The event witnessed a fun-filled musical evening & lots of exciting giveaways
Bangalore 25 June 2016: ‘iVerve’ the Employees’ club of Infinite Computer Solutions, a global service provider, hosted the second edition of the much anticipated ‘Infinite Golf Challenge’ at The Clover Greens golf course in Bangalore today. The Infinite Golf Challenge, is a premier annual fund-raising golfing event bringing together – Golfers, Sponsors and employees from Infinite for a worthy cause - to raise funds for Sparsha, an NGO that works towards keeping children off the streets. Like the first edition, this year too saw many leading corporates came forward to support the event, which include Cisco, Assetz, Futurisk and WealthAdvisors who are the platinum sponsors; 22by7, Callaway, Orion UNIGLOBE Mod Travel who are the associate sponsors for the event.
Corporates @IGC
Mr. Upinder Zutshi MD & CEO @IGC
People from Sparsha @IGC
Player @IGC
An array of leading CEO’s and Managing Directors from various companies had a fun-filled day at the event. The noteworthy aspect of this event is transparency, which is maintained in transferring all funds generated from the efforts of the employees directly to the NGO.
The 5000+ employees at Infinite actively manage activities aimed at supporting & creating awareness around social causes through the Employees’ Club- iVerve. iVerve is actively involved in driving the Infinite Golf Challenge by engaging employees to contribute both their time and expertise. Note: the entire tournament is planned and implemented by individual employees of Infinite without the help of any external agency, in a bid to minimise costs and increase the collection for the NGO.
The tournament format was designed to be exciting for each player and included attractive prizes and fun –on- course activities. This year featured many On-course prizes which include- Longest Drive; Smartest Straightest Drive; Closest to pin, among others. The Infinite Golf Challenge was played both as a team of two and individual level and was across two handicap categories, including Net and Gross point systems to ascertain winners of the tournament.
The tournament witnessed more than 100+ passionate golfers who came together to prove their golfing prowess and compete with one other to win the many attractive prizes which were on the offing. The registration is through contribution to Sparsha at INR 5,000/- per participant.
Speaking at the occasion Upinder Zutshi, Managing Director and CEO of Infinite said, “We are delighted by the overwhelming response to the second edition of this event. We at Infinite have a legacy of promoting sports in India, whether it is golf, swimming, athletics or badminton. As an organization we are inspired by sports of different types. The passion of the Infinite employees to conceptualise something of this scale and to create awareness for a worthy social cause is something we are all very proud of.”
Spokesperson Mr.Gopinath from Sparsha said,” We appreciate the cause that Infinite as an organisation is supporting, giving us the necessary fillip and motivation to work towards empowering the underprivileged section of the society. We thank Infinite and their employees in helping create awareness to the cause."
About Sparsha:
Sparsha was established with the prime objective of proclaiming, protecting and defending Children’s rights as affirmed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). Like in many other countries, in India the rights of children are still generally low on agendas.
The objective of Sparsha is to design organizational initiatives and establish safe platform for needy and vulnerable children, i.e. drop outs, street children and working children who are economically and socially challenged to provide basic services and integrate them into the main-stream of society. Providing shelter homes for children who are in need of care and protection, re-admitting children who are out of schools, establishing alternative family care for children without parental care are some of the major activities of our organization.
About Infinite:
Infinite Computer Solutions (India) Ltd., (NSE Symbol: Infinite; BSE Scrip Code: 533154), provides technology based business process solutions, next-gen mobility solutions and product engineering services, specializing in the Healthcare, Banking & Finance, Telecommunications & Technology and Media & Publishing industries, for Fortune 1000 companies. Our solutions build on proprietary industrial frameworks that significantly reduce work effort and cost while providing faster go-to-market speeds and nimble responses to market dynamics, a solution we call Platformization™. Infinite has over 5,000 employees and 8 global delivery centers.
Established in 1999, headquartered in Bangalore, India, with an expanse across three continents, a diverse employee base and over 50 premier clients, including several leading Fortune 1000 companies. We have also been listed twice as NASSCOM’s top 20 IT Companies in India.