National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019 to Enterprises and Ecosystem builders were conferred Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey on 9th November at New Delhi.

The awards aim to recognize and honour the outstanding young First-Generation Entrepreneurs, and Ecosystem builders for their outstanding contribution in entrepreneurship development and providing support to the entrepreneurs. 

The award seeks to instill and entrench the entrepreneurial attitude among the future generations and the Youth of India.

6098 applications were received online, of which 4134 were eligible and further underwent field assessment and regional online evaluation, which was undertaken by 12 partner institutes, spread across the country.

Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey said that it is heartening to note that people from different parts of the country have participated in the competition and won the awards.

Secretary Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dr K.P.Krishnan said that within four years, the number of complete applications for the awards has gone up by 10-fold and that people from towns and smaller cities have participated whole-heartedly in the competition, and largest number of applicants were in the Agriculture category.

Thirty awards in various sub categories of entrepreneurs were selected and six eco system builders organisations were conferred the awards.

Award Winners received a Trophy, Certificate and a Cash Prize of ₹5 lakh (enterprises/ individuals) and ₹10 lakh (organizations/ institutes).