Wainganga Incubation Foundation organised RASTA National Level startup and innovation
challenge on the occasion of Hon’ble shri Nitin Gadkari ji. The grand finale was hosted at
Nagpur. 180 Applications were received from across India, out which 20 shortlisted as a
finalist and has pitched at GRAND Finale at Nagpur.
The grand finale and award ceremony was graced by Hon’ble Shri Nitin Gadkari Ji, Union
Minister – Road and Transports as a chief guest. His inspiring word motivated all
participants, startups and attendance. The event was also graced by Shri Lohit Matani ji,
(IPS), SP – Highway State Patrol, Shri Shashikant Chaudhary Ji (Co-Founder – Happy
Eaters.ai), Shri Yogesh Bramhankar ji (Former Innovation Director – MoE, Govt. of India) as
a jury and speaker.
Award ceremony proceedings were done by Nidhi Bawashe, CEO, Wainganga Incubation
foundation, introduction and about RASTA initiative was shared by Shri Somadatta
Karanjekar, Chairman, Wainganga College of Engineering and Management and Director
Wainganga Incubation Foundation, and Shri Pradeep Dahikar and Smt. Sangita Deshmukh,
Wainganga Incubation Foundation board of members were also present.
The shortlisted startups were travelled from Jaipur, Kanyakumari, Chennai, Hyderabad,
Noida, Pune, and other part of India.
The first prize (1.5 lakh)– Origin Hash, 2 nd prize (1 lakh) – Yatharth Labs, 3 rd prize (50,000/-)–
Innovaclad, Best Deeptech (25,000/-) – Subltbotic, Best Defence (25,000/-) – Senzova
Technologies, Best Agritech (25,000/-) – AVN Agro.
The event was also attended and graced by industry members Dr. Tejinder Singh Rawal, Dr.
Rashmi Bansal, Sachin Farfad Patil, Aakash Singh, Tushar Vadhera, incubator from
Vidarbha – Shri Amol Hirulkar (SGBAU Research and Incubation, Amaravati University, Shri
Abhay Deshmukh (Incubein – Foundation Nagpur University), Shri Ashutosh Bagde (BioNest
– DHIMER, Wardha), Shri Kushal Katara (Raisoni TBI Foundation).
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