The Team: I Create Rajasthan
ICR sponsor Prof. B.D. and Mrs. Sharda Bhargava Memorial Foundation
  • Naresh and Shachi, Bharat and Yognidra, Ashok and Usha, Harsh and Aruna, and Vikram and Pushpa - Bhargavas
  • I Create, Rajasthan (ICR) is the Northern India branch of I Create Inc., which has been working with the disadvantaged communities in Rajasthan, both rural and urban, for the past six years. For ICR, program please click IC Program. With some modifications as per the needs and requirements of the local communities, ICR follows the general IC program.
  • ICR’s Director, Col. Vijay Kapoor (Rtd.)
  • Col. Vijay Kapoor was I Create’s first entrepreneur. He attended I Create’s first workshop held in Kolkata in April 2000. As Director of ICR, he has put together a great team, created 38 women entrepreneurs, provided entrepreneurship and skills training to thousands, brought about wide interest in Entrepreneurship in Jaipur and its surrounding villages, and provided Entrepreneurship Training to village youth in Haryana. He is a graduate of the prestigious National Defense Academy, Pune. Col. Kapoor is a pillar of I Create in India.
  • The ICR Core Team
    • Dr. Ranju Mehta, Dr. Seema Agarwal,
    • Col. Vijay Kapoor, Sandeep Sethi,
    • Dr. Anjana Tandon, Dr. Manindra Kapoor
    • Apart from helping with all the rural, urban and educational programs, this dedicated group of Senior Master Trainers, also helped the Director, ICR in making the National NFTE-I Create Business Plan Competition a huge success. Congratulations ICR!
  • We are also grateful to the following sponsors of ICR:
  • Anjali Nanda, USA, Bankworld Inc. USA, Camelon Exports, Jaipur, Hotel Meghniwas, Jaipur, Kamla Mankekar, New Delhi, Kaya Kalp Herbals, Jaipur, MSMS Vidyalaya, Jaipur, Mahaveer Public School, Jaipur, Nisha Bahree, New Delhi, Neeta Jain, Jaipur, Rajasthan Educational Trust, Jaipur, Rita Puri, USA, Rangotri, Jaipur, State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, Sthapathya, Jaipur, Seedling Group of Schools, Jaipur, Shishir Loyalka, Jaipur, Sehgal Foundation, Gurgaon, Tagore Public School, Jaipur, Yognindra Bhargava, USA
  • Prestigious award to ICR
  • In 2004, ICR received a prestigious award for its contribution in the field of entrepreneurship training from the Society of Unaided Schools of Rajasthan.
The I Create Rajasthan Programs
Rural Projects
  • ICR has "adopted" two villages, Palri Meena and Jagga ki Bawri. It has a sub center in Palri Meena, staffed by a field worker. Empowerment of Women through Entrepreneurship (EWE) Program & Skills Training for women under project Shakti are conducted there.Thirty-eight women entrepreneurs have been created in the village of Palri Meena.
    Mrs. Behroze Singh, a local entrepreneur gave a large order for sewing bags made of fabric to ICR’s women from the villages of Jagga ki Bawri and Palri Meena. Skills training was provided and production started. The entrepreneur was so pleased that she has placed another large order.
    The women of Palri Meena village participated in the Government Sponsored National Handicraft Fair and Macroma bags made by them brought them good income.
  • Health Camps
  • Periodic health camps are held for the women and children of Palri Meena and Jaggo ki Bawri. A Mobile Medical Van with Dr. Aruna Kanwar, a gynecologist and a female nurse and nursing assistant visit the villages. The health camps are held in partnership with Kejri Sarvodaya Swasthya Trust. Often, when money is scarce, women are the last to receive medical help. These health camps provide an invaluable service.
  • Entrepreneurship classes are conducted in the High Schools in Palri Meena and Jagga ki Bawri. The objective is to foster an interest in entrepreneurship at an early age. In addition, when these students pass High School, and if they are unable to get jobs, they would have already acquired the basics of entrepreneurship and would therefore have an option of starting their own small business instead of joining the ranks of the rural unemployed or migrate to the cities to become day laborers or the urban poor. The pilot project was conducted at the Sardar Ram Singh Memorial Secondary School in Palri Meena.
  • After completing the course, the students are taken on a field trip to various skills training institutions in the city. Then interested students are provided skills training in skills such as mobile phone repair, two wheeler repair, beautician, and photography. The course ended with a business plan competition in Hindi in which seven groups presented their business plans and the first three winners received prizes. As part of the training program, the students also did Tree Planting in Barren School Yards to keep the schoolyard looking beautiful.
  • Urban Projects
  • I Create has provided entrepreneurship training in the following institutions in Jaipur and also for urban unemployed youth.
  • Colleges: Home Science Dept. of UoR, Agarwal college, Kanoria College, Satsai College, Vedic Kanya College,
    Schools: St. Anslem’s, Mahaveer Public School, Tagore Public School, Maheshwari Public School, MSMS Vidyalaya, Seedling Group of Schools, India International School, BVB Vidhyashram School, Jaipuria Vidyalaya.
    Others: Professors and teachers, Retd. Defense and bank officers, Women entrepreneurs, unemployed youth.
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