The Business Today – Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2006 National B-school challenge today kicked off its North Zone rounds at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

B-schools from around Delhi and Lucknow participated in the event, and several familiar names won the debate on the relevance of foreign brands to enter the quarter finals. The quarter finals shall be now held for two groups.

Group 1: Corporate Social Responsibility is just PR
1) Balaji and Ali Asgar from IMT Ghaziabad
2) Priyanka and Soumya from MDI, Gurgaon
3) Chhanda Das and Ruchi Sharma from Amity Business School
4) Ritesh Patel and Shivanku Misra from IMI Delhi

Group 2: FDI wil kill local industry
5) Ankush and Nishika Bajaj from FMS Delhi
6) Swarnim and Arka Bhatacharya from IIFT Delhi
7) Swati Gupta and Nandita Verma from ICFAI Business School
Akshat Tyagi and Divya Mohan from LBS, Delhi

Next update after the announcement of results!