“Let’s turn our land into land of dreams”; they say,
But first,
let’s pledge to “…be the change”
today.
With this notion CII-YI, a student driven committee registered under the Young Indians chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industries organised and
hosted RESOLUTION 2015, BE THE CHANGE at K J Somaiya Institute of Management
Studies and Research (SIMSR).
The competition comprised of three stages aimed
at testing and evaluating the awareness, managerial skill, logical and
analytical thinking, creativity, planning and decision making capability of the
contestants. More than 140 registrations from top B-schools poured in. The
first round of elimination was an online Quiz round. 80 teams made it to the
next round. An additional round of elimination made the competition challenging
and intriguing as well. The second round involved an interesting case study on
a hypothetical village development. Finally, through this round the best 5
teams for the final round India-2020 were shortlisted. As the name says it all,
the last round challenged the participants to come up with feasible and
concrete plans for the sectoral development of Indian economy in coming 5 years.
The contestants had to present the same with
convincing reasoning before the judges. Mr Vishal Lalchandani, Asset Manager-
Birla Sun Life asset Management Company and Mr Aditya Chavan, Co-founder and
Head of Operations of Zuneeue Technology Private Ltd. comprised
the judges’ panel. The final teams from SCMHRD, IMT Ghaziabad, K.J. SIMSR and teams
from NMIMS battled for the coveted trophy. Creative ideas were stirred up,
innovative new policies were suggested, pragmatic decisions were discussed,
probable government planning was presented. That afternoon witnessed all. The
intensity in the seminar hall was sparked further with the cross questioning by
the judges and the audience about the feasibility of plans presented. The hours
proceeded with mounting excitement of participation of both contestants and
audience.
The competition ended in the evening declaring winner
and runner up. Valuable insights, feedbacks and experiences were shared by the
honourable judges. Marvelling at the confidence exhibited by the participants,
they also praised the theme and the concept of the competition. Judges emphasized on the importance of more
of such kinds to be conducted in the future to hone the skills of young aspiring
managers. With this Resolution 2015…be the change, registered itself as a grand
success of the evening.