Lanka leads at Manthan

The presentation of a trophy for an award for a project nominated by ICTA at Manthan Award South Asia 2010 at the Pakland Exotica Hotel Delhi recently

Sri Lanka topped the region by winning six awards out of 57 projects nominated by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) at the Manthan Award South Asia 2010 held in New Delhi recently.

The 10.5 to hundred 'awards to nominations' ratio, puts Sri Lanka ahead of all the other seven participating countries.

Bangladesh came a close second to Sri Lanka with a 9. 8 percent awards to nominations ratio on the basis of the five awards it won out of 51 nominations while India's 28 awards came from 313 nominations - 8.95 per cent ratio.

The overall ratio yielding 41 awards out of a post-screening total of 434 nominations stands at 9.4 percent.

This year eight countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka participated under 15 categories resulting in 41 winning projects.