Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma urges entrepreneurs to be innovators
- Aug 10, 2021,
- Updated Aug 10, 2021, 1:39 AM IST
SHILLONG: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Monday has urged the entrepreneurs of the state to focus on innovations.
Speaking at the E-Championship Conclave in Shillong on Monday, Sangma said, “Entrepreneurs should not only produce products but should come up with a complete solution with right costing, which is the key to a successful business venture.”
He also spoke at length on his experiences as an entrepreneur while starting his business venture in the IT sector in the late 1990s.
“It is important that we have a passion and a purpose in anything we do and pursue to achieve it. It is my personal experience and hardship I faced, which has inspired me to promote entrepreneurship in the State,” he emphasised.
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He also stressed on the aspect of being environmental conscious in providing a business solutions, which will ensure compliance to various laws of the country and enable the state and the nation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Conrad Sangma on said that the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government launched the Promotion and Incubation of Market-Driven Enterprise or the PRIME programme in 2019 with a strong objective to support aspiring entrepreneurs of the State.
“We realised that there was a very strong need to provide a proper environment to promote entrepreneurship in the state and facilitate entrepreneurs,” he said while speaking at the graduation ceremony of CM’s E-Championship 2020 and on-boarding ceremony for the Cohort -2 batch of 2021.
The PRIME programme focuses on – market access, skill development, technology, and credit linkages to the entrepreneurs.
He informed that the Government had conceptualized PRIME to enable entrepreneurs to cope with different challenging situations in their entrepreneurial journey.