The National Innovation and Start-up Policy for Students and Faculty in HEIs was launched by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. This policy intends to guide HEIs for promoting students’ driven innovations & start-ups and to engage the students and faculty in innovation and start-up activities on campus. The policy aims at enabling HEIs to build, streamline and strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in campus and will be instrumental in leveraging the potential of student’s creative problem solving and entrepreneurial mind-set, and promoting a strong intra and inter-institutional partnerships with ecosystem enablers and different stakeholders at regional, national and international level.
To develop a resourceful innovation and start-up ecosystem and facility that will nurture innovative, socially relevant ventures, strengthening local and national economies and benefiting mankind at large.
| S.No. | Role in Committee | Name | Designation & Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chairman | Dr. R.D. Patidar | Vice Chancellor, OP Jindal University |
| 2 | NISP Coordinator | Dr. Saket Jeswani | Assistant Dean & Head, School of Management, OPJU |
| 3 | Member | Dr. Siddharth S. Chakrabarti | Director, Centre for Industry-Academia Collaboration, OPJU |
| 4 | Member | Dr. Girish Mishra | Associate Dean, School of Science, OPJU |
| 5 | Member | Dr. Shesadev Nayak | Professor, School of Management, OPJU |
| 6 | Member | Dr. Himanshu Vaishnaw | Asst Prof, SoM, OPJU |
| 7 | Member | Dr. Deepayan Priyadarshi | Asst Prof, Civil Engineering, OPJU |
| 8 | Member | Dr. Sandeep Biswal | Asst Prof, Electrical Engineering, OPJU |
| 9 | Member | Dr. Vatsala Chaturvedi | Asst Prof, Metallurgical Engineering, OPJU |
| 10 | Member | Dr. Akash Pandey | Asst Prof, Mechanical Engineering, OPJU |
| 11 | External Member | Mr. Sweekar Pawar | Head, 36inc, Raipur |
| 12 | External Member | Mr. Bhavesh Kumar | Managing Director, VIAS3D, India |
