreneurs. Teachers’ Award
2025 in the award
category for HEIs &
EDII's interaction with State Governments has reaffirmed faith of policy
Polytechnic Ins tutes.
makers in 'entrepreneurship' as a valuable instrument for economic
empowerment. Much credit goes to policy-led initiatives of the Government Hon'ble President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu
of India and almost all State Governments, over the last decade. conferring the award on Dr. Amit Kumar Dwivedi.
An exclusive Centre devoted to Entrepreneurship Development works
“My heartiest congratulations to Dr. Amit Dwivedi, on being recognized by this prestigious award. My best
towards identifying entrepreneurial potential and developing it to facilitate wishes to him for making rich contributions to entrepreneurship education. Congratulations to EDII as well.”
setting up of new ventures. This addresses the needs of a large part of the - Shri Rakesh Sharma, President-EDII and MD & CEO, IDBI Bank Ltd.
population which is otherwise, not in a position to pursue an entrepreneurial
career due to a variety of constraints such as information asymmetry, lack of
motivation & skills, knowledge gaps or fear of failure. The Centre sows seeds
of entrepreneurship at an early stage in the life of young women and men, September 17, 2025: EDII was honored for accomplishing the goals of the Goa State
thereby training them and motivating them to consider self-employment and Rural Livelihood Mission under the project Start-up Village Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship as a preferred career. The Centre also contributes Programme (SVEP). The award was presented by Shri Pramod Sawant, Hon’ble Chief
Minister of Goa.
significantly to improving the health of existing enterprises.
Thus, creating, nurturing and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem in
India and abroad for germination, sustenance and growth of enterprises, is
one of the primary mandates of EDII. The Institute is committed to opening a
path of sustained growth by institutionalizing entrepreneurship and floating
conducive support system, far and wide.

- Sunil Shukla

Editorial Board
Editor (Right) Dr. Rajesh Gupta, Associate Professor, EDII and (Left) Dr. Abdul Razak, Associate Faculty, EDII,
Ms. Julie Shah | Dr. Raman Gujral | Dr. Satya Ranjan Acharya
Dr. Sunil Shukla receiving the award on behalf of EDII from (Centre) Shri Pramod Sawant, Hon’ble Chief Minister of
Dr. Piyush Sinha | Mr. Ganapathi Batthini | Ms. Harmeet Dawar

Goa. The event was attended by Ministers, Members of Parliament, Chief Secretary and other
distinguished dignitaries during the Seva Pakhwada felicitation programme.
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