Startup India Yatra – a Government of India initiative to promote startups, Thursday began from the Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute’s Jammu campus at Bari Brahmana.
The yatra was flagged off by the Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Sanjeev Verma and Director JKEDI, MI Parray in presence of ADC Samba Arun Manhas, Startup India team, representatives from many other line departments and the JKEDI team.
Startup India van (Yatra van) in its first leg stopped at the Central University of Jammu where it was received by the Vice Chancellor, Ashok Aima. On September 28, the van would travel to the University of Jammu for its first boot camp. The startup van will also travel to Katra for its second boot camp at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) where students would share their ideas with Startup India representatives. Later, the Startup India van will travel to other places like Srinagar, Pampore and Leh and hold boot camps in various colleges and universities across the state.