ED Cell

About the EDC

Entrepreneurship Development Cell started its functioning from 1st January, 2008, with Sri G. Suresh Kumar, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as its Coordinator. Also an advisory body is constituted with some of the faculty members of the college as members to help the coordinator in effective functioning of the cell.

The objectives spelt for the Cell are:

1	To arrange Entrepreneurship Awareness Programmes (EAPs) periodically to the Third and Final year students of GPREC in collaboration with the concerned organizations.
2	To disseminate the information gathered, about the procedure of setting up of enterprises, and financial help available, to the students of the college.
3	To provide the information about some viable projects to the interested students.
4   5	To plan any other program that will be of use to the budding entrepreneurs, fresh from the college. Encouraging students of the college to think for innovative business/ product ideas through Innovations Club.In accordance with the objectives set as above, the cell has been active in organizing various programs to promote entrepreneurship with advises and help of the advisory body.

The members of Advisory body at present are:

1. Dr. R.S. Chalapathi , Professor of Practice, Mech. Engg. – CEO, GPREC, IIC
2. Dr. D.R. Srinivas, Assoc. Professor of ECE. – CONVENER
3. Sri G. Suresh Kumar, Assoc. Professor of Mech. Engg. – Co-CONVENER
4. Smt C. D.L.N. Prasunna, Asst. Professor of CSE – MEMBER
5. Smt B. Varalakshmi, Asst. Professor of ECS – MEMBER
6. Dr. D.V. Srihari Babu, Assoc. Professor of ECE – MEMBER
7. Dr. B. Urmila, Asst. Professor of EEE – MEMBER

Entrepreneurship Awareness Programs (EAPs) are organized to the students of the college in association with District Industries Center ( DIC ), and Andhra Pradesh Industrial and Technical Consultancy ( APITCO ), Kurnool, periodically. Besides, Entrepreneurship Development is offered as an open elective for the students in their curriculum, which is opt by students of some departments.

MILE STONES CROSSED BY EDC IN ITS JOURNEY SO FAR:

	An Innovations Club has been active under EDC since 15 / 02 / 2012
	AICTE has sanctioned Rs. 5,00,000/- under EDC scheme to GPREC, out of which, Rs. 3,00,000/- has been released.
	The EDC has signed an MOU with DIC, Kurnool, for the cause of Entrepreneurship Development.

Details of  Startups (2019 – 2023)

S.No	Name of the Start-up	Name of the Owner	Registered Under	Registration No
1	Creative Groups, Bangalore	A.Nageswara Rao	Company Registered Under GOI	29AHRPN8888P32ZM
2	VN Technologies, Kurnool	V N Pavan Kumar (Alumni) 149X1A04H2	Company Registered Under GOI	37DSDPK1554H1ZQ
3	Sigmalytics, Hyderabad	Sri Kishore Reddy	Company Registered Under GOI	Z72292018PTC109186
4	Wanabuy India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad	Srinivasa Reddy	Company Registered Under GOI	U722900AP2018PTC109186
5	Acorn Embedded systems Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad	G.Prem Chand	Company Registered Under GOI	56000PU5700N1Z6Z
6	The Web blinders,Kurnool	Dinesh Uppara Chinna Maddileti	Company Registered Under GOI	37ABGPU5700N1Z6
7	Habib IT Solutions, Hyderbad	S.Habibullah 149x1A0556	Company Registered Under GOI	U722900AP2018PTC109186
8	Brew-n-Fill (III B.Tech CSB Student)	Bilwa Sai Eswar III CSBS Student 219X5A2969	FSAAI	License No 10123012000052
9	CIT AppServices Pvt.Ltd	C.Swarnakanth	Company Registered Under GOI	U62013AP2023PTC113414

Academic Year 2018-19

S. No.	Student/Alumnus Name	Roll Number	Year of Passing	Startup Name
1	Kalak Vimal Kumar	179X5A03K3	2019	Flicknexus ( under development with the support of Angaros)

Academic Year 2017-18

S. No.	Student/Alumnus Name	Roll Number	Year of Passing	Startup Name
1	Paramesh, Lakshmi Pathy, Sudarsan	149X1A0505, 149X1A05G3, 149X1A03C6	2018	Zestihub (www.zestihub.com)

Academic Year 2016-17

S. No.	Student/Alumnus Name	Roll Number	Year of Passing	Startup Name
1	CH. Venkatesh	139X1A0527	2017	VASJO INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
2	Irfan Basha	139X1A0199	2017	Haysky Technologies (www.haysky.com)

Academic Year 2015-16

S. No.	Student/Alumnus Name	Roll Number	Year of Passing	Startup Name
1	G. Sai Krishna	129X1A0553	2016	FILMIPLEX
2	G. Sai Krishna A. Prathap	129X1A0553 129X1A0504	2016 2016	FLYING PICS

 Academic Year 2012-13

S. No.	Student/Alumnus Name	Roll Number	Year of Passing	Startup Name
1	O. Lokeswara  Reddy	20095059	2013	Ajax Self loading mobile concrete mixer Supplier
2	K. Shankar	20091126L	2013	GOOGIE

ACTIVITIES OF THE CELL SINCE ITS INCEPTION:

Entrepreneurship Development Cell, since its inception in the year 2008, is continuing its activities.

• Have an MoU with Curl Vee Techno Labs
• Entrepreneurship Motivation classes to students of GPREC are organized by EDC from time to time.
• Innovative ideas are encouraged, shared and discussed in Innovation Club meetings under EDC.
• Guest lectures are organized by speakers and successful entrepreneurs from various institutions and organizations like District Industries Center, APITCO, and Bankers.

The following are the activities carried out by CIE from Jan 2023 to till date:

S No	Name of the Event/Activity	Date	No of Participants	Resource Person
1	“Idea Hunt” Competion	4/1/2023	55	–
2	“Entreprenership Skill,Attitude& Behaviourial Development”	18/1/23	56	Sri P.L.Achyuth Kumar Associate Manager(Performance) OYO International Sri Bala Siva Deputy Manager(Technical) Kotak Mahindra
3	“Entrepreneurship Outreach Program”  at Saraswathi Sishu Mandir,GPREC Campus, Kurnool.	25/1/2023	30	—
4	Motivational Session by Successful Entrepreneur	1/2/23	30	Sri M.Raymond (Alumnus of GPREC) Managing Director,ARES Engineering Traders Hyderabad
5	Innovative Idea contest (Prelimnary Round)	9/2/23	100
6	Innovative Idea contest (Grand Finale)	20/2/23	84	Sri S Hymanand (GPREC Alumnus Belonging to 1987-91)
7	Two day workshop on “Mentor Development Program”	27-28 Feb 2023	29	Sri Pradeep Kulkari Smt Parvathi Bharath Yuva Shakthi Trust  New Delhi
8	Community Connect	21/4/23	400	Smt. M.Geetha Sree Chief Trainer ,ILO
9	Project Expo ( Technolegica 2.0)	29/4/23	100	—
10	Bootcamp on Drone Technologies in Association with IIIT-DM Kurnool	3/7/23 to 7/7/23	116	Dr K Krishna Naik Dr Eswaramoorthi Dr K Satya Kumar Faculty of IIIT-DM Kurnool
11	Smart India Hackathon (Internal)	27/9/23	288
12	Two day workshop on Art of Pitching through impactful video making for Innovators and Entrepreneurs	26/10/23 &27/10/23	300	In Association with Vishnu Institute of Technology,Bhimavaram
13	One Day workshop on Design Thinking	28/10/23	250	Dr R.S. Chalapathi CEO,GPREC –IIC Kurnool
14	XR Fusion Hackathon	1st -4th April 2023	240	XR Monk Inc. Hyderabad

The following are the activities carried out by CIE from Jan 2022 -23

 

S No	Name of the Event/Activity	Date	No of Participants	Resource Person
1	AICTE Mentee-Mentor Program	02/03/2022	15	Dr S.V Srikesh IIC Director,KL University,Vijayawada
2	Entrepreneur Ideas and Frame works	16/03/2022	40	Sri Habibullah Founder & CEO of Habib IT Solutions,Hyderabad
3	Authentic Approach towards the Entrepreneurial Journey	23/03/2022	40	Mr.Gaurav Sharma CEO and Founder at “Thank You”
4	Smart India Hackathon	28/03/2022	20	—
	IPR Awareness Program	13/06/2022	55	Ms Lavanya Madduri (An Official Trainer at NIPAM),Chennai
5	Alumni Funding support and Idea Generation	06/08/2022	60	Dr M.Siva Sankar Reddy Technology Leader and Innovator,USA
6	NASA Space Apps Internal Hackathon ( Bootcamp)	17th and 18th August,2022	500	Katapally Saikiran CEO,SUMVN,Hyderabad
7	NASA Space Apps Internal Hackathon	26th and 27th August,2022	134	Katapally Saikiran CEO,SUMVN,Hyderabad
8	Running an Enterprise Vs Being an employee	19-10-2022
9	3-Day Training Program on “Generate Your Business Ideas”	19/10/2022 to 21/10/2022	36	Mrs M.Geetha Sree and Mr G.Sinivasulu,ILO
10	COGNIZOQUEST .	26/10/2022
11	“Entrepreneurship as a Career Opportunity	09/11/2022		Mr G.Sinivasulu,ILO
12	Shark Tanks	16/11/2022
13	‘Idea to Incubation’	30 /11/ 2022		Mrs M.Geetha Sree
14	“Entrepreneurship and Innovation as a Career Opportunity”	7/12/2022	105	Ravi Prakash Reddy Yerasi ( CEO – Game On Multi-sport Arena, Kurnool.)
15	“Problem Solving and Ideation” workshop	14/12/2022	60	Dr. G. Suresh Kumar Associate Professor in ME,GPREC,Kurnool
16	“IPR AWARENESS PROGRAM”(Online)	16/12/2022	80	Shri . Shubham Harsh Singh , Examiner of Patents & Designs (Gr. ‘A’ Gazetted), The Patent Office, Kolkata, DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India
17	“Technology Trends – New Era Entrepreneurs” .	21/12/2022	200	Moses Muppasani Co-Founder – Keyboor (A Social and Professional Network Platform that enables eLearning and job hunting.)

 

2018-19

As part of Induction program to I B.Tech. students admitted during 2018-19, the Co-ordinator of EDC has explained about the facilities available and services being offered by EDC to students of GPREC to shape their Entrepreneurial careers. Besides

1. 1. A guest lecture on “Innovation and Entrepreneurship as career option” was taken by Sri Ashish Malve and his team to ME students on 21 July 2018 during 8. 30 AM – 10.-30 AM.
   2. During 11 AM – 1 PM, on the same day (21/07/2018), same program was conducted for CE students by the same speakers.
   3. During 2 PM – 4 PM, on the same day (21/07/2018), same program was conducted for CSE students by the same speakers.
   4. On 22 July, 2018, during 8. 30 AM – 10. 30 AM, a motivation class on Entrepreneurship was extended to EEE students of I B. Tech., by Mr. Mukeshwar of III CSE.
   5. On 22 July, 2018, during 11. 00 AM – 12. 00 PM, a motivation class on Entrepreneurship was extended to ECE students of I B. Tech. by Mr. Mukeshwar of III CSE
   6. An interaction session was organized to I B. tech. students of ECE with the founders of FAST CHEF startup (an online food orders receiving and delivery service unit operating in Kurnool city). They have explained the difficulties and hardships they have faced.
   7. An idea generation program was organized by EDC in association with Angaros on 17 September, 2018 in seminar gallery I. About 78 students participated in this program. Groups of about 8-10 students were formed and asked to discuss about their idea for 15 minutes. Then they were given chance to present their idea before the other teams. A purposeful question and answers sessions went on and students got a fair idea about idea generation.
   8. Sparkle 2K18 has been organized during 8-9 October, 2018, in which a total of 43 teams enrolled and a shortlist of 14 teams has been arrived at through filtering tests. Best three teams were awarded cash prizes of Rs 10,000/-, Rs 7,500/-, and Rs. 5000/- respectively.
   9. A freshmen orientation is organized to freshers by volunteers of EDC on 10^th October, 2018. 108 students were present. Volunteers explained about the functioning of EDC and voluntary work possible, working with EDC.
   10. Coordinator of EDC, Dr. G. Suresh Kumar has participated in two weeks National Faculty Development Programme on “How to teach students to adopt Entrepreneurship as Career” organized by EDII (Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India), Ahmedabad , supported by NSTEDB, Department of Science and Technology during 17 – 28 December, 2018.

 

2	To identify potential students at II year B. Tech. level who has flair towards entrepreneurial careers, and focus to nurture them to start an enterprise of their own after completion of their graduation.
3	To bring successful entrepreneurs to the campus and arrange interactions for the students with them so that the students can have pragmatic view of entrepreneurship.
4	To interact with various Government and private agencies that are working for the cause of Entrepreneurship Development, and get the information about possible help by them to the budding technocrats. The same will be kept with and disseminated among the interested students of the college.
5	To promote Innovative thinking for business ideas among students of GPREC so as to help the society with better products / services.