Vignana Jyothi Institute, a premier management institution of Hyderabad organized a two- day inter-college national annual debate competition on Thursday. Some 30-odd colleges from Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Chennai and various parts of Andhra Pradesh participated in the event. Students from across the streams such as management, engineering, and law participated in the event.
Raghunandan Gunnala and Jaspreet Singh from Pendekanti Law College were awarded the first prize and a cash prize of `20,000. Ravi V and Sowmya J from Bhavan’s College were the first runners-up and won a cash prize of Rs 15,000.
The Institute has been organising the event since the last two years in the memory of Peter F Drucker, a management guru. “We want to cultivate the habit of debating. The culture of public speaking is vanishing,” says Ramesh A, senior assistant professor.
Professors in the college are of the opinion that communication today has changed from verbal to keyboard. Everything has become virtual. “Today, face-to-face communication is very important. Management is all about communicating and making the others agree with our ideas and we want to inculcate this in our students. Management is also about organis
ing thought, presenting them in such a way that you convince people and the moment you convince, you’re successful. Events like these go a long way to improve one’s communication, “says Kali Charan, assistant professor.
Massive efforts
Students of the institute have been working hard for the gala event since November. It took two-and-a-half months of hard work. “It’s a complete student- based event. Everything from designing posters to reaching out to other colleges was done by them. It was a great platform to gain first-hand experience with an event of this magnitude,” said Kali.
The event had various topics for debate. The final topic was on whether youth should join politics or not. The finalist believed that “The society needs a bigger revolution and it is time youths became part of the revolution. Even with the Anna Hazare protests, it was the youth that lent energy to the movement,” says Jaspreet Singh, a law student.
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