Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 17: The two-day Youth Conclave organized by CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu as a part of its endeavour to promote startup entrepreneurship ecosystem in the region concluded, here today.
The mega event held at Police Auditorium, Gulshan Ground (Jammu) was inaugurated on Saturday by Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science and Technology and vice president, CSIR. The event attracted huge crowd of young innovators, entrepreneurs, students, scholars and members of civil society.
On Day 2 of the event as well, an overwhelming response of visitors was seen as more than 300 students, scholars and faculty of various academic and scientific institutions of Jammu region visited and witnessed the products and innovations put on display by the Startup.
A total of 25 startups participated from across Jammu and Kashmir and showcased their innovations, They included Paradox Sonic Space Research Association (PSSR India), Himalayan Essential Oils Producer Company Limited, JP Life Science, JK Aroma Limited, Happy Hearts, Herbal Aura, Pi Jam. Stalls were also put up by Technology Business Incubator, BioNest Bio-Incubation Centre, AIC Atal Incubation Centre and Aroma Mission from CSIR-IIIM.
At the valedictory function of Youth Conclave held here, Dr Zabeer Ahmed, Director, CSIR-IIIM said that Institution has established facilities to provide all kind of support to the budding innovators and startup and thus offered them to avail the benefit from the institutional incubators. He further mentioned that CSIR-IIIM incubators would soon launch an interactive web-portal where readily information would be available for the guidance startup and entrepreneurs.
On the occasion, Director, CSIR-IIIM also felicitated the participating startup. The event was organized under the patronage of Director CSIR-IIIM Jammu and overall supervision of Abdul Rahim, Chief Scientist. Anil Katare and Dr Saurabh Saran coordinated the event.
Dr Asha Chaubey, Dr Dhiraj Vyas, Dr Sumit Gandhi, Dr Deepika Singh, Dr Naveed Qazi, Vikram Singh, Ajay Kumar, Dr Shashank Singh, Dr Tasduq Abdullah, Rajinder Kumar, Rajesh Gupta, Bhupinder Singh and Daleep Gehlot were the organizing committee members for the event.
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