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Skills of management students come to the fore
— Photo: K. Ananthan
winners take it all: Chairperson of Nadathur S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIM, Bangalore, K.Kumar (second left) presents prize to the Thiagarajar School of Management team which won the first place in PINNACLE-2008, a National Level Business Plan Contest organised by Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology in Coimbatore on Thursday.
The response seen at the national level business plan contest “Pinnacle 2008” for business school students, organised by the Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, here was refreshing.
The contest, which had called for business plans in early October, saw some 50 entries from 35 business schools from all over India. The business plans were perused and eliminated to bring it down to six. “The final six were short-listed based on concept feasibility, novelty implementation plan, impact on socio-economic environment and scalability,” A.G.V. Narayanan, Director, School of Management of Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, said.
The final two from the short-listed six were selected here on November 13 by a jury. The teams had to present the business plan. The presentation was followed by a question-answer session by the members of the jury. The jury, consisting of K. Kumar, Chairperson, NSRCEL, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Raghu Rajagopal, Programme Co-ordinator, Angel Investor, Chennai, and K. Sureshkumar, Manager, PSG STEP, Coimbatore, heard the presentations and chose the top two plans.
The team of A. Giftson Israel, M. Edwin Aldrin, and R. Babu Rajendra Prasad of Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai Kamarajar University, bagged the first place, while the team of M. Ramakrishnan, M. Janarthanam and Divya Sarah Oomen of Saveetha School of Management, Chennai, claimed the second.
The Madurai team’s proposal was to harness the demand for fresh milk by adopting integrated farming techniques. The Chennai’s team plan was manufacturing automated health detail card. The team from GRG School of Management Studies, Coimbatore, comprising Sindhiya S, Samyuktha R. and Saranya T, had hit upon a plan of promoting less popular Indian handicrafts online. The team consisting of Prateek Mittal, Puneet Pahwa, and Divya Aravindan from International School of Business and Research, Bangalore, had planned to provide third party logistics to courier companies. Mr. Narayanan said that those who had not clinched the first two places would be given a chance to incubate their ideas at the NSRCEL, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
National Entrepreneurship Network was the knowledge partner and The Hindu Business Line was the media partner for the event.
AMUTHA KANNAN
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