VAC bags Hult Prize presenting job-search portal ideas

By Birat Anupam, SUNSARI:- A student team representing Vishwa Adarsha College (VAC) of Itahari has bagged the first prize of Hult Prize at Purbanchal Engineering Campus of Dharan.
The business idea was about job portal. The competitive entrepreneurial function was organized at the architectural hall at the TU constituent campus on Saturday afternoon.
Among the eight teams from campuses of Dharan, Itahari and Biratnagar, Team Green Grain IOE Dharan and Team Udaan of Mahendra Multiple Campus of Biratnagar stood second and third respectively. Both teams were focused on agricultural areas.
Participants from all eight teams had presented their innovative start-up business ideas to the hall and the panel of the judges. ”The Hult Prize winner will have chance to participate in the regional summit and second and third position-holders would also have opportunities for possible wild card entries,” informed Pravash Gautam, the man behind this global function at the campus.
Hult Prize is an annual, yearlong competition that crowd-sources ideas from university level students. It has 1 million USD prize for the international winner. Umesh Bhandari, one of the four judges of the competition, said it was great to host such competitions in all campuses. ”I felt excited to see the gradual move of Nepal’s education sector from theoretical front to practical actions.’ RSS