Background
List of Project in 2011
India as a country has focused on inclusive growth, which aims at bridging the divide amongst rural and urban population of the country; among genders; among regions; and among organized and unorganized sectors of the economy. The Eleventh Five Year Plan was formulated keeping this focus and the Approach Paper to the Twelfth Plan aims at faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. IMT Ghaziabad as a business school aligned with this societal vision, has the intellectual resources in the form of its faculty and students to contribute to these cherished social objectives. CRICKET (Centre for Rural Innovation, Capacity Building, Knowledge Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) has been established to facilitate this process. CRICKET is a multi-dimensional grass-root level platform for engaging in action research. It is focused at vital but often neglected segments of the Indian society, such as rural innovators and micro and small enterprises and provide them professional guidance in managing the commercial aspects of their innovations, developing business plans, refining business processes and thereby nurturing sustainable business. CRICKET considers technology as the key enabler of innovations and a facilitator of social entrepreneurship. The lessons learnt through the engagements with the target group would be channelized into action research based case studies and other research publications.
Dimensions of Cricket CRICKET is founded on the pillars of: •
Innovation focused on but not limited to the rural population of the country.
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Capacity building of micro, small and medium enterprises in managing their business.
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Leveraging knowledge resource of individuals, organizations and society for growth and development.
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Developing and supporting entrepreneurship as an instrument of economic growth and particularly social entrepreneurship for promoting inclusiveness.
Host Organizaton
Project Theme
Drishtee Foundaton
Study on Sustainability & Cash Management in Kiosk Banking
American India Foundaton
Design of MIS to monitor the progress of “Digital Equalizer” Project
NASSCOM Foundaton
Assessing the impact of NASSCOM Social Innovaton Awards
dLight Energy
Developing a Marketng & Distribuion strategy for Solar Lights in Western Utar Pradesh
IntelleCash
Preparing a Road Map for Mergers and Acquisitons in the Microfinance Industry
I-Farm venture Advisers
Exploring the Potental and Scalability of Micro-collated Services as a Business Model for Farmers
In 2012, a similar program called Kellogg CRTI-IMT Peer Learning Internship Programme (KCIPLIP) has been launched to cover 10 teams of Kellogg CRTI and IMT Students on 10 projects Action Research Projects of IMT Faculty, assisted by Students During 2011, several research projects were taken by IMT Faculty assisted by PGDM Students.These included: •
Feasibility Study for establishing PURA (Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) in Bahraich District of Uttar Pradesh (Dr. Raniana Agarwal, Dr. Surinder Batra, Dr. Neeraj Awasthy and team)
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Capacity Building at District Level to enhance the performance of MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) (Dr. Shalini Kalia; Dr. Lipi Das and team)
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Analyzing the Consumption Pattern for Packaged Goods in the Bharat of India--A Case of Mandi District in Himachal Pradesh (Professors Kaushik Datta; Harvinder Singh; Om Krishnan, Lubna Nafees and team)
Key Projects Under Cricket
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Kellogg CRTI-IMT Peer Learning Internship Programme (KCIPLIP)
Study of Innovation in Indian Small and Medium Enterprises (Dr. V K Gupta, Dr. Bindu Gupta and team)
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Project
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Making intelligent and smart use of technology in making all this happen.
Each of these dimensions has a strategic role to play-for the country, for the society and for lMT as a business school which would deliver on these dimensions.
IMT Ghaziabad (through CRICKET) has entered into a strategic partnership with CRTI (Centre for Research in Technology and Innovation) of Kellogg School of Management to share best practices, conduct joint research programs and carry out joint student assignments in the US and India. Both the institutes have a firm belief in the philosophy of learning through doing and action research as an instrument of pedagogy. An important manifestation of this partnership was the conduct of a joint Kellogg CRTI - IMT Internship Programme spanning a period of ten weeks in 2011. Under this Programme, six Kellogg CRTI students were paired with six IMT Ghaziabad students on action research projects for specified host organizations in India.
The GEM Project is concerned with the study of Entrepreneurship in India, jointly with Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad. This will aim at preparing an India-specific report on entrepreneurship, which would also form part of GEM Global Report, being disseminated globally every year by the GEM Consortium. Collaboratively, two nation-wide surveys would be conducted under the Project to study the nature and extent of entrepreneurship activity in the country and perceptions about how the entrepreneurial framework conditions influence these in the Indian context.
Research Projects by PGDM Students
PGDM First Year Students
Besides the above, PGDM first year students are allotted several short term live projects as a part of their course on Interpersonal Communication. These live projects are designed to converge with the themes of CRICKET. Key objectives of these projects are to enhance interpersonal skills of the students and sensitize them to the societal needs for nation building.
Ankit Gupta
Akhil Gupta
Bhavik Shah
Debopriya Bhattacharyya
Kanika Jabalia
Neha Gupta
Megha Bhalla
Mainak Basu
Niladri Majumdar
Mukul Agarwal
Priya Poddar
Pankaj Singh
Saurabh Rathi
Sayan Das
Shilpi Pachauri
Simran Preet
Vikas Marwaha
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People behind CRICKET The initiative for establishing CRICKET was taken by Dr. Bibek Banerjee, Director IMT Ghaziabad and Academic Mentor, IMT Group. The activities of CRICKET are coordinated by Dr. Surinder Batra, Dean (Research) and Head CRICKET. He is assisted by Dr. Neeraj Awasthy a full time research fellow. Most importantly, the resources driving the activities of CRICKET are the faculty members and students of IMT Ghaziabad. Besides, external experts and research associates provide support for CRICKET activities on a case-to-case basis.
CRICKETCOM: Students Committee Abhishek Kumar
Amritanshu Mehra
Anshul Gautam
Chander Kr. Singh
Gourav Mukherjee
Harsh Ajmera
The CRICKET Team
Krishna K Mothukuru
Kunal Arora
Following faculty members have opted to participate in CRICKET activities:
Kush Agarwal
Manchit Kalani
Manish Pruthi
Mrigank Shankar
Dr. Surinder Batra
Dr. Bhavna Bhalla
Nupur Gurbuxani
Pranjal Gururani
Dr. Bindu Gupta
Dr. Bikramjit Rishi
Ritwik Vijayan
Shilpi Pachauri
Dr. Dhiraj Sharma
Dr. Harvinder Singh
Shubhi Tripathi
Sukriti Tayal
Prof. Kaushik Datta
Prof. Lipi Das
V S Parasaran
Vinita Choudhary
Dr. Lubna Nafees
Dr. Mrinalini Shah
Prof. Rajat Gera
Dr. Ranjana Agarwal
Dr. Rashmi Agarwal
Dr. Sanjeev Prashar
Dr. Shalini Kalia
Dr. Neeraj Awasthy (Research Fellow)
PGDM students engaged in research projects Passing Out in 2012
Contact Us Dr. Surinder Batra Dean Research & Head (CRICKET) Phone : +91 120 3002241
Bhawna Girdhar
Hemanth M
E-mail : sbatra@imt.edu
Neha Gupta
Nimesh Gupta
Dr. Neeraj Awasthy
Niyoti Jagtap
Rajat Udainiya
Research Fellow and Coordinator (CRICKET)
Rishab Bucha
Rohit Laumas
Phone : +91 120 3002306
Vineet Sehgal
Vishwajeet Chopra
E-mail : nawasthy@imt.edu
Vivek Gupta
Vivek Sharma
Kellogg-CRTI and IMT Students alongwith Director, CRTI; Director, IMT Ghaziabad; Vice President Sevayatra and Faculty of IMT Ghaziabad coordinating the Kellogg CRTI-IMT Internship Project 2011