On the occasion
of 74th independence day, following the Atmanirbhar initiative of our prime
minister We at NITIE college as a part of 16th edition of Swadeshi mandi along with Marketing interest
group(MIG) started Vocal for Local campaign and for the inauguration ceremony we had
the presence of our Chief Guest, Shri Abhay Jere, Chief Innovative Officer,
Ministry of Education, GOI, and Apeksha
Haldia the alumnus of NITIE batch of 2007-09, Founder- Zayka Ka Tadka along
with Prof. Manoj Tiwari, Director, NITIE and our beloved T prasad (Mandi) sir the founder of Mandi event
Slogan of Mandi
Shri Abhay
Jere in his speech explained the position of India compared to other countries In
innovation and technology development index and also said that while our
competitor countries are registering lakhs of patent rights a year our country
has registered significantly less amount of patent rights and it’s the need of
the hour to emphasize on innovation and startups and business communication development
skills and how unique programs like swadeshi mandi are helping a lot for
developing business communication skills and developing world-class Innovators
Apeksha Haldia
, founder of Zayka ka Tadka, India's first and only Live cooking video
platform for moms and homemakers with over 4 million followers. It was invited by Facebook India amongst the top 10
content creators in food space alongside Sanjeev Kapoor, Archana's Kitchen and
Your Food Lab.
Apeksha shared
her college days mandi experience how she sold her goods and a masters graduate from University of Washington in sports
& Athletics leadership she also worked in P&G , following her passion
she left her job and along with her mother started own startup which is running
very successfully, she explained to follow our passion and to create startups
money is not a constraint as she started her startup journey with only a 5000 phone
and she also said that there are number of possibilities to create startups all
it takes is the courage and proper planning to succeed