By Sekhar Seshan. Consulting Editor, Business India

Thirty-five ambitious entrepreneurs from Aurangabad, Kolhapur and Pune presented their business plans to Lalit Kumar Jain, chairman and managing director of Kumar Urban Developments Pvt Limited (KUL) – which began life as the Kumar Builders group, and is still known by that name. These business plans were the outcome of an entrepreneur development programme the company has as its own CSR activity.

The programme, launched last year on its Founder’s Day, 17 August, aims to inculcate entrepreneurial values into the various segments of society, to promote entrepreneurship in the country as what it hopes will be ‘a huge impetus to employment’.

“We started the programme after huge preparation for a year, preparing the syllabus for school, degree and diplomas in EDP as well as a crash course on the subject,” Jain says. “A pilot crash course of three months was launched in October 2019. The first batch completed its learning separately in the three cities of Nashik, Aurangabad and Pune.”

The first one, which ended on 14 March this year, was managed in ‘a very organised and efficient way’ he says. Started on 12 June 2019 with a two-month ‘Training of Trainers’ (TOT) programme for seven trainers, who will be backbone and efficient channels for this programme.

These trainers are highly qualified, have sufficient experience in the fields of both training and business. They were put through a carefully-designed training schedule of business cycles, beginning with the identification of business idea and going all the way to the actual implementation of the idea.