EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 11: Vice Chancellor (VC), SKUAST-Jammu and SKUAST-Kashmir urged the incubatees that their innovative services and products should tap into the opportunities present in the market and plug the available gaps.
VC SKUAST-Jammu, Prof JP Sharma while chairing the Fifth R-ABI Incubation Committee (RIC) meeting of Agri Business Incubator, SKUAST-Jammu under the project RKVY-RAFTAAR which held through online mode at Main Campus, Chatha of SKUAST-Jammu greeted all experts and appreciated their all time support inspite of their busy schedule for selecting the right candidate under RKVY-RAFTAAR project sponsored by Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Govt. of India. Prof. Sharma in his concluding remarks said that the concept ideas presented by participants were worth appreciating and this is the time where start-up and entrepreneurship area(s) have high scope. Moreover various organizations viz DST, DBT etc are helping in promoting budding start-ups by providing funding under different schemes. Prof. Sharma appreciated the participants for their concepts and prototype(s) related to ICT, value addition and marketing. He also appreciated one of the farmers Vinod Kumar for his innovation in making flavoured and unique products from Jaggery.
Vice Chancellor congratulated and appreciated Prof Jyoti Kachroo, Head, AEABM and P.I of the project and her team for running the project successfully under her dynamic leadership.
The experts from different fields viz. Prof. Ashok Aima, Vice Chancellor, Central University Jammu, Dr Jag Paul Sharma, Director Research and Registrar, SKUAST-Jammu, K.K Sharma, Director Agriculture, Jammu, Dr Dileep Kachroo, ex-Registrar, SKUAST-Jammu, Annil Suri, MD, AB Industries, SIDCO Industrial Complex, Jammu; Priya Ranjan, AGM, NABARD, Ankush Kohli, Chartered Accountant, and Dr Amarjeet Singh, ICAR-IARI nominee, New Delhi attended the meeting through online mode and evaluated the business ideas of the participants. Business Executives of the project, Ashish Isher and Tarunjeet facilitated online streaming of the whole programme. At the end vote of thanks was presented by Dr Anil Bhat. |
