A team from Ghaziabad's Institute of Technology and Management (ITM) won the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz,a competition for business talent,taking home the prize money of Rs four lakh. K Satyanarayana and Sri Harsha from the ITM had won the finals held last evening. Vipin and Nirad,from IIM Lucknow,were the runner-ups. "We started the quiz programme for corporates of Tata Group in 2004 but it is getting popular among other corporates and students in campuses," Atul Agrawal,vice-president of Corporate Affairs,Tata Services said. "The T-20 format is all about finding business solutions at the speed of thought,where invariably the last mile decides the winner¿much like the T-20 of cricket," quiz master Giri Subramanian said. The contest was held at Nagpur,Manipal,Guwahati and Ranchi. "It was heartening to see 100 teams (each team with two students) from Nagpur while 60 each in others," he said. The quiz had international participation too. The international semi-final winners included Riddhi P Dasgupta,a third year Physics student from University of Oxford,Tim Kovoor a second-year student of Economics and Management from the same university and Ewald Maas,a fourth year engineering student from University of Strathclyde,UK. The teams from Singapore had to leave India urgently as they were here on a wrong visa and therefore the international finals will be held later,Agrawal said.
