Team Airtel won the Great HR Debate Championship Trophy at the National HR Conference (NHRC) 2017, recently organized by the Institute of Personnel Management (IPM).

Airtel is the First Telecommunication Provider in Sri Lanka to have won this prestigious award in the history of the NHRC organized by IPM.  Commenting on the achievement, Jinesh Hegde, CEO of Airtel Lanka says “I’m very proud of our Team’s achievement. Airtel always believes in developing talent through exposure in multifaceted challenges, empowering them cross functionally, thus creating opportunities to harness their full potential”.

Photo caption: Airtel Debating Team comprising of Prarthana Ranasinghe from Human Resources, Fawaz Nizamdeen from Customer Service, Zahara Ansary from Marketing and Lalindra Munasinghe from Corporate Sales , presented, well researched counter arguments when opposing the topic: "Strategically designed HR practices will lead to organizational innovation and success, only if driven by a high tech - high touch culture".