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Cohort – Launch of New Cycle of Start-ups  

Date: July 07, 2021

LORDS Institute of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), Hyderabad is recognized as the  “Host Institution for Technology Business Incubator” by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium  Enterprises (MSME) under the scheme “Support for Entrepreneurial and Managerial Development of  MSMEs through Incubators” by Government of India. LORDS Technology Business Incubator (TBI)  launched its Cohort for new cycle of Start-ups on 3rd July 2021 and announced the list of ten start-ups  which will be incubated for a period of one year. Dr. R. Hafeez Basha, Director - Lords TBI said that  these start-ups will be provided with seed grants of Rs. 15 lakhs per idea & scale up fund of Rs. 1 crore to set up a plant and procure machinery, equipment, etc. through its MSME support. Further there will  be mentoring support by experts, networking with industry connections, investment facilitation, etc. 

Mr. Syed Touseef Ahmed, Vice Chairman of the Lords Educational Society who presided over the  inaugural function said that there is a lot of encouragement given to students’ right from their first year  itself towards innovation and entrepreneurship. “Idea of the Month” is conducted regularly to reward  brilliant ideas from students and faculty members. There was a Hackathon organized in which 300+  students in the form of 65+ teams participated and competed with each other. The management has  been providing financial support to all the innovations including the recent ‘Oxygen Concentrator’ ‘Drone Sanitizer’, ‘Mist Sanitizer’, ‘Currency Disinfectant using UV’, etc. developed by students in  this COVID-19 pandemic situation irrespective of any external funding. The students of the college  have raised seed round investments of more than Rs. 50 Lakhs from angel investors and venture  capitalists. Moreover, a world class corporate style facility of 10,000 sq ft is kept exclusive for start-ups  in the form of co-working space, maker space, R&D laboratories, IPR facilitation, etc.  

Shri. Saurabh Kumar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), GMR Aircargo and Aerospace Engineering Ltd.  Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad graced the occasion as the Chief Guest for inauguration.  In his inaugural speech he encouraged the students to be creative in this new world and utilize all the  opportunities that are provided by the college, schemes of the Government, support from Industries  and leading incubators like T-Hub, etc. He also mentioned that GMR has itself started its Innovation  Center to support the start-ups and promised all his support. Shri. Ganesh Rayala, Director – Academic  Programs, T-Hub (Govt. of Telangana) was the Guest-of-Honour who spoke about the contribution of the state government in making Hyderabad a start-up destination of the country. He also mentioned the  T-Tribe program for colleges where students can get mentored by the start-up founders incubated at  T-Hub. He was amazed by the active responses of students from this college and offered them scale-up  support at T-Hub after they graduated from the Lords Technology Business Incubator.  

Dr. C. Venkata Narasimhulu, Principal addressed that the college has been conferred as “Autonomous” by University Grants Commission (UGC) for next 10 years, and now they have flexibility in syllabus and academic curriculum. He highlighted that courses related to ‘Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Intellectual  Property Rights’ are offered as credit based compulsory subjects for all the engineering streams which  was earlier taught only as an open elective. He also mentioned that in the last 5 years the college has  filed 25+ patents, published 10+ books and 500+ research papers in journals, offered consultancy to  GHMC and industries like Dr. Reddy’s, Aurobindo Pharma, Vasant Chemicals, etc. worth more than  Rs. 1 Crore. Mr. Tajdar Ali, CEO of Lords TBI gave the Vote-of-Thanks. All the HODs, Academic  Faculty, Students and Start-up Founders participated in the launch program through both offline and  online mode which was streamed live on YouTube.

Lords college students can now get funding of INR 15,00,000/- from Central Government

Lords Institute

Date: April 21, 2021

LORDS Institute of Engineering and Technology is approved as Host Institute for MSME Business Incubation by the Development Commissionerate, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (DC-MSME), New Delhi under the Government of India scheme “Support for Entrepreneurial and Managerial Development of MSMEs through Incubators” after inspection and recommendation given by the MSME Development Institute, Hyderabad. This will allow students of the Institution and who start their own companies to apply for funding from the Central Government of upto INR 15,00,000/- for their Business Idea.  The college is the only Muslim Minority Institution from Telangana and among the 10 Institutions that are based in Telangana that has been approved in the meeting held recently. 

The college has set-up 5,000 sft of world-class facility with corporate ambience in the campus with facilities such as co-working space, meeting and discussion rooms, workstations, maker space, etc. for the benefit of Start-ups emerging out from young minds. It is the initiative taken by Vice Chairman Mr. Syed Touseef Ahmed, Alumni of BITS-Pilani and ISB Hyderabad who also appointed a full-time Director Dr. R. Hafeez Basha who did his Ph. D from Japan, worked in Multinational Companies & visited 13+ countries to take care of the day-to-day operations of the Incubator. The college has already produced Entrepreneurs, who became TEDx Speakers, got featured in Forbes 30 under 30, and other recognitions by Government of India organizations. More than 40 innovations are currently exhibited in the campus developed by students.

Institute Innovation Council (IIC) by the Ministry of Education is already operational with National Innovation & Startup Policy (NISP) implemented in campus; Entrepreneurship Development Cell (E-Cell) the most vibrant student association along with twenty other active student clubs are functional. Idea-of-the-month challenge is conducted regularly with Rs.10,000/- cash prize for the best idea along with mentoring support. College has adopted five villages under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan Scheme, Government of India where Technology Intervention is made to solve the local problems by innovative solutions. The problems identified will be given INR 1,00,000/- by the Central Government to solve the problems.