At the Fifth Annual Skoch Summit held in New Delhi on March 15-16, 2007, Dr. Bakul H. Dholakia, Director, IIM-A received the Award from Dr C Rangarajan, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. Dr C Rangarajan was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement award. Ms Neelam Dhawan of Microsoft was honoured as Person of the Year. For exemplary usage of ICT in education Soochna Shakti Yojana of Chhattisgarh was also honored.
Dr Bakul Dholakia, Director, IIM-A while receiving the award said, “We have assumed upon ourselves a role that is much wider and ambitious than other business schools in the country. While majority of our graduates are absorbed in the corporate sector, we also prepares them for a career in management in non-conventional sectors as well.” He added, “A recognition like Skoch Challenger Award further strengthens our resolve.”
Sameer Kochhar, CEO of Skoch on the occasion said, “While IIM-Ahmedabad is known to be the region’s leading business school, it has done some incredible work in sectors like agriculture, health, e-governance and rural intellectual property development and protection. It is for these reasons that it has richly deserved this award.”
Skoch Challenger Awards are independently instituted by Skoch Consultancy Services and adjudged to salute best practices since 2002. Skoch is a commercial strategy and management consultancy company with operations in eleven countries. In India, Skoch actively works towards ICT led improvement of citizen services delivery systems. These include governance, banking, financial services, health, education and infrastructure amongst others. Skoch organizes leading conferences to drive thought leadership in these areas. It also runs an independent ICT Think Tank.
