Sunday, April 1, 2012

Eight IIM-B graduates awarded gold medals

Eight bright students of the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore
(IIM-B) were on Friday awarded gold medals for their outstanding
performance in the post-graduate programme(PGPs) courses at the
B-school's 37th annual convocation in this tech hub.

Of the 371 graduates passing out from the reputed institute in
management course, gold medallists Ritesh Ritollia bagged first rank
and Shravan Chandra second rank while Anish Nazimudden was judged for
best all-round performance.

In the software enterprise management course, gold medallists Harsh
Vitthal Badli secured first rank while P.S. Sanjeev Kumar was honoured
for best all-round performance among 96 graduates.

Out of 28 students who passed in the public policy and management
course, gold medallist Neelima Rebecca Phillips got the best academic
performance.

Of the 62 graduates in the executive management course, gold
medallists Vimal Chandra was ranked first while Harish Balkrishna
Shetty was selected for best all-round performance.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D. Subbarao, who was the chief
guest at the convocation, presented the degrees to the two-year PGP
batch of 571 students passing out in the four main courses.

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, who is also chairman of
the B-school, addressed the students in the presence of their parents,
director Pankaj Chandra, institute faculty and distinguished invitees.

An electrical engineer from IIT-Roorkee, Ritolia will soon join Boston
Consulting Group (BCG) in New Delhi, while bio-engineer from
IIT-Kanpur Sharma has been selected by the global financial services
firm Nomura to work in its London office.

Nazimudden, an electronics engineer from Birla Institute of Technology
& Science (BITS) at Pilani in Rajasthan, will also join BCG as a
management consultant.

Similarly, Badli, a computer science grad from Visvesvaraya Technology
University(VTU) at Belgaum in Karnataka, is a geek at Honeywell
Technology Solutions Ltd.

Kumar heads solutions engineering for the APAC region at Philips
Lighting and Neelima is an additional general manager in the state-run
BSNL at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.

Vimal Chandra, an electronics engineer from Lucknow, has worked in
various capacities at Indian Oil and IT bellwether Infosys, and
Shetty, an electrical engineer from Mumbai University, will soon join
Tata Consulting Services (TCS) in Mumbai.IANS

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