SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL

Dear Sir,
SUBJECT: Sponsorship Proposal for Kshitij 2012

Kshitij is the annual techno-management symposium of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. A showcase
for innovation, the symposium aims to bring competition alive and celebrate technology. The festival
constitutes competitions, workshops, exhibitions and guest lecturers focusing on technological and managerial
fronts. The forthcoming edition of Kshitij will be held from January 27
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30
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, 2012.

Our sponsors have been an integral part of our fest culture and we look forward to them as our partners in
innovative education. We believe our symbiotic relationship will help the festival become bigger as well as
generate a lot of goodwill among the students of India. At the same time, it will give your company a huge
recall value among the students and faculty of IIT Kharagpur as well as other places.

Following are some highlights of the previous editions of Kshitij:

With its inception in 2004, Kshitij has gone on to become Asias largest techno-management fest
in less than 4 years. The 2010 edition witnessed a participation of over 40,000 students across
the world.

Prizes worth over INR 6,000,000 for various online and on-the-spot events in Kshitij 11.


Participants from IITs, IIMs, and other leading engineering & management institutes in India.

Participation from the top foreign universities including Stanford, M.I.T, Princeton, N.U.S,
Singapore, Kyoto University over the years.


Association with noted Fortune 500 companies like Barclays Capital, Nokia, Intel, Cisco, Google,
Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Honeywell, TCS, Texas Instruments, General Electric, Suzlon etc
apart from some of the biggest names of India Inc. like ITC, Wipro, SBI, HAL, ONGC etc.


Guest Lectures by George Kourounis (The Storm Chaser), Chris Phillips (The Invisible Man),
Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia), Prof. Kurt Wuthrich (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002), Mr.
Prahlad Kakkar (Renowned Ad guru), Mr. Philip Emeagwali (Father of Supercomputing), Dr.
Christopher McKay (Planetary Scientist with NASA), Wg. Cmdr. Mr. Rakesh Sharma (First Indian
cosmonaut), and Dilip Chhabria (Founder of DC Design), among others.

Workshops on next generation technologies by experts like Padma Shri Pramod Kale (on
Satellite Technology), Mr. Nathan Chronister (Ornithopters), apart from interactive workshops
by CBI on Forensic Sciences, workshop on Autonomous Robotics, Ethical Hacking, Hot Air
Ballooning, Film Making, workshop on Statistical Analysis System and workshop on Arthrobotics.

Expositions on Solar Car, Fog Screen, DRDO, Solar Robots (Kinetic-Arts) by Dan Roe, Mind
Reading Machines by Peter Robinson, Aero-Show by SMI.

Megashows like Nigel Mead Magic Show, 3D Holography, Lumen (a laser & fire jugglery show by
a group from Geneva), Laser Show by Laserman-3D, Pyro-technique show (Automated crackers),
Pyromania (fire jugglery show by a troupe from Israel), Sand Animation (Silica Art) and Feeding
the Fish (Electric Jugglery) among others.









WHY ASSOCIATE WITH US?

Kshitij is the largest techno-management festival of Asia, in terms of participation and prize
money.

Our participation base totals over 40,000 students including 6,000 outstation participants.

Our website www.ktj.in is the most visited college website with over 8 million hits for Kshitij
2010.

Our publicity campaign is by far the most extensive; we publicize Kshitij in over 1200 colleges;
through print, radio, television and web media wherein the company name occurs in
conjunction with Kshitij.

Presentations and publicity material (CDs, t-shirts, posters, souvenirs, notices, pamphlets etc)
are taken twice (in October and December) to various institutes across the country in the
publicity campaign by the organizing team members.

The online events of the fest begin in October hence our sponsors reach is not limited to the
four days of the fest alone.

Over 15 pre-Kshitij workshops, organized in various major cities like Delhi, Pune, Bangalore,
Hyderabad, etc to mobilize the student community about Kshitij, ensure year round publicity of
sponsors among the students.

Supporting our educational initiative will help you in meeting your Corporate Social Responsibilities
and at the same time, give you a good recall value among the student fraternity and faculty in institutes
across the country.
We sincerely believe that our sponsors form an integral part and contribute significantly to the
betterment of Kshitij and hence we invite you to share our enthusiasm and interest to take Kshitij to a
new horizon and make it a wholesome experience for our participants.

THE PROPOSAL

The Kshitij Souvenir is the token of remembrance of Kshitij. It is a short account of the Events,
Guest Lectures, Workshops, Megashows and Exhibitions held in Kshitij and has the list of all the
sponsors. The Souvenir goes to all our past and potential sponsors, alumni, faculty and the
participating colleges. Kindly find attached a copy of the Souvenir of Kshitij 2011.

The details of the advertisement are as follows:
Full page advertisement is of the size: 9"x7.5"
Half page advertisement is of the size: 4.5"x7.5"

For advertising in the Kshitij 2012 Souvenir, the cost is

(1) INR 25,000 for half-page advertisement
(2) INR 40,000 for full-page advertisement

As the stage gets set for the ninth edition of our Fest, we, the students of IIT Kharagpur, look
forward to your gracious co-operation and support in making our endeavor a huge success.









Kshitij 2012 promises to be a huge success, continuing the legacy of its predecessors. We look forward
to your association with our festival as we move to our next step towards horizon.

The following are the websites related to Kshitij:

http://www.ktj.in (Kshitij 2012)
http://robotix.in (Robotix, a part of Kshitij)

Thanking you in anticipation of your co-operation,

Yours sincerely
Saurav Sahu
Core Team Member
Kshitij 2012
IIT Kharagpur
+91 7501549015
saurav.sahu@ktj.in