Sirjan Regional Rounds West Zone

        The realization of the first half of the second marathon attempt (in relation to the resources available) towards Disha’s self proclaimed goal of “inspiring an entrepreneurial wave throughout the Nation, that’ll play a significant role in changing the Nation’s tomorrow by working on the Nation’s DNA” may have looked seamless to most outsiders, was incongruently perhaps a little less accurate. We did have few last moment hick ups with one of our judges falling ill and few teams not being able to turn up at the venue despite our efforts of reaching them.

      There were a total of nine teams selected for the West Zone regional round however only four could make it to the venue. The business plans shared were in general appreciated by all judges and participants alike. Their enthusiasm was noticeable, perhaps even over brimming for some. From our past year’s experience this was not very surprising.

      What happened well perhaps was that we still managed to touch a lot of lives in the process which arguably is the most sustaining change introduced at the DNA level which is what we aspire for. We had teams from non business backgrounds who got an opportunity to get inputs from the panel of our judges which was an immense value add for them.

      

      We would also like to appreciate the efforts of the volunteers from VJTI e-cell in assisting us with organizing the event. They too being from the engineering background had an interaction with the judges and participants that helped them understand the dynamics related to entrepreneurship. We also propagated our belief that entrepreneurship was a bent of mind that was as useful in the corporate and social sectors as it is for startups.

      

     Both participants and judges shared rich feedback with us which we are in the process of incorporating in our operations going forward. All judges shared intentions of sustaining their patronage to Srijan in the forthcoming years as well.

    

     All in all the day turned out to be fairly eventful and perhaps in a number of ways the event was fulfilling in the context of our aspirations with the platform of Srijan. This experience has also made us more confident and determined of our vision about the Nation’s tomorrow.

Contributed by Surjodoy Ghosh, Manager Disha.