Aspiring biz leaders reach out to PMO with plans
By S Sanandakumar, TNN |
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KOCHI: 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 organised by the IIM Kozhikode.
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. 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.
���The idea of the Golden Revolution draws from India���s past, mirroring the Golden age ushered in by emperor Ashoka,��� the project summary said. 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 10 final entries were judged by panel of eminent scholars. The White Knight was sponsored by Reliance Industries and the winners walked away with a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh with another lakh donated to a charity of their choice. White Knight was held as part of the annual cultural festival of IIM Kozhokode, namely, ���Backwaters 2007���.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.
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