Day 4: 5th March, 2014

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur

Presents

Entrepreneurship Week (Abhyudaya 2014) –Youth Festival

2-7 March, 2014

Theme: Innovating for India

Day 4: 5^th March, 2014

Mandi – Business Baazigar

Prerana & Priyamvada talks about their campus mandi and much talked about Prayaas - E-cell initiative at Jaipuria Jaipur. These enthusiastic student states "Mandi was just the trailer, film to baaki hai mere dost"

March5, 2013, room no. 005 was all packed with mixed feelings of aggressive selling, alluring future managers with unique products, multi colored decorations, and spirit to earn more and more money projecting their ideas and products as unique. The event was the “MANDI” organized by Prayaas E- Cell, Jaipuria Jaipur. Mandi was a program where students worked on right from conceptualizing of idea to selling products to become serial entrepreneurs. Mandi was the time to use all management fundas used in class, mixed with enthusiasm and risk taking abilities. The variety of offerings ranged from customized handmade products, delicious moth watering delicacies to beautician and laundry services.

 “MANDI”, yet another feather in the cap of E cell - Prayaas. All sellers tried to commercialize their inherent to the maximum possible extent and generate maximum revenue.  Some fighting for break-even whereas some managed to generate as much as 200% revenue! And even the group that generated 200% revenue faced stiff competition from another group which made Zero investment and made good use of their inherent skills.

“It started with curiosity to know, how it feels to enter into a venture and make it a success.  So there we were trying our hands on this inner inquisitiveness of being an entrepreneur, our idea was to capitalize on our talent and devote our strength and energy for participating in this event. (Whatever was left after tormenting classroom session). The faculty and students assisting as volunteers were encouraging and highly spirited about the whole process and it was an experience worth cherishing all our life.” Says students.

When asked, how the concept of mandi is helpul in future business initiatives, guess what Tanya & Suchi has to say, “After participating in mandi we found that managing even a small business was not so easy. Lot many things go side by side, proper attention is required for each aspect. Knowledge of one particular function is not enough; it requires knowledge of every function like marketing, finance, selling, operations etc.”

AUCTION...!!

T-shirts made by jaipuria’s students auctioned at jaipuria institute of management during mandi event an auction activity was performed by study group number 3.  The t-shirt’s painted by students for t-shirt painting competition were auctioned with lines “Batorlo aapne dosto ki kushiya..’’ the event was hosted by vishal Sharma. The t-shirts painted were sold with different prices. Some took it for their friends. It was a joyful event people enjoyed the interesting prices at which the t-shirts were sold at.

 

In toto, Mandi aroused those entrepreneurial spirits which would either have got lost in search of opportunity or would have never seen the light of the day because of secured job preference among the youth. Entrepreneur works for himself and the amount of labour - be it physical or mental is tremendous. Therefore, few people try to put their feet in entrepreneurial shoes and after that only few survive. But their survival depends not only the on product they are selling, but the strategies they are crafting and executing. Therefore, this becomes the survival of the fittest. Everyday is a real Mandi, where one has to survive. Mandi not just tested the wits and guts of the budding entrepreneurs, right from the inception of a business idea to its execution, but also aimed at grooming their business instincts and ability to convince the people to buy their product. At the end of the day two bet business baazigar’s at Jaipuria Jaipur were adjudged.

Blood Donation Camp

Donating Blood is a life saving measure especially when you have a rare blood type. Blood donation is safe and simple. It takes only about 10 minutes to donate blood - less than the time of an average telephone call, says students of Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur. To motivate, and familiarize students with the importance of voluntary Blood Donation Jaipuria Jaipur in association with Swasthaya Kalyan Blood Bank, Jaipur and Metro Mas Hospital organized voluntary blood donation camp on 5^th March, 2014 during E-week – Abhyudaya – Youth festival in campus.

Lauding the noble initiative of Jaipuria students, and donors, Dr. Sheenu Jain, Coordinator, Parivartan – CSR initiative said, that nothing is more ennobling and satisfying than to donate blood for someone else’s life. But there are very less people who understand this and come forward to contribute in this life saving effort. She called upon students to understand the importance of regular, voluntary and non- remunerated blood donation which can avert a significant number of deaths. Entire Parivartan team also motivated the donors during the blood donation camp.

Approximately 80 students, volunteers, and faculty members thronged to donate blood. Besides, a test for HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Malaria, and blood group will be done and the subsequent report will be sent on the postal address of the respective donors.  It was heartening to see that the institute succeeded in infusing the spirit of participation amongst students for the cause. The entire blood donation camp was planned and coordinated so well by Mr. Hemant Baweja.

Photography – Bottom up Innovation

Snatch it up- is what we called our young photo enthusiasts who were roaming all around to click a Bomb. The competition revealed a deep understanding of how corruption is a cancer on society that must be stopped.

We asked participants aged between 18 and 25 years old to send images of the damaging effects of corruption on their world or to make us visualize what people can do to stop it.

“The extraordinary talent exhibited in the hundreds of submissions shows young people around the city understand the terrible damage wrought by corruption and reveals a sincere desire to stop it. Young people clearly want to take a stand against corruption,” said Dr. Sheenu Jainn, coordinating photography competition.