Active participation of Home Science College in Virtual International Summit TECH4SEVA 2021

Chandigarh, October 28, 2021: Government Home Science College Chandigarh actively participated in four day Virtual Summit TECH4SEVA organised by Vijnana Bharti (VIBHA), Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) and Centre for innovation and Bio Design (CiBiOD), PGIMER, Chandigarh from Oct 20- 23, 2021. The college exhibited its virtual stall in this four day online expo based on the theme of Atmanirbhar Bharat, environmental friendly, and sustainable technologies, affordable health care and technology for good agricultural practices. The virtual stall of the college exhibited the seven different innovative startups run by the college students and alumna. The college stall attracted a large number of delegates out of the 24 total virtual stalls in the exhibition. Approximately more than 500 visitors visited the virtual expo. 
The budding entrepreneur of the college Anupreet Kaur Sobti virtually exhibited her stall named Dietaura based on the affordable healthcare and sustainable technologies giving a message of healthy eating with low cost diet recipes. Another stall Satvik foods put up by alumna of the college was based on the traditional foods and healthy eating habits. Stalls displayed by the Clothing and Textile department, based on the eco-friendly tie and dye, organic soaps and sanitizers successfully depicted the idea of environmental friendly and sustainable technologies.Department of Human Development and Family Relations virtually exhibited the hand made and child friendly soft toys. Another budding entrepreneur of the college Nimran Kaur virtually exhibited her stall of Golden Ashet based on serving a golden platter consisting of desserts, charcuterie board and amazing grazing made up of freshly grown organic products in the kitchen garden. Budding entrepreneur and student Nidhi running her startup named The Knot store exhibited amazing and beautifully woven variety of Macrame art products.
Principal Prof. Sudha Katyal expressed her gratitude to the team of Centre for Innovation and Bio Design (CiBiOD) for giving an opportunity to the college students and budding entrepreneurs for being part of this international online expo and successfully achieving the goals of Atmanirbhar and Unnat Bharat. She added that it was a new learning experience for faculty members and students to be a part of such on line exhibition where virtual spaces were 3 D created and allowed the delegates to navigate to different exhibitor's profile through digital platform.