SACC To Setup Startup Hub in SUS Tangori

By 121 News Reporter

Chandigarh 03^rd September:- Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce (SACC) would be setting up a state-of-the-art Startup Hub in the campus of Shaheed Udham Singh (SUS) Group of Institutes at Tangori. A memorandum of understanding was signed by Manipal Dhariwal, President of SACC and Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu, chairman of the SUS Group of Institutes.

Manipal Dhariwal said that encouraging entrepreneurship is the core objective of SACC, and in the process, develop a robust enabling ecosystem that could help startups to thrive. He further said that Punjabis are equipped with the entrepreneurial genes that makes them into productive risk takers and innovators, and only thing lacking here is mentoring, incubating and funding, which SACC through its own strong network within and outside the country is strategizing to plug the holes. Manipal Dhariwal informed that SACC has been approached by a number of educational institutes to setup the Startup Hubs to encourage entrepreneurship and help their students incubate their ideas,

Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu, chairman of the SUS Group of Institutes said that SACC has already established a track record of transforming students into entrepreneurs with its successful Startup Weekend held in July, and our students are now looking at the success stories of the youngsters who topped in this event from our institute. He added that SACC is already nurturing and mentoring the team of five youngsters in setting up their own company and marketing their products.The future of our country lies in entrepreneurship and with organizations like SACC there to hand-hold the youngsters with ideas to help them convert it into an innovative business solution, the new generation has a great future to look forward to, he remarked.

SACC through its collaboration with US based UP Global to organize 54-hours Startup Weekends, and having successfully organized at EDC in July, is all set to take this exciting entrepreneurial programme to other colleges including Chandigarh University's two campuses, at SUS Tangori, and University of Petroleum in Dehradun.