Guidelines

• The event is purely offline and therefore the presentations have to be made in person before the jury
• The presentation can be individual or a joint effort subject to maximum of three people per team
• For multi-author presentations, there cannot be more than one faculty. Multi member teams can have only one faculty and one or two students (Doctoral/PG/UG)
• The presentation must be around the theme of the event. The concept or a principle that is sought to be discussed through the paper must be clearly illustrated
• Each team must answer the competition question and submit the same before the deadline. Select answers upon acceptance will be invited for presentation on the competition day. All submissions will be on a platform accessible through the link provided
• The answer to the competition question must be between 500-700 words only.
• The presentation would be for maximum eight minutes
• Every thirty second time overrun (or part thereof) would mean a deduction of two points per overrun. There would be separate time jury to monitor the same
• There would be maximum of seven minutes allocated for Questions and Answers.
• The presentation should not exceed three slides
• The jury would be a mix of economics and non-economics experts
• There would be preliminary elimination rounds, the best submissions would proceed to the finals
• The research paper would be reviewed before the event and would have a weightage of 25%
• The presentation before the jury would have a weightage of 75%
• The criteria for judging would be put up ON the competition website
• The decision of the technical committee is final in case of any disputes