Aspiring business leaders reach out to PMO ...

lets say , this is in continuation to my previous post
Our team won the 2nd prize at IIMK - WhiteKnight ,which means the suggestions are going straight to the PMO :)
This event also brings me to the end of competitions and events as a bschooler.
I've participated in whole bunch of events and competitions ,especially second year,and there are some great lessons to be learnt by trying out and ,even better, winning some of the events
Adds to your confidence,soft skills,apply (whatever little )MBA learnings,meet new people,travel ,get away from classes ,and importantly,earn some decent prize money ..
In fact i was thinking i can write an entire posting on the 'business' of bschool events.

anyway ,check out the ET article on the whiteknight below

Aspiring business leaders reach out to PMO with business plans

"Any takers for a project that would transform rural India through a spirit of small enterprise, entrepreneurship and technology?

Well, some time during the course of this month the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) would sit through two award winning presentations detailing social business plans that aim at a radical transformation of the country’s rural economy.

These inputs for possible policy prescriptions are not by economists, planners or academicians. In fact, the detailed road map for social and economic change have been prepared by students who were the participants in a Business Plan contest called White Knight organized by the IIM – Kozhikode.
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The participants in the contest -- with ‘Inclusive Growth’ as its underlying theme – had to come up with ideas that would bring about a marked difference to agriculture, rural development and health care and renewable energy
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ISB, Hyderabad which came first presented the Project Maurya, that seeks to usher in a ‘Golden Revolution’ which will be founded on the principle of small-scale enterprise, industrial growth, entrepreneurship and technology.

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The SP Jain institute, Mumbai, the team that came second, presented a project to correct the lopsided growth and investments.
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Among the hundreds of entries that came in 10 were short-listed. The ten final entries were judged by panel of eminent scholars.
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But the most coveted prize for the top five teams is that their projects would be presented to the office of the most well known economist in the country who incidentally happens to be the most powerful policy maker also - Dr Manmohan Singh "