Kshitij 2005, a joint effort of NHRDN and Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubhaneswar, attracted the best talents from all the top B-Schools of the country including IIMB, XLRI, NITIE, FMS, IIFT, NMIMS. The contest involved two rounds with the initial short listing being done on the basis of the project reports. The Final round saw the short listed candidates descending upon the beautiful lush campus of XIMB.

The participants from XIMB were clearly in their elements and a cut above the rest as they managed to bag the top positions in three out of the five functional areas in the individual rounds. Bivas Misra who was awarded for Systems, Abhijit Shah for Finance and Mr Sujesh P for Operations were all second year students of the PGDBM at XIMB. Anindita Rathore from FMS Delhi, won the top award for her project in Marketing while Sajan AS from XLRI bagged the HR top slot.

The XIMB success story was also repeated in the Rural Management segment where XIMB students bagged all the three spot on offer in that segment of the competition, once again affirming XIMB’s dominant status as the emerging top B-School in the Rural Management education.

The event was adjudged by independent judges from some of the most reputed corporate houses of the country and the judges were greatly impressed with the quality of talent on display and the adept management of the event.