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School students to present start-up ideas at investment summit

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School students to present start-up ideas at investment summit
01 Mar 2022
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The Government of Delhi plans to hold the Business Blasters Investment Summit at Thyagaraj Stadium on March 5th. The event presents investors with over 100 top business ideas from public school students. 

Business Blasters is a school start-up program of the Delhi Government where 11th and 12th-grade students propose business ideas and the government helps shape those suggestions.

Manish Sisodia has announced that 51,000 startup ideas have been submitted by students of the Business Blasters initiative, 1,000 of which have been selected as finalists for the second round of the program. 

Deputy CM of Delhi also shared that up to 700 students can enroll directly in the BBA programs at state universities and colleges such as Delhi Technological University, Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, and the Netaji Subhas University of Technology.

Sisodia has also said that out of 1,000 ideas 100 plus student-led top business ideas have been selected. These ideas will be presented to investors. He has also invited business investors to invest in new business ideas and attend the summit. The shortlisted students have been given the training to answer all business-related questions.