Updated on: Thursday, November 29, 2012
Just a month after the Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL) gave the A*** grade to TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), the business school has earned one more feather in its cap.
At the 20th Dewang Mehta Business Schools (DMBS) award ceremony held in Mumbai recently, TAPMI has won six awards including the best B-school award in Management category. The event was organized by Business School Affaire and Hindustan Unilever Limited.
K Manjunath, chief librarian of TAPMI was adjudged with the AIMS International Outstanding Librarian Award at the event and the award will be conferred on him at the 10th AIMS international conference on Management to be held in IIM-Bangalore in January 2013.
Other awards that the institution bagged are: Best professor in operations management - Raghunath Rudran, best placement brochure, second place in best student award (female category) and fourth place in overall best student award category — Esha Gupta, best student in management (male) — Unnikrishnana Nair, best paper presentation (research based) award — Sidharth Panigrahi, Unnikrishnan Nair. Contestants from more than 33 leading B-schools from across India took part in the event.
O Chowdari Prasad, chairman admissions, TAPMI said, "Such awards boost the confidence of students and will help attract students from different parts of the country and abroad."