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The prestigious BITS-Pilani not only produce an army of technocrats but also enthuses the "crazy few" students to make their career in start-ups. 

BITS- Pilani director Ashoke Kumar Sarkar  “through our best alumni network our young students are whetting their start-up appetite”. 

He added that "Besides regular teaching programmes that equip students with technical know-how, we also have a summer programme in the first year itself whereby students get hands-on experience about start-ups. "As part of this, they get exposed to the finest entrepreneurs from all over India and the US. We are getting a tremendous response from students and we have to keep a screening process to restrict the entry due to logistical constraints." 

"Through our best alumni network in India and abroad, especially in the US, where they number over 5000, our young students are satisfying their entrepreneurial curiosity and whetting their start-up appetite," Sarkar said

"These courses teach them ways to develop a business model and we get huge response every year. Though we don't allow more than 30 (students) as such, but we are forced to take around 40," he said

The college also organises an annual start-up challenge, fully organised by students, Sarkar said, adding, "last year 1,200 start-ups participated in it."

About BITS Pilani:-

The Pilani campus in Jhunjhunu district, spread over 320 acres, already has a Technology Business Incubator (TBI) which was set up almost a decade ago. It has also set up a Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership to give a specific boost and emphasis to entrepreneurship development. Besides its main campus in Pilanis Vidya Vihar, the famed institution has centres in Goa, Hyderabad and Dubai.

View of an entrepreneur:-

At a young age 23-year-old Vaibhav Singh, who graduated with a dual degree in BPharm and MSc (Chemistry), has a start-up 'Visit', where patients can choose from a pool of doctors and psychologists online. "We realised there was a lot of taboo among people in India when it came to seeing a psychologist or a counsellor, and that is where we saw a business opportunity and we are already getting a lot of traction. Our immediate target audience is urban tech-savvy people but we eventually wish to penetrate the rural base too," Singh, who hails from Patna, said. "The venture has received funding from 'MapMyIndia'. I am based out of Okhla in New Delhi," he said.