Students get business ideas at LPU fair

Our Correspondent

Phagwara, March 29

The second day of annual international fest ‘One World’ being held at Lovely Professional University (LPU), forwarded various entrepreneurship opportunities possible in other countries.

As the theme celebrated this year was ‘International Trade, Commerce and Industry’. As many as 3,000 students from 50 countries studying at LPU organised ‘Expo stalls’ for their respective country, in this context.

Students mutually shared salient features of various businesses of import and export favouring their own countries.They exchanged ideas about their produces, cultures, values, foods, dresses, dances, songs, heritage and historical perspectives.

LPU students imbibed from the fest that the principal exports of one of the poorest considered countries in the world, Liberia are iron ore, rubber, diamonds, and gold.

Yemen imports wheat, corn, rice, meat, pharmaceutical products, sugar and vehicles. Yemen (the word translated as a happy land) acquired the name because its mountains attract rain, making it more fertile than most of the Arabian Peninsula. Morija arts and cultural activities of Lesotho Kingdom educated students about promoting tourism and small-scale manufacturing.

It was exhibited at Sri-Lankan stall that major exports from India to Sri Lanka, include motor vehicles, fuels and oils, cotton, pharmaceuticals, plastic articles, iron, steel, chemicals, cement and sugar.

Students were informed that export process from India to Sri Lanka and other countries is almost same worldwide. Budding entrepreneurs were also forwarded detailed information on how to export from India.

Stident of Sri Lanka exhibited festival of gratitude to Sun ‘Thai Pongal’, festival of lights—Vesak Poya, and Buddhist festival of dances and richly decorated elephants-Esala Perahera.

Students said: “The event makes us practical with an elaborated insight into how world can be one, leaving aside all intrigues and self-interests. We have also come to understand that the unity among human beings lies in their diversity.”

Similar information were also readily available about other countries including China, Bhutan, Somalia, Malawi, Mali, Maldives, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mauritius and Tibet.