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buckleyourshoe.com launched yesterday, will focus on building a community of students around it through a gamut of services offered through the portal and brick and mortar operations.

"It will be a niche portal targeted at 20 crore students of the 16 to 24 age group," said Piyush Shah, one of the four Delhi College of Engineering students who generated the idea behind the portal.

The student community portal will offer information on educational institutes, hostels and other means of accommodation, as also offer counselling to students on personality development, sex and drug abuse and other personal needs.

To offer effective personal counselling, buckleyourshoe.com will tie up with NGOs and student organisations. It will also tie up with schools and colleges inside the country and abroad to offer updated information on courses and a wide variety of career options. Anshu Shah, vice president, finance, said, "The site will not depend only on advertising revenues. Its revenue sources will range from institutional package sales, e-tailing of courses, text books and sale of market research and databases."

 

Buckleyourshoe.com intends to have brick and mortar presence in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune and Ludhiana.