Source Name: Tata Group
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The Fifth Edition of Tata Social Enterprise Challenge Kicks-Off
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Kolkata, West Bengal, India
The Tata group, today, announced the commencement of the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2016-17, a joint initiative with the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) to find India’s most promising early-stage social enterprises. The endeavor of the challenge is to create an ecosystem for social entrepreneurship and encourage sustainable, scalable and measurable social impact.
Teams who either have an early stage venture (not older than 3 years) or a promising idea with a plan, that can create sustainable social impact in India, can submit their business plans online, by logging onto www.tatasechallenge.org. Impact Proposals (detailed Business Plans) are invited in the areas of agriculture, food and dairy, healthcare, water and sanitation, technology and development, education & skills development, housing, handicrafts, energy and micro finance / financial inclusion. The ventures will be judged on three parameters - Business Model, Social Impact and Sustainability.
The last day to submit the Impact Proposal (business plan) online is October 11, 2016. The Challenge also invites the general public to nominate, through the initiative’s website, social enterprises they know who fit the eligibility criteria.
Mr. Atul Agrawal, Sr. Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Tata Services says, “It gives me immense pleasure to announce the launch of the fifth edition of the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge, which has become a platform that encourages the incredibly enthusiastic population of our nation to thrive in the space of social entrepreneurship. Growing every year, the initiative has helped bring to the limelight social entrepreneurs, as well as, with expert partners, provided social start-ups an eco-system and mentoring about business techniques and private sector approaches to find solutions to social, cultural or environmental problems.”
Prof. Ashok Banerjee, Director IIM Calcutta Innovation Park says, “This year's TSEC will be even bigger with encouraging participation of other partners who would like to see social entrepreneurship at its best. We are looking for, in this episode of TSEC, social enterprises who are ready to scale up and create impact at the national level. There are funding opportunities for deserving participants.”
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