In his inaugural speech, Dr Manmohan Singh released the much awaited IIT Alumni Impact Study 2008 in front of over 1500 delegates attending PanIIT 2008 conference.

PanIIT in partnership with the Indian Brand Equity Fund (IBEF), commissioned a first-of-its-kind study on the impact of IIT alumni. The study aims to take stock of contributions made by IITians over the last 50+ years across professions and geographies and create a fact-base for mobilizing the IIT community to dialogue on how they can do even more, individually and collectively.  Zinnov Management Consulting, which employs a significant number of IITians, assisted PanIIT and IBEF with designing and conducting this ambitious study.

Here is the summary of findings as revealed by this study.

The “IIT Impact Study”, as Prof. Ananth mentioned, has finally provided some hard data; people do not have to take IIT’s contribution to nation-building on faith anymore!