Media Release

Mangaluru, Nov 18: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cell of St Aloysius College (Autonomous), here, organised a webinar on the theme ‘Start-ups at New Normal: A Journey of an Entrepreneur’ on November 17 via zoom platform.

Harish Hande, Ramon Magsaysay awardee, co-founder of SELCO was the eminent resource person for the webinar. Dr Suresh Poojary, the dean of Research and Innovation Cell welcomed the gathering while Fr Dr Praveen Martis SJ, principal, gave his presidential remarks.

The social entrepreneur, Hande spoke about creating an enterprise that is inclusive, harmless and beneficial to increase the quality of life of every living and non-living being. He stressed on being efficient and contributing toward sustainable development. Hande also motivated the youth to convert the crisis into an opportunity by providing solutions to the plethora of issues India faces, thus becoming solution providers or change agents by using education as a tool.

He urged the students to have five solutions to a problem they see from college to home and thus mature the habit of finding solutions rather than accusing others for the difficulties seen around. He also mentioned about destroying the idea of comparing financial poverty with intellectual poverty and prioritized the focus on justice and equality. Harish Hande also suggested to the participants to reverse the way they think and speak and bring in a social change.

The participants for the webinar included the student community and academicians. This was an initiative to promote innovation in enterprising activities, especially among the student community.

The webinar was anchored by Akshatha while Mamatha, the dean of the Entrepreneurship and Consultancy Cell proposed the vote of thanks.