Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 23: The two days long National Startup Festival (NSF) organized by CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) was concluded here today.
The festival showcased remarkable success stories in startup promotion, innovation and entrepreneurial growth across Jammu & Kashmir.
The two-day festival was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office.
The event held attracted huge crowd of students drawn from various degree colleges and schools of Jammu region to provide a platform to the entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, scientists, researchers, bio-incubators, manufacturers, regulators and members of civil society to witness the technologies and innovation showcased during the festival.
In a press handout, it was stated that an overwhelming response of visitors has been seen today as well, more than 800 visitors visited the exhibition and witnessed the demonstration of innovation driven ideas some startups and the products and technologies developed by few of them.
Dr Zabeer Ahmed, Director, CSIR-IIIM in his address said that besides the institute’s forte in the pre-clinical drug discovery, under the mentoring of Union Minister of S&T and Vice President, Dr Jitendra Singh, IIIM has equally galvanised agri- entrepreneurship and set up two incubators for incubation support to the startup.
“To set up a new Incubator at Industrial Biotech Park, Ghatti, Kathua, the Grant-in-aid letter agreement (GLA) was also signed yesterday by Director, CSIR-IIIM and MD, BIRAC in the presence of the Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh,” he added.
Recognizing the innovative works of the startup they showcased during the event, Dr Zabeer Ahmed, Director, CSIR-IIIM awarded the certificates to 45 startups.
Some of the prominent Startups those took part in the Expo included M/s Herbal Aura, M/s Gaurico, M/s One Veda, M/s Happico, M/s Gleen Biotech, M/s Himalayan Essential Oils Producer Company Ltd., M/s JK Aroma Ltd. Samast Eco Alternatives Pvt. Ltd. M/s SRANAS POC Pvt Ltd M/s Chenab Valley Zaitoon Tel Ltd M/s Katyani Metal Works and the farmers led by Dr Hygina from Meghalaya.
Students from various Government Degree Colleges of Jammu district also actively participated in the event.
The stalls were also put by young innovators of Jammu district school.
The event was organised under the overall supervision of Dr Zabeer Ahmed assisted by his team of HoDs and Scientists, including Abdul Rahim, Dr Asha Chaubey, Dr Dhiraj Vyas, Dr Shashank Singh, Dr Sumit Gandhi, Dr Naveed Qazi, Dr Suphla Gupta, Dr Saurabh Saran, Dr Raj Kishore, Vikram Singh, Ajay Kumar, Dilip Gehlot and Rajesh Gupta.
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