E-Cell Members save water

Wastage of water in the form of pipeline breakage /leakage is a common problem in India to which no one pays any heed. A similar scenario was seen on 25th January 2010, in Jaipur at JDA market, when the water was flowing freely on road and the people especially the shop owners being aware, didn’t make any efforts to save water. But one of our E-cell members, Heena Garg took the immediate initiative and called the Plumber for the repair work. That member interacted with the people there and spread the awareness about water conservation and then even convinced the shop owners for the payment. The payment was given to plumber by contribution from all the shopkeepers.

IDP Education interacts with TOPAZ

On 18th January, 2010 IDP Education India Pvt Ltd which is located in New Delhi which has over 50% by Australian Universities and is co owner of the IELTS conducted a seminar on “Changing trends of Education in Entrepreneurship”, Over 500 students participated in the same. They also conducted a campus recruitment drive and many of our students were selected in the process. The seminar which they conducted was an enriching experience for the students. They enlightened about the various study prospects in Australia and also gave entrepreneurship ideas for budding entrepreneurs.
IDP is an global organisation which provides various services to students who want to study in Australia. The services include:
• Counselling
• Admission and Application processing
• Visa processing
• Pre-departure
• Staying in touch and beyond

IDP interacted with TOPAZ members and that experience proved helpful for the E-Cell of SKIT and for the E-Week.

Ex-Chief Minister "Vasundhara Raje" greets TOPAZ

Water is life-and as above, this message needs to go out to everyone. We will make India of our choice –but without the basic necessitates -?Save water!!
-Vasundhara Raje

Water is becoming scarce all over the world specially clean drinking water-so this is a very important campaign.
-Kishwar Desai(Jaipur)

Spread the virus of education –which would make a healthy education environment and keep people aware.

-Pratham (NGO)

Our biggest asset is our people and their biggest deficiency is education. Even the educated ones are not properly educated. So our biggest challenge is to educate our children.It is non-negotiable and then there is no stopping.
-Bobby Bedi(Film maker,Jaipur)


Health is a global concern for all of us-not just curing the disease but preventing it.
-Vasundhara Raje


Lets conserve more energy-use the power of sun-put off lights/fans/appliances when not needed.
-Vidya Devi

Signature Campaign For E-week-2010

The members of our E-cell topaz went to literarture festival on 21st-25th January for a signature campaign.The signature campaign was
to make the audience aware of the E-Week-2010 and make people aware of the health improvement,education,water and energy conservation.
The event catered to a wide number of audience which included many people ranging from school kids to big beaurocrats.Not just from Indians foreign nationals were also present there.
Among the famous personalities whom we contacted were Bina Kak(Tourism Minister for Rajasthan), Vasundhara Raje(Ex-C.M Rajasthan) and Om Puri(Notable film actor).

India's Favourite English Author meets TOPAZ

It was the proud moment for the members of our E-cell who went to the
5th Literature Festival at Diggi Palace, Jaipur which was held from
21st-25th January, 2010 as a part of promotional activity for E-Week-2010.
The members met Chetan Bhagat and explained him about TOPAZ and its working.
He gave us best wishes for the event and also congratulated us on our efforts.
The members of the E-cell were quite thrilled to be appreciated by Chetan Bhagat
He also gave his various inputs for the improvement and better functioning of the E-cell.

TOPAZ celebrates E-Week

TOPAZ (Tactics. To. Pursue. Ambient. Zeal) which is the entrepreneurship development cell of SKIT is once again celebrating the Spirit of Entrepreneurship in a week long campaign to search opportunities in India. This event is conducted by N.E.N and is held by the associated institutes every year. Last year too SKIT was the National Runner Up.
This year the theme of the contest is “India Opportunities- Within” which is comprised of many sub themes such as health, education, water and energy conservation etc.
The E-Week TOPAZ will be conducting many programs which include Start-Up showcase, Experts panel discussion, Talk show; Motivational talks with successful entrepreneurs, Business plan presentations, Idea Generation on opportunities, Debate competition, Public Awareness campaigns and many more.
Topaz is a students’ organization which promotes in developing Entrepreneurial skills among students through its programs, courses, activities and awareness campaigns. It works in affiliation with National Entrepreneurship Network (N.E.N) towards its goal of inspiring and supporting the student fraternity India’s next generation of entrepreneurs.

The varsatile actor "OM Puri" meets TOPAZ

It was the proud moment for the members of our E-cell who went to the
5th Literature Festival at Diggi Palace, Jaipur which was held from
21st-25th January, 2010 as a part of promotional activity for E-Week-2010.
The members met Om Puri and explained him about TOPAZ and its working.
He gave us best wishes for the event and also congratulated us on our efforts.
The members of the E-cell were quite thrilled to be appreciated by Om Puri
He also gave his various inputs for the improvement and better functioning of the E-cell.

Business tea gives better taste than Job coffee

Here I want to start with general trend of our country read-read-read. till 20-24^th of age students only read whatever is given in their curriculum even they are not allow to look other side instead of their text books. After having so much theory knowledge their parents expect from them to be a productive and sustainable businessman in market but how it can be possible? How a student (who grows with books) suddenly can be changed in highly productive businessman?

Theory is important part I agree but that is not sufficient, there is need to apply that theory and conceptual knowledge in real life to get real learning. They have to be familiar that market in which they have to work in the whole life ultimately. The main problem of people of our country having poor thinking in this matter even they are not serious.

Current scenario is changing now, I am very happy to know that people are willing to make their children to have their own business instead of seeking jobs.

Concept of entrepreneurship should be involved in their curriculum to make students able to find out future opportunities of their academic curriculum. This concept of entrepreneurship will help to overcome unemployment problem of our country. So by the next time try to a have tea, not coffee if you can.

10 Reasons Why Startups Fail

• They run out of money.They are too optimistic about when their product is going to be accepted by the market.
• Founders dont have complete faith in each other. They fight instead if delegating, trusting and verifying.
• CEO hires weak team members. Strong CEOs sometimes try to carry everyone with them.
• THey want to do too much. A successful startup finds a narrow niche that they can dominate and then expands
• They go after too small a market.
• They don't charge enough from their customers to survive. THey often think their mentors/investors are their customers , and think that a nice sale is all they need.
• THey hire too many people upfront.
• They get unlucky. Competitiors , new technologies et al
• They dont work hard enough or fast enough or smart enough. All those little decisions add up to an outcome.
• They don't take enough risks.Some startups think they should operate like big firms.They can never beat MS or Google at their own game. They should get creative and do things differently , even at the risk of embarrassment.