Srishti - The Creation

Event Introduction

Shrishti- The Creation is a development plan competition for the socially conscious young minds. Participants will be designing a feasible entrepreneurial venture that will bring about economic and social development of a natural disaster affected region. With participants from world over, this event seeks to ignite the spirit of social entrepreneurship.

Prizes worth INR 15,000 to be won.

Deadline for submission is IST 23:55 HRS, October 20th, 2009

There will be no further extension of the deadline

Click here to download the Shrishti problem statement

Winners

First Place

Second Place

Problem Statement

The world suffers profoundly from natural disasters causing various degrees of destruction. Floods, droughts, landslides, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunami, climatic changes and other natural calamities have left several parts of the world in a devastated state. The governments and the NGOs play an important role in the rescue and relief efforts post such calamities. But the social and economic insecurity that haunts the affected inhabitants are hardly tackled efficiently.

You are a ^[1]social entrepreneur concerned about this situation. With your knowledge and leadership skills you decide to address this issue by introducing a feasible entrepreneurial venture in the affected area. The venture must include the inhabitants of the area and respect their land and traditions. You can choose any real region [village/town] in the country of which you are a citizen. The region should have been affected by a natural catastrophe in the last 10 years.

In your write-up you must clearly mention -

• The location of the disaster affected region and its features [you can attach a map of the region if available]
• Description of the natural calamity.
• Effects of the natural calamity on the resources of the region, its economy, lives and livelihood of the people (participants could make some logical assumptions here if sufficient data is not available).
• The new entrepreneurial venture which you intend to introduce for the economic revival of the affected region.
• Implementation details of your idea including ^[2]capital investment, resources used and the approximate time required.
• The overall socio-economic impact of the venture.
• The sources of facts and figures that you collected on the region.

Rules and Regulations

• A team can consist of a maximum of three participants.
• Only one submission per team is allowed.
• A member of the team is required to login and upload (or mail it to srishti@engineer.org.in) the detailed write up on their proposal in PDF( or DOC) in less than 20 pages in the space provided.
• The front page of the submission should clearly mention the following:
  • Team name
  • Name(s) of the team members along with their email ids
  • College(s) or University
  • Geographic location of the affected region selected
• The formatting should be as follows:
  • Headings: Bold, Size: 14
  • Paragraph text: Times New Roman, Size 12
• Suitable diagrams and/ or pictures may be used where required.

Evaluation criteria:

• Understanding of the problem statement.
• Details of the calamity and its impact on the region selected [sources of information & assumptions made has to be quoted clearly].
• Feasibility and sustainability of the plan proposed for the region.

Contact details:

• Pallavi Maiya : +91-9449970222
• Riteja : +91-9900405975
• You can email your queries to srishti@engineer.org.in