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Social entrepreneurs can ease job woes

With the right mix of capital, government support and individual fervour, the sky is the limit for social entrepreneurship

Soon, IIT-K students can convert hostel rooms into startup offices
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File photo of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | Source: IIT KgP

Ganesh Natarajan
The Indian Institutes of Technology have emerged as a paragon of engineering excellence in India and the early colleges — IIT Bombay, Madras, Kharagpur, Delhi and Kanpur — have provided a large proportion of the brainpower that today runs corporate India and has even created some of the biggest success stories in banking, manufacturing consulting and of course technology in the West. However, in recent times it is the forays made by its alumni in the social sector that has created waves and augurs well for a new renaissance of job creation and the expansion of sustainable livelihoods in the
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