The DU PG Unit of NSS (National Service Scheme) organized a talk by Mr. Prodyut Bora on August 10, 2015 at the Indira Miri Conference Hall. The talk was on "Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship". Mr. Bora is a well- known politician, social activist and technology enthusiast of the state. He is a management graduate from IIM, Ahmedabad besides being a Yale University fellow.
The talk focused on social entrepreneurship while making a reference to leadership and how social entrepreneurship differs from business entrepreneurship. The talk was interspersed with two profile videos on Mr. Ansu Gupta, 2015 Magsaysay Award winner and Dr. Pradip Kumar Sarmah of the Rickshaw Bank Project. The two videos were used to drive home the essence of social entrepreneurship and how it operates. Mr. Bora stressed that the social impact of a social entrepreneurship venture is much more than that of a social initiative taken by a business house. He rued that in Assam, there is a dearth of risk capital which is required for entrepreneurial activity. The more than one hour talk was attended by NSS Volunteers along with others students and teachers of the University. The talk was followed by an interactive session.