Vigilance-Awareness-Week-2015
Elocution
Competition on The Role of Youth in Fighting Corruption
On the occasion of Vigilance Awareness
Week-2015, an elocution competition for students was organised by GITAM
Institute of Management on 27th October,2015, in association with
The New Indian Assurance Company Ltd. The welcome address was given by
Prof.P.Sheela, Vice Principal of GIM. She highlighted the rich youth resource
of India and their responsibility to steer the world. Dr.K.Manjusree Naidu,
Chairperson, Student Affairs, spoke about the poor rank of India in the
corruption index and measures to be taken against corruption like spreading
literacy, use of technology and social media. She also gave an idea about the
Central Vigilance Commission which is an apex Indian governmental body created
in 1964 to address governmental corruption.
Opening remarks were delivered by
Dr.SriHarsha Das, Chief Regional Manager, The New Indian Assurance Company Ltd.
He stressed that corruption is a cancerous growth which happens due to our
wants and obviously there are no limits to the wants of human beings. Sri
Ch.V.Narendra Deve, Deputy Superintendent of Police, CBI explained how
corruption starts at home. He urged students to always be honest, follow the
rules and emphasized that earning anything in a right way gives one more
satisfaction.
Students from all institutes of GITAM
University participated with great enthusiasm in the Elocution competition on the
topic “The Role of Youth in Fighting Corruption”. They defined corruption and
its origin when citizens fail to believe that the nation is the common property
of all its citizens and. They spoke of how lakhs of crores are lost in scams
and bribes and how human needs turning to desires and desires turning to lust
leads to corruption
The jury for the competition were Prof.
G. Raghaviah, GIM, Sri Ch.V.Narendra
Deve and Dr.SriHarsha Das. The first prize winner was a given a cash prize of
Rs 2000 and a memento, the second prize winner was given a cash prize of Rs
1500 and a memento, the third prize winner was given a cash prize of Rs 1000
and a memento. Three consolation prizes were also announced with cash prize of
Rs 500 and memento.
R. Divya of MBA 2nd year
bagged the first prize. A. Vishala of MBA 2nd year bagged the second
prize. Ramakanth MBA 1st year bagged the third prize. D. Avinash of MBA 2nd
year, Krishna Sharma,B.Tech,3rd year,EEE and Kotelo Motseko, BBA 1st
year, won the consolation prizes.