Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Samadhan '07 - The Social Entrepreneurship Contest

Samadhan is a social entrepreneurship B-Plan competition organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC), IIT Roorkee . It is an initiative to encourage budding entrepreneurs to realize their dreams . Samadhan believes that economic growth must be multiplexed with social equity for the nation to move forward . It is this thinking which has led to the birth of Samadhan .For the last two years, Samadhan has been encouraging the idea of social entrepreneurship successfully .

Samadhan‘07 is an integral part of Thomso’07 ,the annual cultural festival of IIT Roorkee. Thomso is one of the biggest youth festivals of India. The scale and importance of the fest in this region is apparent with its declaration as the "Annual Youth Festival of Uttarakhand", by the Government of Uttarakhand. Thomso'07 will also grow by leaps and bounds this year and is expected to have a participation of 5000 students from IITs, IIMs, NITs and many other colleges across the country, apart from the 4500 students of IIT Roorkee itself.

Samadhan gives a chance for the youth of the country to take time away from festivities and tackle the problems facing our beautiful nation and the world at large. In the wake of large climatic and ecological misbalances created by man on account of his negligence, GLOBAL WARMING has been chosen as this year’s theme.

Global Warming is threatening the very existence of our planet .It is a key concern across boundaries . It is important to understand the significance that global warming has on not only our earth, but our daily lives as well. It’s also important to understand the effects of global warming that our children and grandchildren will experience in the years to come if things continue the way they are now In order that our future generations enjoy this planet as much as we do, a lot of efforts are needed in order to keep this planet habitable.Our effort might only be a drop in the ocean but the ocean would be incomplete without the drop.

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