Developing Start-up Using Local Resources

On 29.3.2022 Entrepreneurship Development Cell in association with Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a seminar on “Developing Start-up Using Local Resources”. The Programme started with the prayer by Prof.Dr.G.Aravind Swaminathan. The session was handled by Dr.P.Lourdes Poobala Rayen, Director-EDC, President, IIC and IIC Innovation Ambassador, Francis Xavier Engineering College. He explained how to start a startup and for the development of a startup how the locally available resources can be used for the development of new products. He listed the untapped local resources which can be used for the production of new product like Coco peat, extraction of fibre from the banana stem, extracting the juice from lime, making value added products using the locally available vegetables etc. He raised lot of questions to the participants about the problems faced by the farmers to find out a suitable solution to overcome the problems. He also explained about the various funding opportunities available to start startup. The Program was arranged for III year Computer Science and Engineering students. The students actively participated in this seminar and gathered lot of insight about developing startup. The event was co-ordinated by Mr. M.Mukesh Krishnan, AP/CSE and the EDC Coordinator.