The National Business Cultural Fest IGKNIGHT 2013 is organized here at Asian School of Business Management campus on 21st & 22nd January to bring students from across the b-schools of the country in a common platform to showcase their talents. The extravaganza was marked by various competitions and events such as Markfest, Best Business Manager, Nach Baliye, Ad-Diction, Counter-Strike, Extempore, Poster Competition, Winquiz, and Fashion Show among others.
Chief Guest on the occasion, Dr. Prasanna Kumar Patasani, Hon’ble Member of Parliament lauded Prof. Biswajeet Pattanayak, Director ASBM for his constant endeavor in grooming management graduates through such type of Business Cultural Fest being conducted every year.
Delivering his welcome address, Prof Biswajeet Pattanayak, director ASBM said, “IGKNIGHT is a platform to ignite the minds of business students to generate idea and money. To be a good business manager, one needs to be ‘Innovative’, ‘Creative’ and should have the urge for ‘Invention’. One should not stick to the old traditional approach rather should kill his existing idea to create new ideas to be a good entrepreneur.”
Guest of Honour, Shri Ranjan Padhi, Chief Manager (Response), The Times of India also encouraged the students by his overwhelming speech and enthused them to become next-gen entrepreneurs by imbibing necessary entrepreneurial skills.
More than 400 students from around 19 b-schools including universities took part in the said event.
Prizes are distributed by the Chief-Guest on the Valedictory day of the event to participants emerged as winners in various contests. Amit Kumar of ASBM was emerged winner in Ad-diction, Subhonil Chaterjee of IBS (Kolkata) as Best Business Manager, Salila Ranjan Sahu of ASBM in Counter-Strike, Gurpreet Sidhu & Divya Verma of Sri Sri University in Extempore, Divya Priyadarshini Das of Biju Pattnaik College of Science & Education in Nach-Baliye, Anjali Srikanth of Centurion University in Fashion Show, Saishree Mohanty of ASBM Institute of BBA in Fashion-Show as Runner Up, Priyanka Namtoar in Poster competition, Rajat Sahoo & Ansuman Patra of ASBM Institute of BBA in WInQuiz competition (Runner-Up).
Similarly, in Markfest, Ipsita Behera of BBA qualified as Best Product Winner, Best Price Winner and Best Advertising Winner, and Aparna Mohanty as Best Stall Winner in the event.