Brief Bio-data

		Shri Harkesh Kumar Mittal Advisor & Head, (NSTEDB) National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board
Education	:	Graduate in Dairy Technology from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal. Masters in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Achievements	:
Shri H.K Mittal joined the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad for developing entrepreneurship among the various target groups including Science & Technology persons. He was instrumental in establishment of institutions of entrepreneurship development at the state level. He then moved on to provide technical and management consultancy to SMEs and evolved programmes for entrepreneurship development. Between 1990 to 2003, he was responsible for initiating various new programmes in NSTEDB and also had a short stint with UNIDO for development of Industrial Clusters in India and evolved programmes for entrepreneurship development. He has over two decades of experience in Technology based Entrepreneurship Development; Skill Development; Trainers Training and Faculty Development; establishment of Entrepreneurship Development Institutions like Institutes of Entrepreneurship Development at the state level, Technology Business Incubators, Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Parks, Entrepreneurship Development Cells in the educational institutions; development of micro-enterprises; working for income generation activities for underprivileged sections like: women, scheduled castes/tribes, physically challenged etc.; development of mass media systems for enterprise development like distance learning, TV, radio, satellite networks and development of portal; development of Industrial Clusters; Financial, Management and Technical Consultancy to SMEs. At present besides being the Member Secretary of NSTEDB he also looks after the work relating to Plan-Coordination, Swarnajayanti Fellowships and Information Technology for the Department of Science & Technology. Shri. Mittal is currently also the National Programme Director of the UNDP project on SKILLS which aims to demonstrate that jobs can be created through appropriate location specific, need based, competency linked training interventions using the conventional as well as on-line systems. He has been responsible for establishing networks with international development institutions like the World Bank (InfoDev Programme) and EU for bringing the global incubation knowledge to the Indian business incubators. At the National level he has linked activities of the NSTEDB with various developmental ministries and institutions. He is a member of various boards and committees of the developmental institutions.