HTMT Annual Day Celebrations Rang Tarang Concludes with Festivity

Bangalore, Tuesday, October 19th 2004

Hinduja TMT Ltd, the IT flagship company of the Hinduja Group concluded their month long celebrations of their Annual Day, ‘Rang Tarang’, on Sunday, with an assortment of cultural programmes. The highlight of the event was a range of competitions ranging from brain-teasers like quizzes to crowd-pullers like dance and antakshari. The lighter side of life was also explored by competitions like Mad Ads.

Group dance was judged by acclaimed dancers Ms.Shamala Aswath, Director of Sri Srikanteshwara Kala Shale and Ms. Manasa Rao, Bharatnatyam dancer and TV producer. Mr. Ujjwal Kabra and Mr. Vinod Savio, senior copywriters with J Walter Thompson judged the Mad Ads competition.

The event not only witnessed the winners of the competitions felicitated, but also the best performers across the organization during the course of the year received various rewards and recognitions like the 'Super Trooper Award' and other individual excellence awards. The internal awards and prizes for the cultural competitions were given away by members of the senior management in the organization.

“Hosted every year, Rang Tarang brings together HTMTians from across projects and functions on a single platform to celebrate life! A cultural extravaganza, the programme helps showcase the rich talent, potential and promise that HTMTians show”, said Mr. R. Mohan, President & CEO, HTMT. “The objective of Rang Tarang is to help people identify their strengths and talents while developing their leadership abilities in an informal setting. The BPO industry is indeed an effervescent one, and in order to keep the young employees refreshed and charged, it is imperative to innovate HR policies and practices,” he added.

This year, seven ambitious teams - named after the colours of the rainbow competed against each other. Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red - each unique, but together forming the spectrum that HTMT is made of - complete only in unison. For that is what Rang Tarang achieved – a showcase of the distinct parts that make up the whole!

About HTMT :

Hinduja TMT Ltd. (HTMT) is one of India’s premier IT houses, focusing on information technology enabled services (ITeS) and business process outsourcing (BPO) besides IT services. HTMT is ranked among the top 15 ITES-BPO players in India employing over 3500 people in Bangalore, Mumbai (India), Manila, (Philippines), New Jersey (USA) and Toronto (Canada) and ranked first in the “preferred employer” category in the employee satisfaction survey conducted by Dataquest and IDC.

HTMT’s expertise is in the areas of insurance, financial services, manufacturing and telecom. With delivery centers in Bangalore, Mumbai, Manila, Toronto and New Jersey, the company has marketing offices in the USA, UK and Europe. HTMT has world-class infrastructure in line with global standards of environment, resources and deliverables. It has recently acquired majority control in Customer Contact Centre Inc. (c3), a Philippines based call centre company. HTMT is one of the few companies in the BPO business that has output quality very close to six sigma standards and has set its eye firmly on a continuous improvement program.

HTMT has been assessed for SEI CMM Level 4 for software development and is also ISO 9001:2000 and BS 7799 compliant.