14th March 2024
The 56th Foundation Day SJIM saw a vibrant evening marked by scintillating speeches by our guests, awarding of general merit scholarship winners of first- and second-year students, bestowing of the annual SJIM Social Entrepreneur Award 2024, and the cultural dance. In his address, the Director, Dr. Manoj D’Souza SJ recounted the long history of SJIM, Karnataka’s oldest business school established in 1968.

The Chief Guest Mr. Anil Valluri, regional vice president for the India and SAARC region at Palo Alto Networks spoke stirringly of India’s tremendous economic and technological progress in the last several decades, and how Indian emphasis on technology and management enabled this. He also felicitated general merit scholarship winners of first- and second-year students.

The annual SJIM Social Entrepreneur Award 2024 was awarded to Mr. Srikanth Bolla, the first international blind student in management in MIT, USA and the founder of Bollant, a high growth organization that manufactures areca-nut products while providing employment to people with disabilities. In his inspiring speech, he called on the students and others to dream big and make a difference in the lives of people. The SJIM Award is given to impactful social entrepreneurship. It contains a citation, felicitation and a cash prize.

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