Management Fest (IBSTANTIA 2K19) Jan 17-18, 2019

IBSTANTIA 2019,
“A fest of, by, and for the budding managers.”

“Greatness from small beginnings”, something true for all, every great institution, every great individual started from a single step and achieved greatness, and on the 17th and 18th of January the Students took part in the Two day mega event, IBSTANTIA, a fest of the managers, by the managers and for the managers, organized and conducted by the ICFAI Business School, Dehradun. The event consisted of eight activities, Finanza, Battle of equity, Battle of Billboard, Best Manager, The contemplative, Ladder to Success, Ad-Mad show and the corporate vogue show. All these events were designed and created to test and bring out the participants managerial skills and acumen.

The first day of the event, began with an Inaugural ceremony, the chief guest of the day was Mr. Sumit Malik, a Magna Cum Laude from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, in Business Administration, Management and Operations have over 14 years of experience in Warehouse Management, Logistics, Supply chain planning, capacity Planning and Sales and Marketing, have held previous positions, of Regional Engineer in Asian Paints, Deputy General Manager & Regional Manager- West and South India Godrej, Headed Sales & Marketing operations of Godrej Home Appliances forVidharbha based out of Nagpur and currently holds the position of DGM & Commercial Head- South Zone Hub &Karnataka State. Other dignitaries present at the ceremony were the Vice-Chancellor Dr.Pawan Kumar Aggarwal, Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr.Muddu Vinney, Registrar Braigadier Rajiv Sethi, and 12 other distinguished judges that had been called from various spectrum of the corporate world, these 12 individuals were to be the judges of the said 8 events, during the ceremony, Dr.Pawan K. Aggarwal, congratulated the hard work of the Management department for conducting such a magnificent event, so smoothly.

Dr MudduVinne, the pro-VC and also the Dean of the Icfai Business School, was extremely pleased to see that his students had displayed great skills of management, he praised that he felt the enthusiasm and the commitment of the students as he walked into the university this fine morning.

Registrar, Brigadier Rajiv Sethi, commended the hard work done, and gave us a life lesson that the students should “always sweat the small stuff.” He emphasized on the importance of little details that mattered a lot, and he was happy to see that the students had managed to take care of all the little details.

After which the distinguished, Chief guest was requested to share his thoughts with the students, his main message to the students were to never stop growing personally as in personal growth lies the secret of professional growth, as one grows personally so does his competencies and skills, theoretical knowledge only provides a base, but development of skills and competencies is what will take us all forward into attaining the heights of achievements, he went on to thank ICFAI business School for inviting him, and being such an excellent host to him, and said that if given a chance would love to come back again.

Such motivating words kicked off the events that were scheduled for the two days, and the battle of minds and skills, commenced.

First day concluded successfully and also gave the participants and students wanting for more excited for day two of the event.

On the second day of the event, the students were back with more enthusiasm and determination to prove their mettle, like the first day of the event. The final day’s curtain caller event the Corporate Vogue show was a huge success, the event had; Ms. Samanika Singh, at first worked in a Media company in Mumbai, which helped her gain good knowledge of 'Bollywood business'. A chance to work in an ad for Marathi channel 'ABP Majha' opened the doors of acting for her. She worked in umpteen episodics, like Adaalat, CID, YehhaiAshiqui, Encounter, YehhainMohabatein, a few short, corporate and telefilms, followed by the popular role of 'Zillbahar' in the famous serial 'Jodha Akbar', a cameo in Akshay Kumar's "The Shaukeens" and the character of 'Rosy' in a Neeraj Pandey Akshay Kumar's, National award winning film 'Rustom'. She has worked as the Executive producer of 'Atta MajhiHatli' a successful Marathi film.She was the judge for a talent competition held for children with special needs, where she was recognised and honoured for her contribution by our honourable Chief Minister Shree Tiwendra Singh Rawatji in October, 2017. This competition was the first of its kind in Uttarakhand. Being actively involved in social causes, gives her immense satisfaction. She was awarded daughter of Uttarakhand instituted by Gharwal Post in December 2017.She has judged many other competions in the past years like Ms. ISC in Convent of Jesus and Mary, children's day held in Pacific mall and crossroad mall

Ms. PankhuriMulasi, A Science Graduate, completed her MBA at K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research; she started her modelling career at the age of 20 and won the crown of Miss Uttrakhand in 2008. After which she worked for Big Brands like Kaya, Naykaetc, after which she went on to be a movie critic in Starry Talk, and have successfully reviewed movies like BajiraoMastani, Hichki, Sanju, Race 3 etc. and is also editor in chief in movies talkies. Mr.SharvanVerma, has a golden heart, he is the owner of the Blessings Farm, Director of Siddhartha Group of Institutions, sir comes from a family of farmers, and through his hard work and perseverance have reached where he is today, and he believes in giving back to the society and hence have adopted 28 poor family’s children and take cares of their entire education, and in a country where marriages are very important, he has had 127 daughters married coming from low income families, in 7 years.

These were the guests of honour, for the curtain closer event the corporate vogue show, then event went on smoothly and as the results were being tabulated the judges were called upon the share their views.

Ms. Saamanika Singh, congratulated on the job well done, and was humbled to be invited to be the guest of honour of the event; she motivated students with her kind words, and told students the important of perseverance in their lives. Ms.PankhuriMulasi, also congratulated the IBS department on the job well done, and thanked them for inviting her as the guest of honour and spoke about the special connection she has with Dehradun.

Mr.ShravanVerma, spoke to students and shared with them the idea of giving back to the society and how they should always remember these days as they will remember them fondly after they have moved on in their careers.

And after which the results were declared.

The overall trophy was won by the ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL, but being the host, they shared the trophy with the runner’s up, IMS unison, Dehradun.

The ceremony was concluded with a vote of thanks by Professor Dr.Amit Joshi, sir thanked all the guests of honour who had taken time out from their busy schedules to be here today also all the judges who also took time out to be here and judge the events on both days, he also thanked every participant, coordinator, volunteers and praised them for their splendid job, and stated that the students proved that this fest is, of, by and for the managers, and said that Ibstantia would be taken up a notch, the next time it is conducted, and with that the two day mega event Ibstantia was concluded.