Jharkhand Small Industries Association (JSIA) and Department of Management, BIT Mesra has signed an MOU with an aim is to promote, protect, and represent on behalf of MSME organizations of Jharkhand State before all department, offices or bodies, whether private, Government and continuously support and take all such initiatives to ensure smooth working.
JSIA in association with Department of Management, BIT, Mesra has organised the prize distribution ceremony of their event ‘Abhyudaya 21, a Business Plan Competition’ wherein Union Minister of State for Education, Annapurna Devi, was the Chief Guest for the event. The Minister joined the event through an online video conferencing facility and graced the event.
JSIA and Department of Management, BIT Mesra, both aspire to excel as premier MSME Association and to bring Jharkhand State as a hub of MSME unit with excellence in working atmosphere.
As a first step of this association, JSIA in collaboration with the Department of Management, BIT Mesra had organised ‘Abhyudaya 21 a Business Plan Competition’ to promote the start-up ecosystem of Jharkhand. The visionary framework has been devised by JSIA, which has pledged to provide incubation as well as hands-on support to the creative minds of tomorrow for the greater good of the State.
Total application received from people in/of Jharkhand was 638 for the completion and total people qualified for final submission were 122. The qualified and technical team of BIT has selected Top 20 based on the qualification criteria laid down by the team.
The final programme of the event was conducted on June 4 and 5 wherein the top 10 finalists pitched their ideas before the jury member. The jury member, after listening to the pitch by each team, and several rounds of question and answers, evaluated each team and declared the Top 5 and winner of the event.
The winner of the event BlisCare – founded by Chinmaya Naik is an Edutech start-up that aims to provide affordable digital classroom solutions for the students in the visually impaired community. They have developed a Braille Tablet that will replicate any text, graphical diagram/map to standard Braille, at a fraction of cost compared to currently used technologies.
The event was attended by President JSIA, Philip Mathew, RP Shahi, Shri Anjay Pachariwala, Arun.Khemka, Jaydeep Modi, Bikas Singh, Kanishka Poddar and many other dignitaries and industrialists of Jharkhand.