Dr. Rama Vaidyanathan, Director of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Center of Excellence was invited to be a panelist at the Valedictory Session of the  Entrepreneurship Summit organized by IIT-PALS assocation on 16th March 2019.

Dr. Rama spoke about the organic growth of the E cell at MGR started with the support of National Entrepreneurship Network in 2007. Today, the Center is funded by DST NewGenIEDC and has incubated 10 student projects. Two of them have been sanctioned a Staet-up Nidhi grant for starting a company.