Nimitt Press Coverage in Business Standard

Announcement / Mumbai July 29, 2007

The NIMITT festival is the initiative of PGDSM-MIT batch at SP Jain. This program is jointly conducted by SP Jain & Virginia Tech (USA). The event was attended by top corporates and business schools across the country over two days on 13th & 14th July 07. The theme of the event was ‘Unleashing what lies beyond and beneath’.

The highlights of the event were:

1.Speech by i-Flex Vice Chairman (Mr. Deepak Ghaisas)
2.Presidential address by CA MD (Mr. Ninad Karpe)
3.Tark Vitark – Panel discussion
4.Anubhav – Corporate cultural event
5.Expert talk – Future of Indian Business Environment
6.Case study competition by various corporates
7.On the spot case study competition by Social Consultancy Group

It was remarkable to note that the students were extremely helpful in spite of their nerve racking schedules. The high energy levels of students, staff and attending corporates were clearly visible and the campus was abuzz with activity.

SCG on the spot case study drew tremendous response from the participants. Around thirty submitted their views on how to tackle the challenges mentioned in the case study. The responses were evaluated on the basis of innovative thought process and following two teams were selected for the award.

First Prize - SPJIMR - Anand Chourikar, Valiapan and Mohit Shah

Second Prize - SPJIMR - Kaustubh Varde, Aliazgar Abbasi, Aditya Srivastava & Nischal Shah

Although many students came forward and congratulated the SCG team for the innovative cost & organizational model, it will be visible in the coming weeks on how many participants will be actually interested in joining us as members and taking the SCG mantle forward.

About SCG

Social Consultancy Group was founded in the year 2006 by IT professionals who wanted to give back something to the society but did not know the ways and means. The thought process invariably shifted from donation, to working at the grass root levels to a final concept which was workable and sustainable.

The concept revolves around the provision of IT services & consultancy services to corporates by using the available latent IT pool interested in social activities. Our core mission is to holistically contribute to India’s socio-economic development by creating a corpus to fund diverse NGOs.

Mission

We aim to "ignite social change" by harnessing the latent pool of knowledge professionals to bring about social welfare and make India's growth inclusive to all sections of the society.

Core Strengths

1. Cross functional domain expertise
2. Tie up with major social organizations in India and abroad
3. Use of international standards like ITIL, PMP
4. Availability of reputed members among the member base

USP

1. Provision of tax rebate under section 80 G (proposed)
2. Redundancy based approach to ensure projects are completed on time
3. Use of technical resources which are in excess to the technical requirements
4. Availability of free support tools like support forums (http://itforums.scgworld.org/ and knowledge base http://wiki.scgworld.org)/
5. Handover of project implementation documents so that projects can be implemented by your own team after completion
6. Recognition of being associated with a social organization