The vision of a visually challenged

  

He is Srikanth Bolla. He is a blind person. He secured 90% in 10th class, 98% in 12th. He was denied to get admission in Science subject after class 12. But he aimed for IIT, BITS Pilani. Again he was declined Science due to his blindness. He then refused to take admission and went for the best universities of the world. He got chance from four of the top universities of USA - MIT, Standford, Berkeley and Carnegie Melon.

Now he returned from Corporate America to India. He started Bollant Industries, that manufactures Areca based products. Sixty percent of his employees are physically disabled, yet they contributes to the Indian economy. He addresses environmental issues by recycling waste paper, plastics from municipal wastes. His turnover grew to 150Cr in 2018. Srikant is the director of Surge Impact Foundation (2016) that works for achieving Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

When he was a child of 9 years, he said to our erstwhile President Dr. A.P.J. Abul Kalam that his aim is to become the first blind President of India. His ambition elated our late president. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam used to preach "THINK BIG" to the students. And Srikanth's ambition, I think, surprised our Kalam Sir also.

Check the following videos to know about him.

Quote

If the world looks at me and says, ‘Srikanth, you can do nothing,’ I look back at the world and say ‘I can do anything'.

Youtube Video: Srikanth Bolla: Seeing no obstacles LINK

Dr. Kalam talks about Srikanth  LINK

References

Wikipedia: Srikanth Bolla

 

Journey of a Successful Entrepreneur.(MAKAUT, WB)

Journey of a Successful Entrepreneur (MAKAUT, WB)

Date: 21st May 2021 Time: 03PM 

Archived by NSCBIP Entrepreneurship Cell

MAKAUT University has organized a program entitled Journey of a Successful Entrepreneur on 21st May 2021. This is the first program of the College Connect Program series by MAKAUT.

The key points of the program

1. Prof. (Dr.) Sujit Mukherjee - Opening remarks [00:00:00 to 00:01:40]
2. Prof. Indranil Mukherjee - Brief introduction of the Speakers [00:01:40 to 00:05:40]
3. Mr. Pradip Mukhopadhyay - Retd. Managing Director, WEBEL [00:05:41 to 00:15:28]
• Grooming of Entrepreneurs is absent in out educational system.
• Overview of present entrepreneur status of India. Causes of failures in India. 
• How to search a problem that can be made a topic of a start up. 
4. Mr. Sanjoy Chatterjee - Resource Director and Chief Technology Officer of Ideation  [00:15:28 to [00:38:30]
   
•  Entreprenuer 14 years.  Enough Enthusiasm. Story of Jamsedji Tata. Right decisions.
  Ratan Tata and a Fuchka man. Story of a fisherman. 
• Ideation. 
• Search Patents. Lens.org. Patent landscape. Register in startupindia.org. Minimum viable product (MVP). Proof of  concept (POC). Team, Domain expertise. Knowledge of the market. 
• Funding - Bootstrap, Seed fund, Famly and friends. When and how much money is required. Take money only for developing the MVC. Money should not be taken for running the business or cash flow.
• Healthcare Technology areas, Agricultural technology business, easy startup fund from Microsoft $150,000., Environment Technology, Industrial IOT in Manufacturing area
  Data science, IOT, ARVR (Virtual Reality)
5. Dr. Subarno Bose [00:38:32 to 00:47:02] Non-specific.
• Take a break and reflect on owrself. E-Pharmacy - No regulation.
• Sahas fund
• Should try to do some unique solution to some problem
  
6. Mr. Sanjoy Chatterjee - Q&A Session [00:48:24 to ]
• Incubation center: Mentor, Market, Environment
• https://www.startupindia.gov.in/ to register a business
• Business Model Canvas - a single page template by Stanford University
  
7. Mr. J.P. Shaw - Faculty, Dept. of Travel and Tourism, MAKAUT
• Ekta Incubation Center of MAKAUT
  

Link

NSCBIP Entrepreneurship Cell

 

Restriction of Oxytocin sale - another story of half-baked policy of Govt. of India

 

Oxytocin is a lifesaving drug that is routinely administered to arrest the haemorrhage (bleeding) of a mother after child birth. Without this drug there is a risk of death of the mother during childbirth.

Oxytocin has another use, it is used to enhance milk production in cows and buffaloes in dairy farms. This second use has become so rampant that Government of India has banned the sale of Oxytocin through retail chemists from Sep 1, 2018. Under the new rules, the public sector Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceuticals Limited (KAPL) alone will supply oxytocin across the country.

Here comes the twist in the story. Presently there are above 50 companies those are supplying Oxytocin across the country. It is reaching every noon and corner of India through multiple channel. Hence there is no shortage in  supply of this life-saving drug even at the remotest corner of our country. Now if a single company and that too a government owned has to supply it there will certainly be a shortage of supply at crucial moments. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) along with obstetricians and gynecologists have asked for  review.

This types of Government decisions are taken in a haste and often they are half-baked, one-sided. It is the responsibility of the Government to prevent the illegal use of a drug by constant vigil and policing. Instead government has resorted at restricting a life-saving medicine and put a major chunk of people's life at risk.

There are other such acts of government also to cover its failure of duty and banning items and chemicals. One example is the chemical agents required for acetylation reaction. Acetylation is often used in chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories in institutes to insert an acetyl group in an organic molecule. Examples are acetyl chloride and acetic anhydride. Those chemicals are abused to prepare morphine or brown sugar from morphine. Government agencies failed to nail those culprits, instead they took the easier way of banning the chemicals at the source.

Hima Das the Indian sensation of 400m Race

Just run the video. See the burst of energy at the last lap. The lightening speed of the light structure of an hitherto unknown Indian girl. She has the stamina, she has the zeal to execute. She is raised from a nondescript  village of Assam. She practised on a swampy, water-logged field, under the guidance of desi coaches. She is not complaining about almost anything. Such is her confidence that the world arena cannot intimidate her either. This is what is known as talent.

This is the field where she practised

(Courtesy: The Telegraph)

Her parents, Junali and Ranjit Das, are two unassuming village parents, nowhere near the modern world. Yet she brought such joy and pride to India.

Her parents Junali and Ranjit Das

(Courtesy: The Telegraph)

The football world cup made Indian youth worship heros like Messi, Ronaldo, Neymer from another world. Now let us look within us and be proud of our own Hima Das and Deepa Karmakar.

Reference

A champ from the swamp, The Telegraph 14/07/2018 Link

Famous Quotes

Chinese saying

Give a fish to a man, he will eat it within a day. Teach him how to fish he will be fed for the rest of his life. - Chinese Saying

Famous Quotes of Albert Einstein

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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Once you stop learning, you start dying.
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Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
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What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.
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Education is not the learning of facts, it’s rather the training of the mind to think.
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Novo Nordisk

History of Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a Danish Healthcare company that is involved in active research and manufacture of Insulin, growth hormone, enzymes, antihaemophilic factor and blood protein products. Two parent companies Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium (1923) and Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium (1925) initially  started their journeys as rivals. However, there was a similarity between the two companies. Both of them were involved in manufacturing of insulin and active diabetes research. Finally Novo Industri A/S and Nordisk Gentofte A/S merged in the year 1989 to become Novo Nordisk A/S – the world’s leading producer of insulin.

Diabetes mellitus (DM)

Diabetes mellitus is caused either 

(i)  due to lack of production of insulin in pancreas or 

(ii) may be the cells of the body are not responding to insulin properly (insulin resistance).

There are mainly three types of diabetes mellitus:

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• Type 1 DM results from the pancreas's failure to produce enough insulin. This form was previously referred to as "insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus" (IDDM) or "juvenile diabetes". The cause is unknown.
• Type 2 DM begins with insulin resistance, a condition in which cells fail to respond to insulin properly. As the disease progresses a lack of insulin may also develop. This form was previously referred to as "non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus" (NIDDM) or "adult-onset diabetes". The primary cause is excessive body weight and not enough exercise.
• Gestational diabetes, is the third main form and occurs when pregnant women without a previous history of diabetes develop high blood-sugar levels.

Insulin

Insulin is a peptide hormone that is produced by the beta cells in the pancreas. 

Functions of insulin

• It regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats by promoting the absorption of glucose from the blood to skeletal muscles and fat tissue and by causing fat to be stored rather than used for energy.
• Insulin also inhibits the production of glucose by the liver.

Structure of insulin polypeptide

Insulin consists of two polypeptide chains, the A- and B- chains, linked together by disulfide bonds.

Manufacturing of insulin

Initially insulin was isolated and purified from bovine (cow) pancreas. Later pig insulin was used which is more similar to human insulin. Novo created an insulin similar to human insulin by extracting insulin from the pancreases of pigs and then converting it to human insulin.

Products of Novo Nordisk

Human insulins

        Insulatard® Human insulin 

  Actrapid® Human insulin 

  Mixtard® 30 Biphasic human insulin 

  Mixtard® 40   Biphasic human insulin 

  Mixtard® 50 Biphasic human insulin 

Oral antidiabetic agents

        NovoNorm® Repaglinide

  PrandiMet® Repaglinide/metformin

Diabetes devices

        FlexTouch® Prefilled insulin delivery system

  FlexPen® Prefilled insulin delivery system

  NovoPen® 4 Durable insulin delivery system

  NovoPen® 5 Durable insulin delivery system with memory function

  NovoPen Echo® Durable insulin delivery system

  InnoLet®         Prefilled insulin delivery system

  NovoFine® Needle

  NovoFine®     Plus Needle

  NovoFine®     AutoCover®   Needle

  NovoTwist® Needle

  GlucaGen® Glucagon

Haemostasis (antihaemophillic factor)

        Novoseven® Recombinant factor VIIa

  NovoEight® Recombinant factor VIII

  NovoThirteen® Recombinant factor XIII

Human growth hormone

        Norditropin® Somatropin (rDNA origin)

  Norditropin® FlexPro® Prefilled multidose delivery system

  Norditropin® Nordiflex Prefilled multidose delivery system

  NordiPen® Prefilled multidose delivery system

  PenMate® Prefilled multidose delivery system

  NordiLet® Prefilled multidose delivery system

Hormone replacement therapy

        Activelle® Estradiol/norethisterone acetate

  Estrofem® Estradiol

  Novofem® Estradiol/norethisterone acetate

  Vagifem® Estradiol hemihydrate

References 

The history of Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk Step by Step

N.B. This information is meant only to provide brief information to the students of NSCBIP for interview preparation.

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