Profile of:

Bihar Entrepreneurs

Association

बिहार उद्यमी सघं

(BEA)

Making an Enterprising Bihar

“उद्यमी बिहार – समृद्ध बिहार”

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Know BEA

Bihar Entrepreneurs Association (BEA) a not for

profit organization was founded by young

Entrepreneurs from the state in 2011 to provide a

platform for new enterprise, startups and potential

entrepreneurs from the state to establish a successful

business and with a holistic aim to making Bihar as an

“Enterprising Bihar by Changing the Job oriented

Mindset of the youth, creating an industry and

entrepreneur friendly ecosystem in state and building

a pool of entrepreneurs for future.

BEA offers an excellent platform for the youth who

are future entrepreneurs, where one prospect

entrepreneur can get a single window service, from

advisory services to fund raising support and Hnad-

holding. BEA represents the spirit of growing

entrepreneurship in Bihar. BEA aims to promote

entrepreneurship, providing relevant linkages for

entrepreneurs, association with skill development

activities, directly or indirectly creating job space and

opportunities, and participating in economic growth

in Bihar and also Expanding business opportunities

for seamless growth across all the sector of industries

in the region. BEA aims to provide range of advisory

reports, expert talks and global linkages. BEA is

creating a strong network of entrepreneurs

having interest in Bihar. It is creating a repository

of resources, reports, business plan that will be

helpful for every member of the association.

Newsletters compiled from the articles and reports

contributed by the advisory committee member,

professors, industry experts and fellow

entrepreneurs are provided to its members.

Regular events with the entrepreneurs are

organized for solving issues, sharing best

practices, exchanging ideas, identification of

opportunities and developing synergy with

collaboration.

Bihar Entrepreneurs Association is a regional

coalition of entrepreneurs, business and

community leaders, organizations. We help

them to access nationwide tools and resources

that will help them scale companies, grow their

ecosystem and create jobs. BEA works under

guidance and in collaboration with the Several

Dept. of Govt. of Bihar especially Department of

Industries, Dept. of MSME, Govt. of India and

many National and International Organization.

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Services BEA Offer

Empower people to become Entrepreneurs

through Motivation, Preparation and Hand-

holding for Execution.

Create Awareness about Entrepreneurship at

micro level

Identifying Business Opportunites and

interfacing with potential partners, buyers and

collaborators.

Arranging meeting with government officials

/corporate.

Coordinating meeting trade development

mission.

Organizing summits, conventions and other

meetings on national bi-national issues.

Participating in exhibitions and trade fairs in

Bihar and other states.

Interactive sessions with US Embassy /

consulate Generals and foreign commercial

service offices.

Mounting business and trade delegation to

the Bihar, India and other countries.

Opportunity to meet with business

delegation from Bihar, other states and

different countries.

Advocacy/representation with government on

behalf of Entrepreneurs and youth from

Bihar and other states companies on policies

and trade related matters.

Providing business support services for

Indian and foreign based businessmenin

Bihar and otherstates

Arranging special meetings for visiting

CEOs and senior executives fromBihar,

other state companies andMNCs.

Providing support and network frompartner

organizations like IACC, WEF and funding

organizations.

People Benefits

Networking with the business community.

A platform to assist in framing economic &

industrial policies through close linkage with

the Government.

Access to Research, Surveys, Knowledge

Papers, Press Releases Participation in

Exhibitions, Trade Fairs, Conferences,

Seminars.

Advisory Services, Project assistance, Fund

Support.

Apart from above benefits, BEA is rapidly

becoming the association of choice for all

industries. Directly or indirectly, it has

approximately 6,000 companies from all over

India enjoying their association with BEA. It

encompasses a large and broad membership

from top Public and Private sector companies,

Consultancy and Service Organizations to

Industry Associations, start-ups and

individuals. Such conglomerate benefits the

members of association and the people of

Bihar and other states too.

BEA helps in setting up in Bihar, starting with

an Idea to Launching Product or services,

helping in getting necessary approvals,

meeting the compliances, knowing Govt. and

Non-Govt. schemes and many more.

It also helps in removing roadblocks at Micro-

level, which has been a big hurdle in Bihar in

setting up businesses till date.

Connect-Collaborate-Execute

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BEA Activities

3rd Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit 2016

1. Bihar Entrepreneurs Meet-2011

2. At Bodh Gaya many entrepreneurs from different

sector and Govt. officials came for discussion on

entrepreneurs.

3. “Entrepreneur’s Chai pe Charcha” in2012

4. BEA met with different entrepreneurs for

discussion on new ideas, new opportunities,

developing the ecosystem and technical editing

which is done every 15 days for 3years.

5. Entrepreneur’s Talk- 2012 at Nirvana Cottage,

Patna–

6. In 2012, at Nirvana Cottage Patna, meeting was

held with Govt. officials, Academicians, Bankers

etc.

7. “Making an Enterprising Bihar”– 2013 At DNS

Regional Institute.

8. 2nd Patna Entrepreneurs Meet2013

9. 1stBihar Entrepreneurship Summit-

March2014

10. Bihar Youth Meet2014

11. 2nd Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit-

March2015

12. Code-a-Thon 2015, Coding Programs

initiated

13. 1st IT StartUp Meet

14. m-Gov Summit2016

15. Bestalk in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore,

Kolkata, USA- Ohio, Pennsylvania, UK,

Singapore

16. Enterprising Zone- EZ, 1st

Bihar Incubation

Centre established

17. 3rd Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit

18. International Food Tech Expo in Patna

with 200 Agro-tech companies in May

2016

19. Social Entrepreneurship Summit

20. 2nd Bihar Banking Summit

21. MoU with BRICS Chamber of Commerce

for IT and other Technology skill

development in Bihar.

22. Pitch 4 Bihar (Biggest Idea Launch pad)

23. BEA led a Delegation from India to visit

China on invitation by Govt. of Guizhou,

China to represent India at “Cross- Border

Trade and Investment Summit”.

24. BEA Delegation with 5 StartUps in an

official meeting with Hon. Chief Minister

of Bihar, Shri. Nitish Kumar.

25. Pitch 4 Bihar v2.0 with IIM Calcutta

Innovation Park.

26. 4th Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit.

27. Pitch 4 Bihar v3.0 with IIM Kolkata

Innovation park.

28. GST Summit 2017 on 5th August at GST

Bhawan, Patna.

29. BEA organized workshop on New Bihar

Renewable Policy at Bhagalpur and will

be doing more in other districts.

30. BEA in Association with NIC, Govt of

India, IAMAI (Internet and Mobile

Association of India), IIT organized Open

Govt Data Hack 24 hours Hackathon in

IIT Patna.

31. Smart50 with Dept. of Science and

Technology, Govt of India and IIM

Calcutta Innovation Park.

32. Workshop on Data Science, machine

Learning and Artificial Intelligence in

Enterprising Zone.

33. Organized Young Entrepreneur Summit. 34. 5th Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit

35. US Ambassador Visit to BEA

36. BEA bags AIM, NITI Aayog project

37. TAITRA, Taiwan visited BEA office for

collaboration

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Bihar Start-up Yatra

BEA organizes a state-wide Entrepreneurship cum

Start-up Drive to make “Youth Enterprising‟ in

districts and blocks of Bihar. This has been the

biggest Entrepreneurship Campaign in the Country

covering almost 200 institutions in all 38 districts

and 60,000 interactions with potential

entrepreneurs/people with ideas and proposals. We

have done 67 Start-Up Yatra’s in 38 districts of

Bihar from 2013. The response was excellent by the

society, students, potential Entrepreneurs, Young

Entrepreneurs, & Media at large. The Event was

such a success that it has been planned to be done in

all the 38 Districts of Bihar so that we can achieve

our objective of “Making an Enterprising Bihar “All

the events were inaugurated by Hon. Minister of

Industries, Govt. of Bihar. Right from Girls colleges

to a remote location college without electricity.

1st Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit- Annual Flagship

Program

Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit

This is a festival of Entrepreneurs, a tribute to all

New Ventures, Start- Ups, Young Minds, and idea

sharing of Young Entrepreneurs, to showcase

Innovation, a platform for Experts, Consultants,

Academicians, and Investors. It is being organized

every year in the month of March by Bihar

Entrepreneurs Association, in collaboration with

different Govt. and Non-Govt. organization. The

BES‟s vision has enhanced, and objective is

replenished, hence every BES is much more

improvised than the previous one.

In 2014, 1st BES was attended by Planning

Commissioner, Industry Development

Commissioner, Secretaries of several dept., Govt. of

Bihar and Govt. of India.

In 2015, 2nd BES was inaugurated by Hon Chief

Minister Shri Nitish Kumar in March 2015, where

to minority colleges, the process for motivation,

ignition, preparation and execution was followed

during StartUp Yatra. BEA is being invited by Govt.

of Jharkhand and Govt. of UP and Govt. of India for

doing StartUp Yatra in those states.

The Summit is expected to bring together more than

1000 entrepreneurs and leaders of entrepreneurial

organizations from countries to exchange ideas and

establish international networks and partnerships.

2nd Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit Annual Flagship Program. Launching of “Enterprising Bihar” App

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1stBihar Banking Summit -2015

2ndBihar Banking Summit 2016

Code-A-Thon- “Bihar Codes” (1stof its kind in Bihar)

1ST IT- StartUp Meet Making Bihar an IT Hub-

Introducing Disruptive Technologies in IT sector This

is an initiative by BEA for bringing New Thoughts,

Ideas, Innovative approach, Policy Measures for

Making An Enterprising Bihar.

BESTALK

Bihar Entrepreneurs Association (BEA), in

partnership with Dept. of Industries, Govt. of

Bihar, and many other national and international

Partners of BEA, organized the "BESTALK

2016– a small talk can bring a big change"

which would be one of the India's largest pre-

events where people from diverse backgrounds

come together in 10 cities in India, US, UK and

Singapore.

Bestalk-Mumbai

Bestalk- Bangalore

Bestalk-Delhi

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BEA has brought people who think about Bihar and

want to help this 75 million youth populated state on

one platform.

Now, it’s a 16000-member organization and playing

main role in developing Entrepreneurial and StartUp

Ecosystem at micro level in the state through

Incubators, Business Facilitation Centres, StartUp

Policy, State Venture Capital Fund etc.

1stBestalk was organized at Innov8, Connaught

Place, New Delhi.

2nd Bestalk was organized in

Bangalore on 20th Feb, 2016 at KSBA Club.

Some of the big Investor from StartUp Ecosystem

community and Industries apart from Senior Govt

officials were present at Talk in Bangalore on 20th

Feb,2016 to share their ideas, views, and discussing

StartUp Policy, Industry Policy, New Investment

proposals etc. BesTalk- Ohio, USA

Bestalk-Delhi was attended by people like: Deputy

Secretary-Finance, Govt. of India, Chairman-

Railway Board, Chairman- Business World, CEO-

NDTV Retail, Abhishek (Chairman-Indo-American

Chamber of Commerce) Senior Bankers, Merchant

Bankers etc.

Bestalk-Bangalore was attended by MD-KEONICS,

MD-KSSIDC both responsible for IT sector and

industrial development in Karnataka, CEO-India

Gadget Expo, CEO-technology Port, CEO-Lavisa

Group, MD-Roselle (Netherlands) and many others.

3rd Bestalk-Mumbai was organized at Norton

Hall, Bombay Stock Exchange Building on 27th

Feb, Saturday. The Special Guest for

BESTALK Mumbai was Industries Development

Commissioner, Govt. of Bihar, Dr. S. Siddhartha.

This event worked in getting investors, entrepreneurs

and application for different sectors, Government

department, social development sectors.

BesTalk- Kolkata

We are getting huge support in these cities from

Bihari and many Non-Bihari people in these

cities for bringing New Investment

opportunities and developing Small Industries

and StartUps in the state with largest youth

population. This campaign helped in forming

BEA Chapters outside Bihar and outside India.

Innovative Use of State Infra

Idea and Execution of Biscomaun IT Park

Free of Cost conceptualization of Biscomaun

StartUp Hub in 2015, planning, Awareness,

inviting applications and selection of startups

was done.

m-Governance (Appathon)

Governance is one of the India’s largest events

where people from diverse backgrounds come

together and use technology to transform e-

governance to m- governance aims to provide

latest insights and ideas on applications of

mobile apps and software development for the

improvement of Bihar.

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which are working for development of the state in

several sectors like Education, Health, Employment,

Skill development, Rural and Urban development etc.

Annual Code-a-Thon

3rd

Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit

International Grain Expo held, with 200

companies and 20 companies from outside India

participated to showcase latest Technology in

Food

Udyog Samwad, an Online Interactuve application

platfrom for any Youth, New and Existing

Entrepreneurs with the Head of the State. Udyog

Samwad has been a Major Breakthrough in Changing

Bihar and Making an Enterprising Bihar. This

application is 1st

of its kind in the country.

Udyog Samwad: www.udyog.bihar.gov.in

Special Session on Women Entrepreneurship at 3rd Bihar

Entrepreneurship Summit

International Food Tech Expo at Patna, where 122

exhibitors participated from

Round Table Meets

With Hon Minister of MSME, Govt. of India on

MSME Development in Bihar

Hon Union Minister of MSME, Govt of India was the

Chief- Guest with Secretary-Dept. of Labour, Govt.

of Bihar, a detail discussion was made to do resource

mapping of the state, regular meetings. The Meet was

yet another success story of BEA.

ACHIEVMENTS

BEA believe in Inclusive Growth and

empowering Youth at district and block level of

Bihar. It has done 38 Start-Up Yatra in different

districts of Bihar starting from 2014. It has been

Hon Minister of Industries and Science and

Technology, Hon Minister of Cooperative, Govt

of Bihar with CEO-GE (Aviation and

Transportation) inaugurated the Annual 3rd Bihar

Entrepreneurship Summit at Old Secretariat,

Patna. 3rd

BES was attended by 1000 people with

thousands of people following across the globe.

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StartUp Bihar- The Official Portal and Processing

System has been designed by BEA for applying,

processing and Management of every application for

startup under Bihar StartUp Policy.

IMPACT OF BEA ON BIHAR ECONOMY:

BEA has directly created around 2000 Entrepreneurs in

the state from 2011 and aims to promote

entrepreneurship in Bihar with 5000 StartUps and

young entrepreneurs till 2020. It works on Ignition

(Changing the Mindset towards

Entrepreneurship), Preparation (Empower with

knowledge, information and hand holding) and

Execution (Network, Market, Finance. All its

ultimately leads to increase in the GDP of the state with

the only Goal of “Making An Enterprising Bihar”.

• On BEA demand, Startup Committee was

setup by Hon. Chief Minister of Bihar with

two BEA members and three commissioners

(senior IAS officials) for devising the Startup

policy for Bihar and it will enacted from 1st

July 2016.

• 1stIncubation Centres EZ set up and passed by State

Cabinet. • State Venture Capital Fund of 500 crores declared

by Hon CM after our prolong request.

• Setting Startup Centres at district level with the help

of local colleges and institutions.

• 26 Startup Yatra in colleges and

universities.

• International exhibition on Food Processing

Technology

• Technology Expo on IT, ITES,

Manufacturing etc.

• Organizing Banking Summits and

Hackathons.

• Round table meets with Central and State Govt.

Ministers.

• Meets (BESTALK) in All Metros for Developing

Bihar.

• Training programs on Coding, IT skills, Financing

and Job & Entrepreneurship based modules.

• US Ambassador Visit to BEA (Enterprising Zone)

24 StartUps has been recognized under

StartUp India, Govt. of India and 11 StartUps

got Funds under StartUp Bihar.

ACHIEVMENTS

BEA believe in Inclusive Growth and

empowering Youth at district and block level of

Bihar. It has done 38 Start-Up Yatra in different

districts of Bihar starting from 2014. It has been

organized in partnership with Dept. of Industries,

Govt. of Bihar, WEF & Indo American Chamber

of Commerce. We are taking StartUp Revolution

to every villages and blocks through StartUp

Yatra. The feedback of the Start-Up Yatra has

been excellent among rural youth which led

to Youth coming back to the state and youth from

the state becoming Entrepreneurs. 2nd

Bihar

Entrepreneurship Summit was organized in

March 2015 and was inaugurated by Hon. Chief

Minister of Bihar. In March 2016, 3rd

Bihar

Entrepreneurship Summit was organized, where

some of the top knowhow of the Govt. and startup

ecosystem in the country were present along with

Industry people like CEO-General Electric

(Transport and Aviation).

Enterprising Zone- The

Incubation Centre and New

Initiatives

BEA started Incubation Centre-Enterprising

Zone-EZ with National and International

Partners. It is also starting StartUp Centre in all

districts of Bihar. Next phase of Bihar Start-Up

Yatra is going to be organized by BEA in 2016

completing 50 StartUp Yatras. Sector-wise

Entrepreneurship Development Program will be

organized by BEA in future. BEA is going to

launch An Entrepreneurship Promotion program

in schools for motivating and connecting

students in schools to innovators and Mentors to

enhance creativity and knowledge. EZ is

registered with StartUp India, Govt. of India

also.

BEA signed MoU with BRICS Chamber of

Commerce to start Skill Development Centre

(named asEXCEL-50) train in IT sector and high

technologies in Bihar. Engineering and IT

graduates will be getting exposure to corporate

and updated technologies with this well-planned

course outline from Global experts.

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StartUp Bihar- The Official Portal and Processing

System has been designed by BEA for applying,

processing and Management of every application

for startup under Bihar StartUp Policy.

BEA giving Training to Managers of Banks

with MSME Financing at RBI Headquarter on

StandUp India.

MoU between BRICS Chamber of Commerce

and Industry and Bihar Entrepreneurs

Association

A special skill development programme by BRICS

Chamber of Commerce and industry with Bihar

Entrepreneurs Association for IT and

Technology skill development inBihar for the

engineers of state. According to National

Employability Report released by Aspiring Minds

17.91% IT Services, 3.67% IT Products and in

business processes outsourcing only 40.57%

Engineers are employable. This became the

pioneer for skill development programme.

BEA continue to tie-up and partner for Skill

Development projects in Bihar especially young

girls and women.

Pitch 4 Bihar: Biggest Idea Launch Pad

“Pitch 4 Bihar” was inaugurated by Hon.

Minister of Industries and Science and

Technology Shri. Jai Kumar Singh, Govt. of

Bihar along with Hon’ble Minister of

Cooperative Shri Alok Kumar Mehta Govt. of

Bihar, Principal Secretary, Dept. of

Industries, Govt. of Bihar, MD, Bihar State

Beverage Corporation Limited on 21st October

2016. It was a campaign where candidates

registered their Business Ideas and Mobile App

Ideas from all over India (IITs, IIMs, and NITs,

IIITs and many engineering and management

colleges) online and offline. A Business Plan

format was provided to the applicants free of

cost. This was 1st time when a CASH award of

Rs. 2 lakh and non-cash awards of Rs. 10lakh

was given to the winners. Judges from the

knowhow of the StartUp World came for the

Pitch 4 Bihar. They analyzed, checked the

feasibility of the idea, their USPs, the stage of the

StartUp, revenue model etc. and connected with

the mentors and the incubation center.

Shri. Jai Kumar Singh, Dr. S Siddharth, Mr. Mithilesh

Mishra, Mr. Kaushalendra, Mr. Abhishek Kumar, with the

top 20 finalist

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BEA visit to China for Cross-Border Trade

and Investment Summit

BEA was invited by Govt. of Guizhou, China for

Cross Border Trade and Investment Summit in

China’s 1st Smart City- Guiyang. Delegates from

38 countries came for the Summit. BEA

participated as an organizing partner. BEA was

official Organizing Partner for Sino India Trade and

Investment Summit. It was representing India for its

Startup Landscape and Collaborating with Chinese

Startup community. Collaboration on Many

opportunities or Trade and business such as:

#StartUp Exchange Programme, #Infrastructure Development,

#Collaboration on Tourism Development,

# Big Data Industry Development and tie up with

Global Big Data Exchange in setting up Big

Data Science Institute in Patna,

#Buddhist Circuit Development- A presentation

given to Indian Embassy,

#Establishment of Centre for Chinese Studies-

Two Universities namely Guizhou University and

Guizhou Normal University were visited by BEA

delegation for this purpose.

Presentation was given by GICC on Similarities

between Guizhou and Bihar. On behalf of BEA, Mr.

Abhishek Kumar presented on Enterprising Bihar and

the area of collaboration. Three StartUps were

presented for Funding and Tie-Ups, Medi360, School

Link and Deep Pockets. BEA delegation was given

due importance for meeting the Governor of

Guizhou, China at Guiyang, China.

Governor of Guizhou, China with BEA Delegation

BEA Delegation with Hon. Chief Minister

of Bihar Shri. Nitish Kumar

BEA Delegation with 5 StartUps in an official meeting

with Hon. Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri. Nitish Kumar.

Fast implementation of the Startup policy was the main

focus of the meeting. All the five StartUps had one on

one conversation with the Hon. Chief Minister. Steps

for proper implementation of Startup policy were

discussed. Hon. CM highlighted the areas favorable

for Startup. Discussion was done on “StartUp BIHAR”

for a grand launch of first phase for seed fund.

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Advisory Council

The Advisory Council consists of Respectable

people from Harvard, IIM-A, IIM-C, XLRI, IMT,

SP Jain, Virginia Tech, Oxford, IIT-KGP, LSE,

WEF, World Bank, Senior IAS officials from

Govt. Dept., Retired Civil service officials and

Officials from leading banks.

Dr. HK Pradhan

is a Professor of Finance and

Economics at XLRI

Jamshedpur (India). He also

served as the member of the

Board of Governors & Chaired

the Doctoral Programme.

Presently a member of the

Reserve Bank of India Technical Advisory

Committee (TAC) on

Money, Foreign Exchange and Government

Securities Markets, an Independent Director of the

SBI Mutual Fund, one of the top asset management

companies in India. Dr. Pradhan is member of the

Board of M-Cril Micro Credit Rating International

Ltd, and Member of Index & Option Committee of

the National Commodity and Derivative Exchange

(NCDEX), Mumbai. Dr. Pradhan completed his

education at Columbia University in the City of

New York. He has specialized skill in Finance,

Risk Management, Capital Management.

Sara Gross

Member Board of Advisors

at Rudra Investment

Promoting food security,

family farmers, social

enterprise in India and

Mexico.

Innovative Leader and Developer. Development

Solutions. A stand for responsible policy-making.

US/Mexico Antitrust and Regulatory Reform. LSE

Political Economist. Mbr A New World of

Opportunity - By 2025,

London School of Economics and Political Science,

Member, The Mexican Council on Foreign Affairs

(COMEXI) at Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.

Dr. Vaibhav Bhamoriya

is a faculty member with

the Centre for

Management in

Agriculture, IIM

Ahmadabad since

February 2011. He also

served as visiting Assistant

professor in Economics

Area at IIM, Indore.

Prof. Bhamoriya worked on the project “Hybrid

vegetable seeds in India under new policy regime

(emerging trends, challenges and opportunities)”

from September 2011 – January 2012. Dr. Vaibhav

Bhamoriya completed his studies from Indian

School of Mines (Mining Engineering), Institute of

Rural Management (PGDRM), and Indian Institute

of Management-Ahmadabad FPM - Fellow

Program in Management, Institutional Economics /

Agriculture and Natural Resources Management.

Dr. Sumeet Kumar

is Associate at Dean

Ventures at Washington

D.C. Metro Area since January

2014. He completed his

education at Massachusetts

Institute of Technology. At

MIT, he also worked as

Research Assistant. There

he Designed and fabricated a

micro fluidic platform for carrying out a

biochemical reaction called polymerase chain

reaction. He also Investigated implementation of

bench top biochemistry in a micro fluidic

environment and developed a 3- dimensional,

computationally efficient thermal fluidic model to

capture the conjugated heat transport mechanisms

in the micro fluidic platform. He works on Big

Data Analytics, Machine Learning and working

with Facebook.

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Dr. Kamakhya Nr. Singh is Technical (Microfinance) Expert, UNDP (AMSCO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), LAPO since May 2010. Previously he worked with Asian Development Bank, VAEWA/VESA and Volunteer Consulting Club. Dr. Singh

completed his education at University of Oxford. Dr. Singh has Top management level extensive experience of about 20 years across Asia, Africa and Europe in the area of Finance, Strategy, and Management.

Dr. Piyush Kumar Sinha completed his Ph.D. at Sardar

Patel University. He joined

Indian Institute of

Management, Ahmadabad

after a 20- year service in

academics and industry. Prior

to joining this Institute, he was

the Dean

at Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmadabad

(MICA). He has also taught at the Indian Institute of

Management, Bangalore and XIM, Bhubaneswar.

During his tenure in the corporate world he worked as

a Marketing Manager for Gujarat Gas and Rasna. His

area of research was Retailing, Shopping, and Point of

Purchase Communication & Strategy Formulation for

Media. He has several publications as papers, cases

and books. His papers have been accepted for

publication in international journals like the

International Journal of Retail and Consumer Services,

International Journal of Retail and Distribution.

Smita Purshottam

An Ex- Ambassador to

Switzerland, she loves Bihar and

guide BEA in Skill Development,

Environment and Clean

technology. She has been an expert

in Defence Technology She is a

Fellow from Harvard University

and part of Global.Think Tank on

Innovation and New Products. .

Dr. RatneshwarLal

Received his MS and Master of

Philosophy in Physics and

Biophysics from JNU in New

Delhi and his Ph.D. in

Neurobiology from the

University of Alabama. After

postdoctoral training at

Caltech, he was a faculty

member at the University of Chicago and the

University of California at Santa Barbara. Before

assuming his current position at UCSD, he was a

Professor and the Director of the newly established

Center of Nano medicine at the University of Chicago.

His current working Institution is University of

California, San Diego in the department of

Engineering.

Dr. Sunil Srivastav is Founder, President and CEO of Richmond

Chemical Corporation. He also co-founded Ingenza

with responsibility for technology and product

commercialization, marketing and business

development in 2002 following a 12-year history with

Monsanto Corporation, Chicago IL, where he was

instrumental in the establishment, growth and sale of

the NSC Technologies division to Great Lakes

Chemical Company for $125 million in 1996.

Dr. Pankaj Kumar is a Scientist at IHPC, ASTAR,

since September 2012. Dr.

Kumar has two-year experience

of Postdoctoral Research

Associate at Virginia Tech.

During his Post-Doctoral

Research, he developed Open

Foam utilities to generate Monaghan boundary and

virtual particles and a C++ code for finding nearest

neighboring particles using quad tree and octree tree

data structure and also developed 3D SPH code within

the Open FOAM framework. Dr. Kumar also has Acting

Experience at The Stage club, Singapore and School of

Performing Arts, Virginia Tech. Dr. Pankaj Kumar has

been awarded for Best Industry Project for Three-

dimensional Inkjet Simulation and

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Best Teamwork Project for Developing LBM Solver on

Open FOAM, IHPC/ASTAR.

Dr. Kamaljit Anand A PhD from IIM Ahmedabad, he is a

Leader of Data Science in a Growing

Organization with interest in

Globalizing the Data Analytics

footprint.

About 15 years of experience in Data Analytics and

Consulting across verticals for Fortune 500 Clients as well

as in Revenue Linked Classified Areas for Worldwide

Governments. He worked as Advisor to several ministries

in Govt. of India and abroad and serves as Chief Scientist

of KiE Square Consulting mainly based in New York and

Gurgaon.

Executive Council

The Executive council (Executive Committee) Apex

body which runs BEA, consists of individuals,

entrepreneurs, management and engineering

professionals and academicians from top institutes

like from IIMs, IITs, CA, Harvard, Yale etc who are

expert in their respective field and are cent-percent

committed and devoted in their work to make “An

Enterprising Bihar”. The sector-wise experts will

enable the work to be completed with highest level

of efficiency and effectiveness.

Infrastructure Entrepreneurs Support Centres in 25 districts to hand

hold entrepreneurs and startups.

Members: We have more than 240 Registered

Charter Members and Enterprise Members

combined, and more than 16000 online registered

members and student representatives in almost all

the colleges of Bihar. We have Directors looking

after different sectors and responsibilities.

Offices: We have offices in all metros and sub-

metros. We have 11 running offices as our district

headquarters with district presidents and respective

team. We are working to establish a Building

dedicated to Incubation Centre in a month with

sector-wise experts and free Work-space for Start-

Ups, which is included in our Roadmap for 2016.

EZ Incubation Centre: A world class infrastructure

with centrally air-conditioned space, conference

halls, its own ISP and 24*7 cafeteria at prime

location in Patna.

Partners: Till date BEA has 27 National and

International Partners making the Biggest

Networking platform of its kind in Eastern India

catering 150 million youth of Eastern India.

1st Bihar Business Helpline

1st Free Helpline (+91-9507-229900-11) for any

business query starting from Legal services like

registering a Setting up an Enterprise,

Company/Ngo to License, Project financing,

schemes of Govt./Non-Govt., Marketing Linkages

to all who want to do business in Bihar. We assure a

complete execution to the product stage.

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#Women Entrepreneur workshop conducted by

Bihar Entrepreneur Association on 25th Dec

2016 at Enterprising Zone. The workshop

focused on Start-up policy, the new Industry

policy, StartUp India and StandUp India &

available opportunities and schemes in Bihar.

BEA presenting its work and agenda to

Secretary, DIPP, Govt of India Mr. Ramesh

Abhishek

BES 2017- #BES2017

Launch of StartUp Policy 2017

21st March – 4th Bihar Entrepreneurship

Summit "StartUp Bihar" @ at Shri Krishna

Memorial Hall – 9 a.m. inaugurated by Hon Chief

Minister of Bihar, Shri Nitish Kumar.

# Pitch 4 Bihar v2: Biggest Idea organized

with Enterprising Zone, IIM Calcutta

Innovation Park and Tata group

“Pitch 4 Bihar v2” was inaugurated by on 17th Dec

2016. It was a campaign where candidates registered

their Business Ideas and Mobile App Ideas from all

over India (IITs, IIMs, and NITs, IIITs and many

engineering and management colleges) online and

offline. A Business Planform was provided to the

applicants free of cost.

MoU between IIM Calcutta Innovation Park

(IIMCIP)and Bihar Entrepreneurs Association

BEA

IIM-C Innovation Park and BEA with this MoU is

working towards promoting entrepreneurship and

innovation creating a pipeline of innovative ideas in

Bihar and adjoining states,

and providing mentorship, capacity building, funding

connects, working space and other support services

supporting incubates.

International Pitching Competition with cash awards was

held at 3rd BES. 3rd

BES was attended by 1000 people

with thousands of people following across the globe.

Session on Women Entrepreneurship

Walk The talk at 3rd BES, 19th March 2018.

GST Summit 2017 - #GST

GST Summit inaugurated by Hon Minister of

Industries and Science & Technology and Chief

Commissioner, GST and Custom (UP, Bihar,

Jharkhand) with Shri Swaraj Sinha, and Shri

Abhishek Singh at GST Bhawan, Income Tax

Golamber, Patna.

Pitch4Bihar V3.0, Invent Program and Social

Enterprise Challenge with TATA, IIM-C, UKaid,

Dept. of Science and Technology, at Chanakya

National Law University. Patna.

Visit of US Consulate at EZ Officers from US Consulate Mr. Jamie Dragon

visited EZ, BEA Incubation centre.

Transforming India

With Union Minister of MSME, Govt. of India, Shri

Giriraj Singh Ji and Ex- Minister Shri Nitish Mishra

Ji speaking on Transforming India through

Sustainable Rural Livelihood especially in Bihar,

BEA Learnings and role played by BEA till date.

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Workshop to Highlight Features of the

Bihar Renewable Energy Policy 2017

In September’ 17, Bihar Entrepreneurs Association

(BEA) along with the CEED started series of

regional workshop starting from Bhagalpur and

taking it to different districts. The objective behind

the workshop was to disseminate the salient features

of the recently approved Renewable Energy policy of

Bihar and to create awareness on the corresponding

entrepreneurial growth in the state.

Smart fifty, Dept of Science & Technology,

Govt. of India

Smartfifty' organized by Department of science and

technology, Government of India, BEA and IIM

Calcutta innovation park in St. Xavier College,

Patna.

Workshop on Data Science and Artificial

Intelligence by Experts from MIT &

Facebook

BEA organize workshop on Data Science, machine

Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Enterprising

Zone. The session was delivered by Dr. Sumeet

Kumar, Data Scientist at Facebook California.

Young Entrepreneur Summit

On 20th December 2018, Young Entrepreneurs

Summit organized by Bihar Entrepreneurs

Association was inaugurated by Hon Dy. Chief

Minister Shri Sushil Kr Modi ji and Hon Minister

of Building Construction Shri Maheshwar Hazari

ji at Gyan Bhawan, Patna.

It was attended by 1000 Young Entrepreneurs,

Women Entrepreneurs, HIV+ Entrepreneurs,

Physically Challenged Entrepreneurs,

transgenders from all 38 districts of Bihar. With

around 20+speakers and 950+participants 10 youth

received Annual Young Entrepreneur Award, 4

entrepreneur received Rare Change Maker Award

(HIV, Transgender and physically handicapped

entrepreneur), Youth Encouragement Award, and

Young Entrepreneurs Expo was part of YES

2017.

BEA presented at NITI Aayog

on Youth development in Bihar

in Feb 2018. Selected by NITI

Aayog to setup Atal Incubation

Centre in Patna in 10k sqft area

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AIRSWEEE 2.0 (with US Dept of State and TiE Global)

Historical activity for Bihar, TiE Global, US Dept of State through U.S. Embassy, New Delhi and Consulates partners to

Empower Women Entrepreneurs from Tier II and Tier III Indian cities with BEA as the Regional Partner for Patna.

The 6-month program started with 4 day workshop at Patna for

mentoring and skill development for early stage women entrepreneurs in Patna ended with certificate distribution. The 4-day

workshop has Industry visit, visit to NGO working for Women and a Visit to the Skill Development centre for women. The

curriculum was designed by Global experts in US keeping in mind the Indian context. In addition to US Mentors, Hon Union

Minister of state for Rural Development, Agriculture Production Commissioner were Chief Guest at opening and closing

function respectively.

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5th Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit (Annual Program on 21st March)

His Excellency the Governor of Bihar Shri Satya Pal Malik inaugurated the Annual 5th Bihar

Entrepreneurship Summit (बिहार उद्यबमता सम्मेलन). There were sessions on Trendsetters of Bihar, Entrepreneurs for

Rural India and Women Entrepreneurs.

US Ambassador visit to BEA

Hon Ambassador to United States of America Mr. Kenneth Juster, US Consulate General, Kolkata Mr. Craig

Hall, Director of American Centre- Mr. James Dragon and other senior US officials visited Enterprising Zone,

BEA Incubation Centre on 24th March. It was an hour long visit on discussion on BEA work on Entrepreneurship

Development especially for women and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Bihar. The Ambassador interacted with

AIRSWEEE program head Subhadra Singh which is a fully funded program by US Dept of State and met the

group of women entrepreneurs. He advised as a Mentor to the 7 Women Entrepreneurs present on Use of

Technology, Global Network and Markets.

His Excellency the Governor of Bihar Shri Satya Pal

Malik praised BEA village level efforts for last 6 years

for making 70 million youth of Bihar Enterprising.

Session on Entrepreneurs from rural India which was

chaired by Chief General Manager, NABARD Shri S K

Majumdar and Mr. Ch Srinivasa. Sastry-Zonal Manager-

Andhra Bank

Session on Entrepreneurs from rural India chaired by Chief

General Manager, NABARD Shri S K Majumdar and Mr. Ch

Srinivasa. Zonal Manager, Andhra Bank

Session on women entrepreneurs chaired by Padamshree Smt.

Sudha Vergheese and Ex-Ambassador to Switerland Smt

Smita Purshottam.

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Connect with BEA

www.beabihar.com

www.enterprisingzone.com

Corporate Office:

L-202, Dumrao Place, Frazer Road, Dakbunglow

Patna- 800001 (Bihar, India)

Enterprising Zone:

128 E, Opposite Children’s Park, Shiv Puri Patna -

800001

Landline: +91-612-254-1177

Mobile No.: +91-9507229900 / 11

E-mail: connect@beabihar.com

secretary@beabihar.com

connect@enterprisingzone.com

Startup Yatra-Dehradun

BEA with Association Leaders of 4 countries at

Association Leader’s Forum, New Delhi.

BEA @IIT Roorkee

Ambassador and High Commissioner from 3

Countries: USA, Argentina, Mauritius visited BEA

in July’18.

TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development

Council) met the major importers and manufacturers from

Bihar and Jharkhand at BEA Office.

Udyog Samwad - Mentoring Session for SMEs