Date:15 july 2025
Event Venue: Seminar Hall, Block 5, SBBS University.
Organising unit/ agency/ collaborating agency: IBM Bangalore, India and Department of Management, UICM (University Institute of Commerce and Management) under the aegis of IQAC and IIC Sant Baba Bhag Singh University.
Name of the Event: ““Session on “Sustainable Livelihoods & Community Enterprises” Eco-System Based Startups”
Number of Faculty:07
Number of students participated in activity:88
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The Department of Management and Hotel Management of University Institute of Commerce and Management, Sant Baba Bhag Singh University, Jalandhar has organized “Sustainable Livelihoods & Community Enterprises” Eco-System Based Startups” under the aegis of IQAC and IIC, Sant Baba Bhag Singh University, the event was inaugurated by the Expert of the day Mr. Sarabjit Singh (Regional Manager, from IBM Jalandhar Branch). The expert briefly explained key definitions, significance of the sustainability and livelihood in the economy, after the introductory speech the expert throws the light on startup ideas mainly focuses on the ecosystem and sustainable development. In the session the expert explains the various methods and steps needed to be taken for choosing the entrepreneur over the job in long-run.
Additionally, the major focus of the session was on eco-based startup ideas which helps to sustain the environment and minimizing the natural resources in the enterprise.
In the second session, 2nd expert of the day Ms. Sangeeta commences the session with the recycle-based sustainable business ideas such as Temple flower recycles, bamboo-based startup ideas, solar energy-based startups etc., along with the practical examples and case studies of the successful running startups. Furthermore, the expert discusses the various schemes provided by the GOI for boost up these kinds of startups.
In the conclusion the session focused on eco-system sustainable based startup ideas, in the session experts discussed about the various opportunities and schemes for the boosting up of the startups by government of India.
In the valedictory Dr. Ajay Kumar Pathania (Associate Professor, Dy. Dean, UICM) Congratulate the students for the participation in the session with energy and enthusiasm, sincere gratitude to the Experts of the day for delivery the informative session. Furthermore Dr. Ajay Kumar Pathina, congratulate all the faculty members for the organizing the such events and instruct to organizing same kind of the events for enlighten the faculty, scholars and students.