When I got into college in 2013, start-up culture was slowly getting into pace.

I, being new to this

whole concept was fascinated by the idea of how startups were providing business solutions to an
existing problem or filling a service gap that existed in the present system. This whole culture got a
boon with incoming of 4G, everyone was talking about e-commerce, e-wallets which were primarily
leading this whole venture.
As NIT Uttarakhand was new there was a need for such a committee, even though we used to
organize workshop and events for motivating student for innovating but there was no platform to
support and guide them in long run. So, during my fourth year of graduation, I along with other
members of the event organizing team discussed the feasibility of an Entrepreneurship cell with
innovation chairperson. He asked us to build a draft around its functioning, feasible events, and other
aspects. We organized workshop by NIESBUD, for getting insight into functioning of start-up
incubators and how the government is supporting start-up culture. Then as per research and
suggestion gained by us, we created a draft for E-cell and by the end of the semester, it was approved
by the Director of NIT Uttarakhand. Which was really a big achievement for us and as well as the
institute.
Also, I have done 4 months internship in a start-up which was operating in a start-up incubator of
Ahmedabad University, therefore have a glimpse of the opportunities, learning, and contribution that
can happen in such a conducive environment.
After work, in such diverse environments, I want to experience and learn from working off a full-
fledged incubator as a whole. Where Events like Start-O-Sphere, Stayin Alive Entrepreneurship,
Dhanda give a real glimpse of management in the application and allow us to learn from events and
then innovate and implement further.
Especially the concept of UNARUKA the women entrepreneur summit is great, this shows that how
ingrained diversity is in IIM Kozhikode’s values that we are organizing events for empowering
women at every level.
I’ll hope you give me the chance to contribute to the continuing success of the E-cell through my skill
set, which I will look to further develop during my time there.