Tata train to educate India's future entrepreneurs
On December 24th, 400 Indian youth will leave Mumbai India on an adventure that will lead them through 13 Indian cities and over 8000 km. The students will travel throughout India to meet with business leaders and innovative social entrepreneurs in an effort to inspire a new vision for India's future.
This journey, called the Tata Jagriti Yatra 2008, is sponsored by Tata Group, India’s renown, socially minded business conglomerate, and Jagriti Sewa Sansthan, an NGO based in India that promotes entrepreneurship. (Ode covered the Tata Group and social capitalism in the May 2008 issue.)
The impact on these college aged students goes well beyond the scheduled tours and interviews. The teaching takes place on and off the train as it moves throughout the country meeting with dignitaries and villagers. Some of the stops include Trivandrum, Kanyakumari, Bhubaneswar, Jamshedpur, Delhi and Tilonia, where they will meet successful business leaders including Bunker Roy of Barefoot College (Tilonia), and Aravinda Eyecare Hospital teams (Pondicherry).
The vastness of India provides a wide array of inspiration and challenges for these young entrepreneurs. Exposure to some of the 415 unique, living languages (Wikipedia), diverse spiritual traditions and historic sites, helps to synthesize radically new understandings about modern India. Listening to the interviews of past participants from the Jagriti Yatra website, you can witness for yourself the deep impact; for some of the participants their national journey marked the first time they ever left their village area.
For more details, please log on to www.jagritiyatra.com
Many of us are dreaming of becoming a successful entrepreneur someday like Ratan Tata. And in order to achieve this goal/ dream we should study hard and start form the very beginning. We all know that the Tata group- the largest car manufacturer in India is headed by Ratan Tata and last March 23, they’ve finally launched their newest and cheapest car which is called the nano. Their newest model, talked about for years, the Nano, is a stripped down affair that retails for about $2,000, so you can get a brand new car for a few online payday loans. The car has no features outside of seats, an engine, and a steering wheel. Customers outside of India are going to have to wait as the safety features of the vehicle are updated to fit standards of foreign markets, so it may end up costing twice as much in the U.S. to own a nano. To read more about the nano car, visit personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/03/25/car-idea-nano-brand-2200
posted by Abram on 3/30/2009 2:51 am