Annual Parivartan 2008 takes off at IIT Delhi

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New Delhi, February 15:: The Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi is organizing its annual business festival Parivartan on February 15-17 at IIT Delhi. This year’s Parivartan comes with the theme Bizz-Bang…The Celestial Odyssey and aims to capture a snapshot of the expanding Indian business universe.

Parivartan is the celebration of the Indian economy encapsulating business growth through a colorful spectrum of events. This colorful collage of events aim to test the business acumen, creativity and intellectual prowess of the participants making it an enriching experience for the participants as well as for the organizers.

The curtain raiser for Parivartan, scheduled on February 15, will be graced by none other than the country’s first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi and Ambassador J. C. Sharma.

Parivartan sees participation from Business Schools all over the country and corporate as well. This year, over 100 teams are arriving on campus to take part in the fest. On day one, it will begin with on-the-spot games. These include HR based consulting games among many others.

The formal Inauguration for Parivartan 2008 will commence from 9:30 am at DMS auditorium, IIT Delhi.

Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC Bank, will be the chief guest and Sidharth Gautam will be the guest of honour at the inaugural function.

Following the inaugural, the main events of the day will unfold with a series of competitions like case study competition, personality tests and entrepreneurial games that strive to bring out the creativity and business acumen of budding managers-to-be.

Parivartan serves as a platform for interaction between students and celebrities from different walk of life and corporate. The third day of Parivartan 2008 will be star studded, with eminent persona from media, corporate and academia addressing the gathering.

The media conclave at Parivartan is on the 17th and will see an eminent panel discuss on The Business-Media Confluence. This panel includes Sanjay Salil, MD, Mediaguru Consultants; Ved Pratap Vaidik, senior journalist and author; P. Pandey, CEO Radio Mirchi and Kanchan Gupta, Executive Editor, The Pioneer.

The guests at the Halley’s workshop include award winning film director Prakash Jha, Olympic medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer. Among the corporate invitees who would be interacting with the gathering include Ashwani Keshwani, country head, Oetiker India and W.Selvamoorthy, Chief Controller, DRDO.