Akhil Siddharth P and Preetham Upadhya of PES University, Bangalore and Jayakanthan R and Bibin Babu of Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai won the Indian Oil Rajagiri National Business Quiz held at the valley campus of Rajagiri at Kakkanad for the student and corporate category respectively.

This was the culmination of three online quizzes held over a period of one month across the country and the offline quiz held at the campus.

More than 2,000 teams participated and five teams each from students and corporates were selected for the semi finals. Three teams from both categories were shortlisted from the offline preliminary round held earlier on the day for the finals. The semi finals were held separately for student and corporate categories and top three teams from both the groups were qualified for the joint finals.

The other teams qualified for the finals were IISER Mohali and MICA, Ahmedabad from colleges and Novartis, Hyderabad and Nexus Consulting, Bangalore from corporate.

The quiz master was Mitesh Agarwal, Vice President and CTO of Oracle India. Winners were awarded a prize money of Rs One lakh. Rs 50,000 and Rs 15,000 for the first and second runners up were presented by the chief guest P. S. Moni, State Head and Chief General Manager Indian Oil Corporation.