3 teams of IIM Kozhikode come top in national competition Manthan to help youth set an agenda for 2014 elections

KOCHI: IIM Kozhikode emerged star performer in the national level competition 'Manthan' organized by Citizens for Accountable Governance ( CAG), which saw a participation by leading national educational instiutions. Manthan, a nation-wide youth centric competition aimed to come up with innovative solutions to 14 critical challenges that India now faces.

IIM Kozhikode became the only institute of which three teams won prizes. They emerged winners in the themes of 'enhancing quality of primary education', 'realizing the growth potential of north-east' and 'universalizing the access of quality primary health care', according to a statement from IIM Kozhikode.

The competition was launched on July 13, 2013 with the aim of engaging one crore students directly and nine crore indirectly providing an opportunity for the youth to help set an agenda for the 2014 general elections. Top political leaders including Narendra Modi attended the function where the solution proposed for each of the 14 themes was presented by the national winners of each theme.

CAG, a not-for-profit organization, aims to build a substantive and purposeful collaboration with various establishments in the country and to engage the common man in a mass movement to strengthen accountable governance in India.