The winning team from IIT Delhi will now represent India at the Enactus World Cup, which will take place in October 2021.
NEW DELHI: The eighteenth edition of the Enactus India National Competition 2021, held online on August 21, was won by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. The IIT Delhi Enactus team presented two projects, titled ‘Arth’ and ‘Jhabua.’
“The national competition is an annual event that provides students with a platform to showcase the exemplary work they do in communities, and the winning team goes on to represent the country at the World Cup,” KPMG International, a professional services multinational, said in a statement.
This year’s national competition attracted over 4000 students from 80 colleges across India to showcase their social entrepreneurship projects. More than 200 CEOs and senior executives from the entrepreneurship world served as judges as the teams presented their entrepreneurship projects.
IIT Delhi winner
According to the KPMG statement, “this year, over 110 Enactus college teams in India worked on over 170 social entrepreneurship projects, directly impacting over 1.7 million lives.” Enactus India’s vice president and chief programme officer, Shmita Ramkumar, said: “For their perseverance and passion this past year, we owe a debt of gratitude to our students, projects, faculty advisors, and mentors. Our students rose to the occasion, creating over 140 COVID initiatives in support of India, impacting over 1.7 million people this year.”
“We have supported the Business Ethics Grant for Enactus teams across India since 2014, and we will continue to support the grant this year as well,” said Arun M Kumar, chairman and CEO of KPMG in India. The 2021 final was a tough competition, and I congratulate the winning team from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, on their victory. While the winning IIT Delhi team’s first project, Arth, is about wood logs made from cow dung, their second project, Jhabua, is about biogas.
