03 June, 2019, Bengaluru: A four-member team from IIM Bangalore, comprising Ajai Rao, Arti Pateriya, Harish Sudarshan and Sreejit Ramakumar, all students of the Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) batch of 2019-20, has won the Case Study Competition organized by IRSC at IIT Delhi, supported by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), NITI Aayog and United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), under iSAFE 18 – The Safer India Challenge, from May 30 to May 31, 2019. The contest was part of the 2nd International Conference on Safer Mobility, 2019.
The topic for the competition was how to reduce accidents caused by potholes. The competition had over 221 registrations from all over India and was judged by an esteemed panel comprising Abhay Damle – Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; Amitabh Kant – CEO, NITI Aayog; Saurabh Jain – Vice President, Paytm, and several others.
ICSM is an annual event conducted by Indian Road Safety Campaign in collaboration with MoRTH and UNITAR. The conference aims to propagate the vision of making Indian roads safer by collaborating with the Government, corporates, NGOs, research institutes and the youth of the nation.