SAAKAR

SCAI presents SAAKAR – an event for scouting of entrepreneurs among the students from different education institutions and impart capability and inclination to start a business on grassroots innovation and example of traditional knowledge from NIFs database. Students are also offered venture capital to convert their business plans into enterprises a nationwide event. NIF in coordination with the agri-business club of IIM-A organized Amaethon- 2005.

SAAKAR serves the primary objectives of:

• Enabling students synergize their business acumen with grassroots genius. In the process, they can bring their classroom learning into practice and understand the ground realities of setting up enterprises,
• Helping students acquire entrepreneurial skills. Grassroots innovations and indigenous knowledge examples can be taken up by the students for setting up their own enterprise and commercializing the innovations
• Identifying the prospective entrepreneurs and mentors for commercializing the technologies.