Pact signed for research on Dalit entrepreneurship

New Delhi: In the presence of Thaawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Dr. Ambedkar International Centre (DAIC), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) on Thursday. From DAIC, the Director, Atul Dev Sarmah and from DICCI, Milind Kamble, the Founder Chairman signed the MoU.

Applauding the joint effort of DAIC and DICCI, Gehlot said that the overall motives of this MoU is the empowerment of SC and ST communities through research on Dalit entrepreneurship, empowerment, skill development capacity building among SC/ST women and youth, impact of different schemes of the Government on socio-economic conditions of SC and ST and other similar subjects. He wished them grand success.

Since DICCI brings together all Dalit entrepreneurs under one umbrella, acts as a one-stop Resource Centre for existing and aspiring Dalit entrepreneurs and promotes entrepreneurship among Dalits as a solution to their socio-economic problems. Therefore, DAIC as per its mandate of research in the field of Socio-economic Transformation for capacity building and for preparing and providing policy feed needs collaboration with organisations like DICCI for upliftment of SCs and STs.

DAIC through this collaboration will also try to find out how far the SC and ST communities have engaged themselves in starting and establishing their own businesses. The data will be used to identify the reason why the spirit of entrepreneurship has not been infused among Dalit youth to develop business leadership for empowering them to walk in step with the world.

The main areas of collaboration between DAIC and DICCI are as follows: Strengthen the ties between DAIC and Industrial Organisations to make collaborative efforts in the fields of research and training. Make joint efforts for creating a knowledge bank which may be used to facilitate scholars, researchers and policy makers.

Exchange academic materials and publications. Conduct lecture programmes, seminars, symposiums, and other types of academic discussions and undertake joint research attachment of staff for purposes of curriculum development and review, attendance of courses, upgrading of teaching and research skills.