Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India

The IBBI, in its endeavour to create awareness about the insolvency and bankruptcy regime amongst the students of higher education, is promoting essay competitions through Institutes of Learning. The following students were successful in the essay competitions:

Sl. No.	Period	Institute of Learning	Name of Winner	Subject of Essay	Runner-up	Subject of Essay
1	February, 2018	IIM Rohtak	Mr. Naveen Kumar	Corporate Liquidation	Mr. Parag Navani	Corporate Liquidation
2	March, 2018	National Law Institute University, Bhopal	Mr. Utsav Mitra	Emerging Jurisprudence on Corporate Insolvency: Director Duties in the Twilight Zone	Ms. Shefali Chawla	The Frenzy of Private Settlement under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
3	April, 2018	Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad	Mr. Kaivalya Shah	Reforms by RBI for Resolution of Stressed Assets: An Overnight Chronicle?	Ms. Namrata Dubey	The New Conundrum: Guarantor in Insolvency Regime
4	June, 2018	Gujarat National Law University	Nikhil Agarwal	Emerging Jurisprudence on Corporate Insolvency	Pratik Parashar Sarmah	Emerging Jurisprudence on Corporate Insolvency
5	September, 2018	ICFAI Law School	Mr. Girjesh Patidar	Emerging Jurisprudence in Corporate Insolvency	Ms. Tanya Kanwar	Emerging Jurisprudence in Corporate Insolvency
6	July, 2019	National Law University, Delhi	Mr. Debaranjan Goswami	Understanding the Fate of Guarantees under the Insolvency Regime	Mr. Shubham Jain and Mr. Vishvesh Vikram (Joint authors)	Need for Appellate Review of Resolution Professionals
7	August, 2020	National Law University, Delhi	Mr. Shubham Jain	The (Im) permissibility of Discrimination under the Insolvency Code	Ms. Isha Gupta	Pre- CIRP Payment of dues by Resolution Professionals
8	November, 2020	Gujarat National Law University	Ms. Preksha Mehndiratta	Envisioning the public as a stakeholder in the insolvency process of government companies. The Way Forward	Mr. Abhiraj Singh Shekhawat Mr. Shivaang Kumar Maheshwari	“Mediation in Insolvency Matters: Bolstering The Achilles Heel” “Scheme of Arrangement: A Second Chance at ‘Resolution’ for Indian companies in Liquidation”
9	March, 2021	Institute of Law, Nirma University	Ms. Kumari Saloni	Balance sheet-acknowledgment and ‘legal compulsion’ – Towards a principled approach	Ms. Malika Tiwari Ms. Palak Jain	Resolution of ‘Too Big To Fail’ Financial Institutions: Resurrecting the FRDI Bill, 2017
10	April, 2021	National Law Institute University, Bhopal	Ms. Aparajita Kaul	Success, learning and innovation : IBC and its enduring role in the development of the Indian Credit Market	Mr. Urmil Bhavesh Shah	Attaining value maximization & credit development for small business debtors
11	June, 2021	National Law University, Jodhpur	Mr. Pragyansh Nigam and Mr. Rajat Sinha (Co-authors)	Proposed Prepackaged Insolvency in India and the conundrum of connected parties in India	Mr. Aaryan Agarwal	Saving MSME in the COVID Era
12	June, 2021	Department of Management Studies, NIT, Silchar	Ms. Liza Das	Role of IBC in development of Credit Market in India	Mr. Lokesh Kumar Das	Role of IBC in development of Credit Market in India

The Gujarat National Law University, Gandhi Nagar in collaboration with the IBBI organized an all India Research Writing Competition on 'Legal Landscape of Insolvency and Bankruptcy in India - Journey since 2016'. The winners of the competition are:

Position.	Name of Winner	Institute	Subject
First	Mr. Subhadip Choudhuri	Gujarat National Law University	Should the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code be Shadowed by Limitation
Second	Ms. Ayushi Singh	National Law University, Jodhpur	Investigation of Interpretative Growth of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Statutes: Settlements, Open-Ends and Lacunae
Third	Mr. Rohan Kohli	National Law India University, Bhopal	The Impact and Relevance of Provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 in the Wake of New Insolvency Law

RESULT OF ESSAY COMPETITION