Startup India Punjab Yatra reaches tech varsity

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, January 21

The Startup India Punjab Yatra Van, which is being organised by the Punjab Government in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, got a good response at Giani Zail Singh Campus College of Engineering and Technology (GZSCCET), Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University (MRSPTU), Bathinda.

The yatra is aimed at spreading awareness of startup ecosystem, motivating the youth, creating self-employment, upgrading the skills of entrepreneurs and providing them support to set up their units under the professional guidance.

GZSCCET Director Dr Savina Bansal, Students Welfare dean Dr RK Bansal, Pharmacy dean Dr Ashish Baldi, Academics (dean) Dr JS Tiwana, MRSPTU Director (Training and Placement) Harjot Singh Sidhu along with heads of departments and students received the yatra van on the campus premises.

More than 100 entrepreneurs registered themselves at GZSCCET for attending the boot camp (Idea Pitching Competition) on January 22 at Baba Farid Group of Institutions, Bathinda. The camp will present the government’s initiative to promote startups, ideation workshop, idea pitching sessions and train the trainers workshop.

The yatra encouraged the youth to nurture the new startup ideas and provided a platform to handhold budding entrepreneurs.