IKGPTU main campus team wins TAP Business Plan Competition

Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, May 31

IK Gujral Punjab Technical University’s main campus students won the prestigious TAP Business Plan Competition. This was a team activity and a joint venture of IKGPTU and TiE. It was a tough competition in which 27 teams from the United States, India, Canada, Pakistan, the UAE, Germany and Israel participated. The name of this winning team was Team Squencoff. The same team had also represented IKGPTU and TiE in the Global Pitch Competition and was awarded $500.

Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Ajay Kumar Sharma congratulated the team, the faculty and staff who were involved in the preparation of this team competition. Dr Sharma also congratulated the university family and inspired all to celebrate this achievement technologically so that students may achieve more at global level. Prof Sharma also interacted with students at his office and motivated them to become entrepreneurs in future. He declared a free plug and play facility at university campus for all the winning teams. He also congratulated the organising team for conducting the entire competition online from registration to result declaration.

University Registrar Sandeep Kumar Kazal also congratulated the team through a message. In his message, the Registrar said the achievement itself proved that IKGPTU is preparing its students at par with global education syllabi. This is the outcome of great efforts of university faculty and staff who are having global exposures.

Navdeepak Sandhu, Deputy Director (Corporate Relations), IKGPTU, shared that 151 teams from across Punjab were registered for TAP Business Plan Competition. Out of which, 32 teams were shortlisted by the jury. These teams were mentored by CEOs or founders of TiE member companies for one month to make their plans viable before the final pitching. Hirdesh Madan, president, TiE, Chandigarh, said that TiE would handhold all teams to take their plans to the next level.

Drishti, Vani, Monika (all from Department of Food Science and Technology) and Manjinder Singh (Department of CSE) were the members of this winning team. Dr Gazal Sharma, assistant professor, IKGPTU, and Sumeet Kaur (TiE member) were the mentors of this team.