Yashwantrao Chavan Maha open varsity announces awards

City-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University today announced its awards for various categories.
While poet Arun Naik of Nerur in Ratnagiri district will get first 'Vishaka' award for his poem collection 'Andharvartulatil Vedanapat', the second 'Vishakha' award will be given to poet Balika Bitale of Malshiras for her collection 'Magezinitun Sutatey Goli', an release by the varsity said.
The third 'Vishakha' award will be given to Asmita Gurav of Jalgaon for her poem collection 'Turt itakech'.
The Panjabrao Deshmukh memorial award for writing and research will be given to Pandit Vidyasagar, Vice-Chancellor of Nanded-based Swami Ramanandteerth Marathawada University.
This year, the categories included the crowd favorites

such as Center Transformation, High Impact Global Roles and Great Place to Innovate. However, in keeping with current trends, Zinnov also instituted a number of new categories, including the Most Effective People Organization, Most Effective Gen Y Engagement and Best-in-Class Centers of Excellence.

Award Categories and Winners
Category 1: Technical Role Model - External Jury and Nomination Based This category was an individual contributor award and recognized those individuals who are technology stalwarts and have served by example and inspired individuals within their organization and beyond to follow a technical career path.
Winners:
- Parimala Hariprasad, Amadeus Software Labs India Private Limited

- Ravish Masti, Delphi Automotive Systems PLC
- Ramamurthy Badrinath, Ericsson
- Sandeep R Patil, IBM Corporation (System and Technology Lab)
Category 2: Intrapreneur of the Year
This category is an individual contributor award and will recognize those individuals who have
been exemplary in displaying a spirit of entrepreneurship within the organizations.
Winners:
- Dr. Aloknath De, Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore
- Ganesh H. Shankar, Ericsson
Winners:
- EMC India Center of Excellence
- FIS, India
- PayPal India Pvt. Ltd
Category 4: Most Effective Gen Y Engagement This category was a company-wide award to recognize those MNC R&D centers that have successfully managed the challenges of attrition, engagement, acquisition and management of Gen Y employees.

Winners:
- BMC Software India Pvt. Ltd.
- Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Private Ltd.
- Technical Center India, Continental Category 5: Excellence in University Research Partnerships This category was a company-wide award to recognize those MNC R&D centers that have significantly leveraged the university ecosystem for research partnerships. The assessment criteria will focus on the depth, scale and quality of the interaction of Indian centers with tier 1 and tier 2 universities in India and abroad.
Winners:
- ABB Global Industries and Services Private Limited
- Netapp India Private Limited
Category 6: Center Transformation This award category is a companywide award that recognized those companies who are leaders in the R&D in India and have rapidly evolved in their journey from being a pure play cost center to a value center.

This category of award will be assessed on the nature and type of transformation, the drivers, the enablers, the key milestones and metrics achieved and the key outcomes - technology, business, topline and bottom line generated.