OIG-IIM Lucknow & CoolAvenues Conducted 'OPSYRUS 2006' Results are Out

OIG-IIM Lucknow & CoolAvenues Conducted 'OPSYRUS 2006' Results are Out

The Operations Interest Group (OIG) is the special interest group for Operations in IIM Lucknow and is committed to the cause of enhancing classroom learning and providing a platform for the students to demonstrate their understanding of the subject.

To this end OIG-IIM Lucknow, in partnership with CoolAvenues.com, a leading web portal, organized "Opsyrus 2006", a national level Paper Writing Competition. The topics for the contest were chosen after careful deliberation to reflect the increasing importance of these issues in the field of operations today.

Infrastructure Development in India: Challenges & Opportunities from Operations Management Perspective

Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management

The response was overwhelming with 126 entries received from 24 top management institutes from all over the country. The competition was intense with the team of Abhishek Siroya and Hemant Joshi from IIM Lucknow finally walking away with the honors. Bhupinder Singh and Prasad Deo from NITIE were the first runners up and Vamsee Chandra from IIM Lucknow won the second runner-up spot.

The final results are as follows: -

Winners
Rank	Name	Institute	Topic	Prizes Worth
1	Hemant Joshi & Abhishek Siroya	IIM Lucknow	Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management	Rs. 15,000/-
2	Bhupinder Singh & Prasad Deo	NITIE Mumbai	Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management	Rs. 10,000/-
3	Vamsee Chandra	IIM Lucknow	Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management	Rs. 5,000/-

Other Entries in Top 10
Name	Institute	Topic
Varun Gupta & Naresh Mahadevan	ISB Hyderabad	Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
N. V. Chakravarthy	School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad	Infrastructure Development in India
Uday Sankar A. & S. Yogendra	NITIE Mumbai	Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
Anusha Jain & Praneet Parate	IIM Lucknow	Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
Anshuman Harjai & Ibin Issac Abraham	MDI Gurgaon	Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
Madhuker Priyesh & Varun Ramanan	IIM Lucknow	Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
Jayant Trivedi & Saloni Gaba	SIOM, Pune	Infrastructure Development in India

Concluded.