Four NMIMS students' idea won the prize at the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition in the US
"We offered a Nano-type food product for the slumdwellers and it won a global award," said a jubilant Sreejit NG.
Sreejit and his colleagues Ankit Jain, Siddharth Bedi, Rahul Kumar Agrawal — all students of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) — won the $10,000 grand prize at the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. The product they offered was a full nutritious meal for slumdwellers containing rice, lentils, vegetable peels and jaggery for just Rs5.