Logistics Talent Hunt 2012 International Conference & Award, a talent hunt organized by T2P Consultants Limited in collaboration with Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, India, has felicitated eminent dignitaries like ‘Metro Man' E Sreedharan, M S Gujral and G Raghuram with a lifetime achievement award for their contribution in respective fields.

"Metro Man' E Sreedharan, ex-managing director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was honoured for work his progressive in "Passenger transport", M S Gujral, former chairman Railway Board was awarded for "Freight transport" and G Raghuram, IIM Ahmedabad was awarded as "Logistic Academician of the Year".

Logistics Talent hunt 2012 is a one day event that target quality visitors, top level professionals from across the country, aspiring management courses pursuing students with real projects to implement and who foresee their career in logistics sector.

Out of 250 entries, 15 teams and individual projects from all over India were evaluated and the best of the best students were awarded by the chief guest Anil Gupta, Managing Director of CONCOR India.

"This is the very first India focused industry is being organized to foster and capture knowledge with contributions made by intellectuals and simultaneously recognize and reward those individuals who were instrumental in organizing and shaping Indian logistic sector in verticals like air, surface and shipping etc and also industry like e-commerce, automobile, retail, pharmacy etc. whose functioning is largely dependent on logistics and supply chain function," explained Mr. Prem Prakash, Director of T2P Consultants Limited.

The panel judged the efficiency of the students considering the following parameters like - relevance of the topic, main focus, content, original idea, flow of the subject, depth of analysis, logical deductions and recommendation.

The award giving ceremony also witnessed Book Launch of "Logistics, an Untapped opportunity"  which consists of best 10 projects and case studies presented by students and release of White paper Logistics Sector The Rising Star, a knowledge paper which focuses on highlighting the issues currently faced by the industry and also the opportunities that lie ahead. It also draws attention to some of the things that need to be addressed both by the Government and Industry to make it a booming sector it deserves to be.

The jury panel included eminent industry experts and professionals namely, Lt. Gen (Retd) D V Kalra, PVSM, AVSM (Vice Chairman CILT), Dr. P K Goel (CCM Northern Railways, Ex MD IRCTC), Prof. Veni Mathur ( Prof. IIT Delhi), Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty (Exe. Director DTDC), Mr. Rajeev Bharadwaj ( Group GM CONCOR), Mr. Vishal Khanna (Vertical Head Logistics & SCM Cognigent Inc.), Mr. Syed K. Husain (Group Director - Corporate Affairs of House of Patels) among others.