Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Saturday, May 18, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, May 18, 2002 |
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Trends India Inc now goes quizzing for a cause Our Bureau
NEW DELHI, May 17 QUIZZING seems to have become the nation's pastime. If it's not on the small screen to make the big bucks, it takes off in a brick-and-mortar auditorium to raise funds for a cause. This Sunday in the Capital it will be the turn of India Inc to prove its academic mettle and simultaneously cough up cash in aid of under-privileged children. Around the same week corporates in Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai and Chennai will also be making a similar gesture. In fact, for the fourth CRY FACT Corporate Quiz rolling trophy this year, 154 corporate teams are participating. In Delhi, 35 corporate houses have come together including the bigwigs such as Citibank, American Express, GE Capital, Outlook, Ranbaxy, Maruti and KPMG. While the scope of the quiz is general knowledge, corporate and business affairs, sending a team comprising two or three members is not enough to remain in the running. Team members have to appear for a preliminary exam to qualify for the final regional round and face the country's best-known quiz masters. At the Delhi round, it will be Roshan Abbas and in Mumbai, it will be Derek O'Brien, and also involved are Indrajit Gupta and Siddharth Basu. Basu's company, Tree of Knowledge, is providing the content for FACT 2002. "Corporates take the FACT quiz seriously and that is heartening and rewarding," says Roshan Abbas, who handled last year's quiz. "I like the format too, where corporates pay and get their money's worth in terms of giving to charity and having fun." Though the FACT rolling trophy has been on for four years, last year it was organised in Mumbai for the first time and this year Chennai has been added to the itinerary. CRY, which is a non-profit organisation working in the aid of underprivileged children, has this year partnered with HT Careers and Archies to organise the event.
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