Major achievement for Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar! The institute has been awarded the first CII Sports Business Award in the ‘Best Sports Facility’ category. The award was given for creating top-notch sports facilities in the country.
Chankya Chaudhry, the Chairman of the National Committee on Sports of the Confederation of Indian industries (CII), handed over the prestigious award to Dr Achyuta Samanta, the Founder of KIIT and KISS.
Not only KIIT, the award ceremony also recognised Jay Shah, Honorary Secretary, BCCI and President, Asian Cricket Council was recognised as the Best Sports Business Leader, while Nita Ambani, the Chairperson and Founder of Reliance Foundation, along with Dr Achyuta Samanta were adjudged Sports Business Leaders for their exceptional leadership in sports business.
The jury comprised of several national and global leaders from the sporting world. This included Olympic Gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, Michelle Wade, Commissioner to South Asia for the State government of Victoria, Australia along with Abhisheak Binaykia, Partner, Transformation, Head of Technology Center of Excellence and Head of Sports Advisory, Grant Thornton Bharat. The jury also included Nic Coward, Expert Partner, Portas Consulting and Aahna Mehotra, Partner TMT Law Practice.
Royal Challenger, Bangalore was awarded the Sports Franchise of the Year while Tamil Nadu was awarded as Best state promoting sports.
Earlier, KIIT was awarded the prestigious Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2022 by the Government of India along with the FICCI India Sports Award 2022 and Sport Star Aces Award 2022 by the Hindu and Biju Patnaik Sports Award 2019 for ‘Best Contribution for promotion of sports and games’ by the Odisha government.
This article has been produced on behalf of KIIT by ABP Digital Brand Studio.