kanpur the indus entrepreneurs up tie up and syndicate bank entrepreneurship research and training center iit kanpur launched the 5th edition of their flagship worldwide entrepreneurial talent nurturing initiative tie young entrepreneurs tye programme 2016 here on saturday while rakesh suri member of the governing council of tieup gave the welcome address followed by an introduction to the tye programme by its convener arun bajpai prof bv phani dean resources and alumni iit kanpur spoke about the importance of this programme for the school students a total of 60 students of class x to class xii belonging to twelve icsecbse schools were selected for this years tye programme all the selected students along with their parents school principals and coordinating teachers were present at the function students were given tye programme handbooks containing details of the whole programme students of swaraj india public school methodist high school jaipuria school sheilling house st aloysius school virendra swarup education centre kidwai nagar and panki mercy memorial school st marys convent and delhi public school azad nagar and kalyanpur are part of this years tye programme convener of the tye programme arun bajpai informed that tye is an integrated 5month programme to be held in nine classroom sessions on different aspects of entrepreneurship the programme will be held on sundays at iit kanpur in the months of september october and november by professors from national entrepreneurship network nen iit kanpur and iim lucknow this will be followed by mentoring in the month of december by successful entrepreneurs and then a business plan competition will be held in the month of january 2016 where 12 student groups comprising of 5 students each will present business plans made by them during the course of this tye programme he said bajpai said that the best three winning teams would be given prizes and the top team would present their business plan in the tye global competition to be held in usa with student teams of various tie chapters of the world last year tie up presented samsung computer tablets to all the students of the winning team gift vouchers worth rs5000 to the first runnerup and rs 2500 to the second runne up team members all the participants of the tye program also received a momento and participation certificates