POWER Parba
Power Parba 2023
The 4th edition of Parba was approved by MSME for the very first time ; and with their association the exhibitors having Udyam Registration were fully reimbursed with their stall amount under the Procurement and Marketing scheme. Power Parba 2023 witnessed a 100+ stalls by women entrepreneurs which included apparels, handmade & home-made products, food stalls. We also held a free eye camp for all the exhibitors and visitors. We witnessed 10k plus visitors for the 3 days of the event.
The event was inaugurated on 13th January by:
- MLA of Udupi- Shri Raghupati Bhat
- Former DC of Udupi- Smt. Kalpana Gopalan
- Joint Director DIC- Shri Nagaraj V Nayak
- Assistant Joint Director - Ms. Shruti
- CEO- Atal Incubation Centre- Nitte- Dr A P Achar
- Assistant Director Dept of Kannada & Culture- Ms. Poornima
The inaugural was followed by a cultural program of Yakshagana conducted by the women artists.
The office bearers for 2022-23 are
- President- Ms. Poonam Shetty
- Secretary- Ms. Archana Rao
- Treasurer- Ms. Pratibha Ravi
- Jt. Secretary & Treasurer- Ms. Trupti Nayak.
- Event Coordinator- Ms. Shilpa Shetty
- Event Secretary- Ms. Deena Prabhakar
POWER PARBA is a marketing festival conceptualized by team POWER which celebrates the spirit of women entrepreneurship; the word “Parba” in Tulu language meaning festival.
This mega marketing fair is conducted to help budding women entrepreneurs to showcase their products, services and talents to a wide audience. Who can participate?
- Women who are running small home-based businesses in rural and urban areas.
- Women who have established small and medium scale industries (MSMEs)
- Women who want to scale up their enterprise and
- Women who have converted their hobbies into a source of income
The main objectives of PARBA were:
- To provide a platform for women entrepreneurs to display and sell and thereby promote their products.
- To bring rural and urban women entrepreneurs under one umbrella.
- To promote mutual learning, collective learning between the rural and urban entrepreneurs.
- Create awareness amongst the local community about these women.
- Disseminate marketing, management and technical knowledge.
- To help women entrepreneurs develop contacts with buyers and networking.
- Marketing of products and display of projects of MSME’s which are owned or co-owned by women.
- Help in developing new markets and expand existing markets for these women.
The second edition of POWER Parba was held from 11th January 2018 to 14th January 2018 at Mahatma Gandhi Bayalu Rangamandira, Beedinagudde, Udupi.Over 200 women entrepreneurs from different parts of India participated and there was a footfall of around 10,000.There were 153 stalls ranging from homemade products, Arts, FMCG, electrical and electronic gadgets, MSMEs, organic foods, eco-friendly products and many more. There were product launches held, as well as entertainment and games for kids. Community outreach programmes were also organised – Free eye check-up, medical education and awareness, dental hygiene awareness and terracotta training programme.
E Power Parba
An online version of the POWER Parba was initiated during the COVID-19 Pandemic to encourage women to sell their products online and train them in the required skills. The online marketing fair was held on 7th and 8th of November, 2020. There were 71 online stalls put up at the online website powerparba.co. It received 4305 unique visitors leading to sales amounting to Rs. 2,72,883.
POWER Parba - 2020
POWER PARBA 2020” held from 10th ,Jan 2020 to 12th Jan 2020 at Mahatma Gandhi Bayalu rangamandira, Beedinagudde, Udupi. Inauguration by Chief Guest Shri. Kota Srinivas Poojary, Member of Karnataka Legislative Council, Marketing Fair Inauguration by Ms. Tanvi Jagdish. Guests of Honour; Mr. G. Jagdish - Deputy Commissioner of Udupi District, Mr. Veerandra Hegde, Mrs. Jayalakshmi Hegde, Mrs. Ravindra Hegde & Mrs. Aparna R. Hegde - Managing Partners of Jayalakshmi Silks
Jewellery & Painting
Garments & Textiles
Valedictory program of POWER PARBA 2020 is graced by chief guest - Honourable Former Minister of State for Fisheries , Youth Empowerment and Sports Shri. Pramod Madhwaraj . Guest of Honour Ms. Sheela Shetty & Ms. Sandhya Pai
POWER SANTHE 2019
“POWER SANTHE 2019” held on 21st September 2019 at Nutana Ravindra Mantap, M.G.M College Udupi. Inauguration by Chief Guest G. Jagadeesh, Deputy Commissioner of Udupi District.
Lighting of Lamp
Home Décor and Home Made Soaps
POWER Parba - 2018
Honourable Minister for Youth, Sports and Fisheries and District In-charge Minister Shri. Pramod Madhwaraj inaugurating the 4 day marketing fair “POWER PARBA” held from 11th ,Jan 2018 to 14th Jan 2018 at Mahatma Gandhi Bayalu rangamandira, Beedinagudde, Udupi.
Honourable Minister for Youth, Sports and Fisheries and District In-charge Minister Shri. Pramod Madhwaraj visiting the stalls at POWER PARBA’18.
Honourable Minister for Youth, Sports and Fisheries and District In-charge Minister Shri. Pramod Madhwaraj with the office bearers and members of POWER at the POWER PARBA ’18.
A traditional tulunadu welcome to the honourable Deputy Commissioner, Udupi Dist. Smt. Priyanka Mary Francis at the POWER PARBA ’18.
The honourable Deputy Commissioner, Udupi Dist. Smt. Priyanka Mary Francis inaugurating the exhibition of women entrepreneurs at the POWER PARBA ’18.
Lighting of the lamp by Deputy Commissioner, Udupi Dist. Smt. Priyanka Mary Francis and the guests of honour.
Valedictory program of POWER Parba’ 18 graced by Chief Guest Dr. Veena Bannanje, guests of Honour – Sri. Ramananda Nayak, Joint director DIC , Udupi; Sri. Manjunathaiah, Municipal Commissioner , Udupi ; Sri. Deviprasad Shetty, Executive board member FKCCI; Ms.Yagna Shetty, Filmfare awardee.
Team POWER at the Bike / Motor vehicle rally conducted to promote entrepreneurship among women on the 10th January,2018.
POWER Parba 2018 Invitation
POWER Parba - 2016
Venue: MGM College, Udupi
Colourful start to the programme at Nutana Ravindra Mantap on 6th Feb’16
Guest of Honour: Mr. Annamalai , IPS Superintendent of Police, Udupi, Lauded efforts of team POWER in organising the PARBA ‘16
Chief Guest: Ms. Ushaprabha Nayak Secretary and Correspondent Expert Group of Institutions Mangalore -Enlightened the audience on need for empowering women through the PARBA ‘16
Felicitations and Honouring
Women achievers of Udupi district and who have done yeomen service to the people of Udupi dstrict were honoured and recognized
Ms. Sudha Kamath
Ms. Kusuma Karanth, Principal Manipal Pre- School , Manipal
Nursery plants
Garments and Textiles
Handcrapts
Food Stalls
Cosmetics
Scooter/ Bike Rally from Manipal to Udupi flagged off by Udupi Zilla Panchayath CEO, Ms. Priyanka Mary Francis
Valedictory
Valedictory
The Manipal Flea Market
Inauguration of Manipal Flea Market-Nov 2018
Sri. Bhaskar hande , GM Syndicate Bank , Zonal Office at the closing ceremony of The Manipal Flea
First ever - The Manipal Flea -2018
POWER Summit
In order to encourage entrepreneurship among women, to harness their potential and enable their continued growth, it is necessary to formulate appropriate strategies to stimulate, support and sustain their efforts. The summit aims to bring together women leaders, entrepreneurs, academicians, government representatives and resource organisations, investors, executives , aspiring entrepreneurs and students and other stakeholders of women entrepreneurship. The summit intends to discuss and deliberate on the challenges confronting women entrepreneurs in the present business environment. The main objective of the summit is to POWER women entrepreneurs to make them better, bigger and bolder in their businesses.
Aims and Objectives:
- To create a network among all stakeholders of entrepreneurship.
- To assess factors favouring and hampering entrepreneurship.
- To strengthen women entrepreneurial ecosystem.
- To provide mentoring.
- To enhance contact with service providers.
- To disseminate knowledge on financial services.
Business excellence awards: POWER business excellence awards seek to recognise and award women who have demonstrated a commitment to creating sustainable business through leadership and innovation. The categories of awards are: Family business leadership award, First generation business excellence award, Best start-up award and best social entrepreneur award.
POWER Summit - 2021
Panel discussion on Aatma-Nirbhar Bharat. Panelist : Dr. A P Achar - Dean, Corporate Program CEO, AIC Nitte and Ms. Divya Dsouza - Business Coach and Entrepreneur. Moderator : Mrs. Tanuja Maben - Director, Forrader Akademi, Manipal
Panel discussion on Scale Up Strategy . Panelist Dr. Jayapriya D and Dr. Smitha Nayak - Associate Professor, MAHE. Moderator : Mrs.Suvarsha Minj, Entrepreneur
Ms. Sunitha Madhusudhan , Proprietor of Suvarna Enterprises was awarded Power Excellence Award -Rural
Ms. Jennifer Sapna Salin , Proprietor of Bell-O Seal Valves Pvt. Limited was awarded Power Excellence Award -Urban
POWER Summit - 2019
First generation business excellence award
Family business leadership award
Ms. Radhika Shetty - Performing Artiste, Founder director -Nrityaangan trust Speaking on Life is calling. Are you listening?
Ms. Shraddha Rangnekar, Partner, Mrugaya Xpeditions , Goa- Topic: Responsible tourism- adding value to the experience
Dr. Shenaz Z Khaleeli- Talk on Empowering women through Entrepreneurship
Managing Director of Nandu Pharmaceuticals, Dharwad- Mrs. Usha Hegde.
Chief guest- former Chief secretary ofKarnataka State Smt. Ratnaprabha I.A.S - interacting with Youth-POWER -students from Dr. G. Shankar First Grade Women's College.
POWER Summit - 2017
Inaguration of power summit 2017
Interaction with delegates
Adani First Generation Business Excellence Award
Canara Bank Social Entrepreneurs Award
Syndicate Bank Best Start-up Award
Panel discussions on Women Entrepreneurs as an ”Economic Force”
Reliance Jio Family Business Leadership Award
Mr. A.C Sahu, G.M of SIDBI addressing the gathering
Panel discussions on An Eco System of “HER” Enterprises
Panel discussions on Scaling up of Women Enterprises – Strategies & Solutions
EmPOWER
It was on the 8th of March in the year 2009, when 11 enterprising women of Udupi district came together to form POWER. To mark this day and also to celebrate the International Women’s Day, Empower is organised- a programme that brings together women from all over the district to celebrate being a woman. It is also our endeavor during this programme to recognize and honour women in our society who normally remain obscure but have made significant contributions to the welfare of the society at large. The 9th edition of EmPOWER was graced by Prof. Shantha Sinha, eminent social activist, Ramon Magsasay award winner and Padmashri award winner.
EmPOWER 2021
EMPOWER 2021 conducted at Ocean Pearl, Udupi on International Women's Entrepreneurship Day. Chief Guests Smt. Sandhya Kamath. Guest of Honour Mr. K. Raghupati Bhat MLA, Udupi and Mr. Kurma Rao M, IAS Deputy Commissioner, Udupi
Team POWER with Guest of Honour Mr. Kurma Rao M, IAS Deputy Commissioner, Udupi
EmPOWER 2020
EMPOWER 2020 conducted at Legado Hotel, Udupi with Chief Guests Smt. Shyamala S. Kundar, Member National commission for Women, Govt. Of India and Smt. Revathi Kamath, Environmentalist and Founder of CALYX, Bangalore
EMPOWER 2020 conducted at Legado Hotel, Udupi with Chief Guests Smt. Shyamala S. Kundar, Member National commission for Women, Govt. Of India and Smt. Revathi Kamath, Environmentalist and Founder of CALYX, Bangalore
EMPOWER 2020 conducted at Legado Hotel, Udupi with Chief Guests Smt. Shyamala S. Kundar, Member National commission for Women, Govt. Of India and Smt. Revathi Kamath, Environmentalist and Founder of CALYX, Bangalore
Previous EmPOWER Events
EMPOWER 2019 - Chief Guest- Former Chief Secretary of Karnataka State, Smt. Ratna Prabha K I.A.S and Guest of Honour - Deputy Commissioner Udupi District, Smt. Hephsiba Rani Korlapati I.A.S , Sri Bhaskar Hande, General Manager, Zonal office, Syndicate Bank- Manipal and Sri Ramananda Nayak, Joint Director, District Industries Centre, Udupi
EMPOWER 2010 - Cheif Guests Dr. Sophie, Entreprenuer, Mangalore, Dr. Varamballi, Director Manipal Institute of Management & Dr. Achar, Manipal Institute of Management
EMPOWER 2011 conducted in association with Innerwheel Udupi Manipal, Mahila Samaj & Lioness Clubs of Udupi and Manipal. Cheif guests DC Hemalatha, Latha Kini Entreprenuer (Managing Partner, Pilot Paints) & Dr. Sandhya Pai, Editor Taranga
EMPOWER 2012 at District Small Industrial Association with the cheif guest Mrs. Neetha Inamdhar
EMPOWER 2013 conducted in association with Lions Club International Dist 317C, Lioness Club, Udupi
EMPOWER 2014 at PPC COLLEGE
Empower 2015 conducted in association with Manipal Mahila Samaj and unveiling of Y-POWER at school of management
EMPOWER 2016 conducted in association with School of Communication
EMPOWER 2017 conducted in association with Manipal Mahila Samaj and Inner Wheel, Udupi with chief guest Mrs. Veronica Cornelio.
Team power honoring Dr. Shantha Sinha for her crusade against Child Labour and Bonded Labour
EMPOWER 2018 conducted in association with Manipal Mahila Samaj and Lioness District 317C, Udupi.
POWER team honouring Smt. Pavana B Achar , Director of Kalaspandana and Vipanchi panchaveena Balaga for her outstanding achievements in the field of Carnatic Music and her contribution to Indian fine arts
POWER team honouring Smt. Priya Mallya, Director of Tirumala Cashews, Karkala dist. for her excellence in business and outstanding achievements in promoting rural women.
Charter Day
Charter Day 2021 conducted at Hotel Central Park, Udupi in association with UBUNTU. Chief guests Smt. Veena Vivekanand, CDPO, Udupi. Guest of Honour Smt. Devaki Yoganand - founder - Joint Secretary, UBUNTU Consortium
POWER Bulletin 2021 release
Team Power Honoring Ms. Pramila Rao, Founder Kalpa Trust
Team power honoring Ms. Suma Nayak, Honorary Trustee, Animal Care Trust Mangalore