With a view to encourage grassroots innovators and promote entrepreneurship among the students and youths, the Startup Odisha Yatra and the Startup Xpress have witnessed record number of ideas within just two weeks. Over 2,050 ideas have been generated so far, as the yatra continues its dream run across the State, already covering two-thirds of the districts.
The target is to recognise and nurture 5,000 Startups by 2025.
So far, the Yatra has covered 22 districts of the State, visiting 128 colleges and 42 schools with participation from more than 17,362 students. On Saturday, the vans visited eight colleges and three schools, received 92 ideas with participation from 1,155 students. An interesting bootcamp was conducted at IIT Bhubaneswar and it collected 10 ideas with participation from 78 students.
The Yatra covered 4 colleges of Sambalpur district namely IIM Sambalpur, Sambalpur University, VSSUT Burla and Badri Prasad Institute of Technology. In Balangir district, the vans visited Government College, Balangir, CUTM Balangir and Government Girls High School, Balangir. In Kalahandi district, the van visited two schools, namely KV Bhawanipatna and BM High School. In Angul, the van reached Government Polytechnic, Angul, Government Autonomous College, Angul and Talcher Autonomous College, Talcher.
The excitement and enthusiasm from the student community was palpable with their passionate pitches.