For Pavneet Singh Gulyani, the 22-year-old Punjab Engineering College student who topped the IIM Common Admission Test with a100-percentile score, the world is a different place. And he knows it. “Recession, lay-offs , bail-out and stimulus packages have become household words. In a capitalist system, this happens as it did for a brief period in the 1980s,” he says.
The final-year mechanical engineering student, who aspires to become an entrepreneur, sees a ray of hope. “I guess there is someone out there making money even in these grim times. Someone like Warren Buffet has faced tougher times than what we are facing today and is still going strong.”
Son of a shopkeeper, Mohali-based Pavneet is one of the many Indians who believe in the power of the domestic economy. “In India, I think recession or slowdown should not last for more than a year or so. In the long run, things will be better and Indian markets could regain their lost position.”
It is with this confidence that Pavneet hopes to fulfil his entrepreneurial dreams of bringing quality education to the Chandigarh region. “My focus will be on the education sector and especially on higher education. To begin with, I would like to begin a business school in the region since we lack quality education,” he adds. Not to disappoint, the region fared equally well, adding bling to the celebrations . Saurabh Verma, also of PEC and the only student in the region to report calls from all seven IIMs, secured a score of 99.94 percentile . Sanjot Malhi, son of DGP Haryana Home Guards and Civil Defence Gurjot Singh Malhi, scored 99.83 percentile.
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