Delhi: January 31, 2011: More and more engineering institutions and B-schools are encouraging their students to take up entrepreneurship, post education. However, Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering, today at TEDxDTU motivated its budding engineers to go a step ahead and take up social entrepreneurship, which is developing enterprises for the benefit of society. An internationally acclaimed event TEDx (where x=independently organized TED event) works on the concept of spreading ‘the power of idea’ through motivational videos and live talks by committed individuals who are involved in social enterprises.

Organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell of the University, the theme of TEDxDTU was “Celebrating the spirit of Social Entrepreneurship - Driven with the vision to create better ways to help people grow”. Inaugurating the event, which was held against a specially created rural backdrop within the University auditorium, Prof. P.B. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, DTU said, “Pooling of mind is important in this new Knowledge Age. We all may know something but none of us knows everything, hence it is important to share your ideas and knowledge with each other for creating fair prosperity and happiness in plenty for all.”

Through her presentation, Ms. Saloni Malhotra, co-founder of DesiCrew and MTV Youth Icon 2008, shared as to how creating enterprises within a rural community goes beyond just providing employment to village dwellers and benefits the community in a much larger way. While sharing her experiences of working at almost inaccessible places like Char, Executive Director, Friendship, Ms. Runa Khan emphasized that in order to aid a community it is important to first identify their basic need and then try to serve that particular requirement.