HARNESSING ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS.

The handout ' Men wanted to sell fried- ground nuts, monthly salary Rs.10,000, boarding free' advertised by a budding, not the Hovered educated Entrepreneur down in the streets of T.Nagar, a busy bazaar in Chennai with its round the clock hustle and bustle is graphical enough to display the amount of unexplored Entrepreneur Potential that remains latent in TamilNadu,and by extension the cities ,villages across the nation as a whole. one can't deny the fact that an engineering graduate after spending his or her Capitation fee that runs into few lakhs ,has to settle down for a paltry 'package' as it were Rs.8000 odd amount, should think twice before pursuing higher studies any more if this is what his exacting educational destiny prepares him or her to be. The wisdom of practical experience as it is encapsulated in the Tamil adage 'Kai tholil ondrai Katrukol Kavalai Unakillai Othukol' the translation of which is 'Learn a Craft( vocational training in entrepreneurial parlance) and bother no more' serves it right for the tens and thousands of the so called 'Engineering ' folks to not only aspire big in life but also expand the horizon of professional advancement, economic prosperity, and contributions to the national Development and growth as responsible citizens .The present paper undertakes to study the untapped entrepreneurial potency that our nation has in terms of its educated youth, especially among the engineering students, the unemployability crisis that the country wrestles with and finally the hitherto unexplored domains of entrepreneurial excellence that the country needs to zero in on. This paper also endeavors to demystify the concept of Entrepreneurship, the need and scope of entrepreneurship in India, and finally unearths some of the potential domains which could be capitalized with proper leverage.