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 interinstitutional 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, OP Jindal University |
| 3 | Member | Dr. Siddharth S. Chakrabarti | Director, Centre for Industry-Academia Collaboration, OP Jindal University |
| 4 | Member | Dr. Girish Mishra | Associate Dean, School of Science, OP Jindal University |
| 5 | Member | Dr. Shesadev Nayak | Professor, School of Management, OP Jindal University |
| 6 | Member | Dr. Himanshu Vaishnaw | Asst Prof, SOM, OP Jindal University |
| 7 | Member | Dr. Deepayan Priyadarshi | Asst Prof, Civil, OP Jindal University |
| 8 | Member | Dr. Sandeep Biswal | Asst Prof, Department of Electrical Engineering, OP Jindal University |
| 9 | Member | Dr. Vatsala Chaturvedi | Asst Prof, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, OP Jindal University |
| 10 | Member | Dr. Akash Pandey | Asst Prof, Department of Mechanical Engineering, OP Jindal University |
| 11 | External Member (Nearby Incubator Representative) | Mr. Sweekar Pawar | Head, 36inc, Raipur |
| 12 | External Member (Industry/Research Body) | Mr. Bhavesh Kumar | Managing Director, VIAS3D, India |
