The Department of Commerce & Management, Tetso College organised an Entrepreneur Talk session with Ididaule Ngia as the guest speaker on March 3 in the college auditorium.
The resource person is Nagaland’s youngest Gold Director of Oriflame India and a B.Sc. 6th Semester (Anthropology) student of Kohima Science College, Jotsoma.
Describing herself as a ‘studentpreneur,’ Ngia shared her story and experiences. She stated that her love for part-time jobs was what got her interested in entrepreneurship in the first place.
“When you become an entrepreneur, you become your own boss,” she opined, and added that the flexibility and freedom in the work environment was one of the many perks in entrepreneurship.
Lamenting that there are more than 70,000 unemployed educated youth in the state, Ngia asserted that “not everyone is born to be a government employee” and challenged the students to venture into entrepreneurship.
Ngia also said that her goal is to help students become financially independent and also to achieve bigger targets in her own field.
Amar Ranjan Dey, assistant professor and HoD, Department of Commerce & Management, Tetso College gave the concluding remarks.