BEA was founded in 2011 as a not-for-profit, voluntarily-run organization by youth to work for Bihar with more than 25 thousand members. In a very challenging environment in Bihar, BEA is working for an efficient ecosystem for entrepreneurs. In past Eleven years, it has conducted over 2 lac Direct Interactions with Youth through 100+ Start Up Yatras (a chain of workshops at grass- root level run like a Campaign from 2013) highlighting Innovation & Incubation and then brings the selected one to its Incubation cum Business Support Centre Enterprising Zone.
Enterprising Zone is recognized or funded by Govt of Bihar, NITI Aayog, Startup India, Foreign Govt. and empanelled by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India and Ministry of MSME, Govt of India. Many times, our work has been appreciated by NITI Aayog.
We are a Business Facilitation Center with strong market research, credit and market linkages for entrepreneurs, and also for NRIs & foreign investors. We have taken the concept of Entrepreneurship to all districts and blocks of the state followed by Incubation support at our globally recognized centre. The US Ambassador and many other Indian Ambassadors from Argentina, Mauritius etc. have visited the BEA office and met the team, where they guided and motivated the team to work at the grass-root level. BEA has been appreciated and also invited by the Govt of China, Govt of Israel, Govt of Turkey, US Dept. of State, and Taiwan to name a few in the past for Entrepreneurship, Trade and Investment. Four International chambers of BEA have been established in the US, UK, Middle East and Mauritius.
For the Government of Bihar, BEA drafted the startup policy in 2015. Apart from 60 summits and 400 workshops in fourteen years, BEA has organized nine annual Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit (BES), which is the biggest event in Eastern India, Global Summits (for bringing investment and branding Bihar), Pravasi Sammelan, Udyog Samwad, IT Startup Meets, FPO Conclave and Banking Summits with the government attended by Hon. Chief Minister, the Governor, Union Ministers, Ambassadors and thousands of global experts. For the Government of Bihar, BEA drafted the Startup Policy in 2015-16. BEA also has an AI Centre of Excellence at its centre established in 2019 to inculcate Emerging technologies in Agriculture, Health, Education and Governance. We have become a Business Facilitation Centre for Startups and also for NRIs and foreign investors.
Sir, as per the dream of our Hon. Prime Minister to double the Farmer’s income, we started Krishi Samwad, one of the largest campaigns for Farmers to help them become Agripreneurs covering all districts of Bihar, UP and Jharkhand.
Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit BES was started in 2014, in 2015 and 2017 was inaugurated by the Chief Minister where he launched the StartUp Expo and StartUp Policy. BES in 2018 was inaugurated by the Governor of Bihar. BES in 2022 was inaugurated by Hon Minister of Industries and Hon Minister of Building Construction and the Chief Guest was Hon Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar. Guest of Honor was Chairperson, National Commission for Women, Govt of India and Special Secretary and Financial Advisor, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt of India.
Several Ambassadors, CEOs, Foreign delegates like Global Director-IBM, Director-ILO have joined BES in the past.
12th Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit will be organized on 21st March 2025 at Gyan Bhawan, Patna. The full-day event will have 1000 participants who will be selected from 5000+ registrations, awards from all the districts, sessions on Agritech, Emerging Tech and Tech for development. Entrepreneurs from every block will be recognized in this event.
Startup India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt of India, Ministry of Micro., Small & Medium Enterprises, Govt. of India, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt of India along with various other stakeholders will also support us in the event.
We are pleased to invite you as our Guest at the upcoming BES 2025 scheduled on 21st March 2025 at Gyan Bhawan, Patna. This partnership will not only help in the branding of your organisation but also the development of Bihar and reaching youth to every district of Bihar as well as the country. It will also help them in becoming enterprising with Startup, Technology, Innovation, Business Development and New Opportunities.
We seek your wishes & support for building entrepreneurial skills, building the ecosystem and providing a Launchpad for new products and services, including for the persons from underprivileged and marginalised sections of Bihar.