Entrepreneurship club of Poornima Foundation, of Poornima Group of Institutions, proved a boon for students vision turning into reality. With expert faculty, guidance students are facilitated to exchange their ideas and creativity to either invent new ways of working on an old business or to create new business ideas.
The club is totally dedicated to encouraging, educating and nurturing entrepreneurial spirit in young and news graduates who aspire to run their own businesses. The club actively works together to promote learning and networking with other students to build high energy environment for smooth execution of new business ideas.
The club really helped them set up a strong back-end operational system which includes the purchasing system, processing plant, and fine understanding of supply-chain management with the good local network for carrying out delivery on time.
Poornima Foundation Successfully Comes with FARHOM:
FARHOM is Rajasthan’s first online vegetables and fruits market. It’s an online virtual grocer of fruits and vegetables developed with the assistance of expert faculty members of entrepreneurship club which offered them an array of resources to realise their dream. As the online retailing is speeding up in India, there are various new ventures coming up in the e-retail sector. It is an extensive online platform which offers a wide range of high-quality exotic fruits & vegetables along with ice-creams, world-famous fruit cakes, fruit biscuits of Karachi bakery and noodles at affordable prices excluding the hassle of daily bargaining.
It started operating on Jan 2015 and in a months’ time, it has already acquired a decent number of customers in its kitty. The club really helped them set up a strong back-end operational system which includes the purchasing system, processing plant, and fine understanding of supply-chain management with the good local network for carrying out delivery on time. Due to city’s tiresome commuting, long working hours and a trend of online shopping which has become highly common among working professionals who prefer buying everything just a click away, also in order to avoid the inconvenience of standing in long queue, Farhom has the facility of home delivery service in Jaipur having Cash on Delivery (COD) option with maximum delivery time of 99 minutes only at customers' doorstep.
Interesting Facts about FARHOM:
- 100% replacement offer- if unsatisfied with the product or its quality.
- Introductory Coupons worth Rs 100/- for placing an order through the website (can be used once) valid for a week.
- Consumers can ask the delivery man for the weighing machine to verify weight.
- PRODUCT OF THE DAY” offer in which a specific item is on sale daily at almost half the market price
- The minimum purchase order is for INR 99/- and all products are on offer with guaranteed lowest price in Jaipur.
- Delivery time is between 7am to 10pm, 365 days a year and order can be placed either through phone or online atwww.farhom.com.
- The orders will be delivered on the same day at a cheaper rate than the market price. Currently, this e-store caters to specific areas in Jaipur – Rajapark, Tilaknagar, Gurunanakpura, Adarsh Nagar, Jawahar Nagar, Janta colony and plans to expand in near future as the business is really picking up.
- It’s a student startup initiative turning into a profitable venture with a vision to save time and make grocery shopping easier and convenient for consumers.
Co-Founders of FARHOM:
- Sourabh Lakhmara –Co-Founder (Poornima Group of Institutions) He is pursuing Engineering from Poornima Group of Institutions, Jaipur in Electronics & Comm. Stream and aspire to be an innovator of things to help people.
- Satyendra Rao – Co-founder (Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology) He is pursuing B.Tech from Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur in Electronics and Comm. Stream and he thought of it since his childhood too.
- Praveen Kumar - Co-founder (Poornima College of Engineering), He is pursuing Engineering from Poornima College, Jaipur in Electrical Engineering, though average at studies, but he loves doing stuff. Technically he is the one putting brains behind the designs of the FARHOM.
- Rakesh Kumar Yadav –Co-Founder (Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology), Currently pursuing B.Tech from Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur in Computer Science. Being from a small town of Rajasthan, Sikar, he was completely directionless what to do in life. But FARHOM gave him a new direction in life.
