Omkar Moye - JBIMS Marketing student shares his experience at MUNIJAN

I was a part of the team ‘’Sawaa Shares’’ representing Jamnalal Bajaj Institute Of Management Studies at MUNIJAN 2012. To just say that this was a competition that gave me an opportunity to put my best foot forward would be an understatement. For this, as Vice-Chancellor Mr. Rajan Welukar rightly said, was not a competition per se, but a platform for some of the brightest minds in the country to come out of their comfort zone and put forth brilliant ideas that make a difference to the society.

The day started with the MU’s invocation song followed by the Chief Guest for the day Mr MN Singh’s address where he hailed the MU’s idea of providing the management gurus of tomorrow a channel to showcase their socially awakened side.

After a briefing by the MU Vice Chancellor Mr Rajan Welukar, what followed was a succession of well-thought, relevant and breakthrough ideas that would, if and when implemented, involve all the 6,50,000 students for social benefit. Here was a melting pot where not only did we get to put forth our idea for social benefit, but also got enlightened with some brilliant concepts that were presented by the other 14 groups that were shortlisted.

I would not shy away from saying that each and every idea was a winning idea in itself- a reassuring picture of how promising a management talent we have to lead the nation down a few years!

Our idea for social benefit was ‘’Share Market’’- an online portal that would allow students with an excess of academic material (like books, magazines, CDs, medical instruments etc.) to sell the same to students in need at almost 1/5th of the market price.

Though we did not end up on the winning side, the sheer appreciation and motivation that we got from the audience and jury alike will serve as a potent boost to us to go ahead and implement the idea ourselves once we are availed of the required resources.

I am grateful to the MU for providing us with an opportunity for us to think deep and come up with a novel idea that, for a refreshing change, did not put monetary profit as the primary aim but instead focused on maximum social benefit with the 6,50,000 students strong Mumbai University contingent as the driving force.

Team photograph – From left to right – Omkar Moye, Nikita Beel, Sanket Zele, Rahul Tambakhe and Vineesh Padmanabhan

Note :

• MUNIJAN stands for ([/b]Mumbai University New Initiative for Joint Action Now).
  
• This year, MUNIJAN received 100 plus ideas from across colleges under Mumbai University
  
• The winning idea will be taken forward by Mumbai University and implemented across its colleges involving its 6,50,000 students
  
• 10 students from Mumbai University (including students from JBIMS) will be visiting UNISA (University of South Africa) as representatives of University of Mumbai on 8th Oct, 2012
  

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