MSME incubation scheme — Kongunadu as host institute

Separately from the Section 8 centre, the college itself is recognised by the Ministry of MSME as a host business incubator. Its page states the recognition was given at the seventh Project Monitoring and Advisory Committee meeting in March 2021, for the scheme supporting entrepreneurial and managerial development of MSMEs through incubators, and that the scheme supports ideas from students and start-ups, with a limited number of projects submitted under it. A counter on the page reports eleven ideas selected so far, undated.

The page's stated objective is to help individual entrepreneurs develop ideas involving innovative, socially useful and environmentally relevant technology, and to give mentoring, finance and marketing support to entrepreneurs with a viable business plan. It also carries a call for the Ministry's Idea Hackathon, open to students, faculty and entrepreneurs aged eighteen to thirty-five.

Who can apply

• Students, faculty and entrepreneurs, per the hackathon call on the page
• The scheme's own objective names individual entrepreneurs, not only students

How to apply: the page has no application link of its own — the only button on it opens the college's admission enquiry, which is unrelated. The college names its principal as head of the institute and its Dean (R&D) as the person in charge of the incubator. Ask the incubation centre at incubationmanager@kongunadu.ac.in which of these is live before preparing anything.