Tribune News Service

Jalandhar November 25

Tanishka Anand, a second year student of B Com Financial Services from DAV College, Jalandhar, has added another feather to her cap by becoming the only student from Punjab to join the next round of national level Hult Prize Championship.

She is participating as the representative of the Guru Nanak Dev University after passing the first stage for the Hult Award, supported by the United Nations and Clinton Foundation.

Elated over her achievement, Anand said, “The Hult Prize is a year-long competition in which MBA and college students participate. The ultimate prize to the winning team is in the form of a seed capital of one million dollars. It is seeded in the new startup which the winning team will run. It promotes entrepreneurship and is a huge platform to increase communication skills in the corporate world which is the need of the hour for a commerce student or any field student who wants to enter the corporate sector.”

The Hult Prize is a year-long competition in which MBA and college students participate. The ultimate prize to the winning team is in the form of a seed capital of one million dollars. It is seeded in the new startup which the winning team will run. It helps in promoting entrepreneurship. —Tanishka Anand, DAV College

“This competition challenges the participants to solve a pressing social issue like food security, water access and energy,” she added.

On this occasion, Principal Dr SK Arora expressed his happiness and congratulated Tanishka. He said it was a matter of great pride that a student of their college would compete with the best participants of the world for the International Award such as Hult Award. He wished good luck to Tanishka Anand for the competition ahead.

In the month of June this year, she also cracked an online test to be the brand ambassador of the United Nations Indian Team V Force for the Covid-19 group.

Aspiring to become a successful entrepreneur, she has been selected to make masses aware of Covid-19.