Following activities were held: -

1.      Badminton Doubles

2.      Volleyball

3.      Throw Ball

4.      Tug of War

The event began with the inaugural ceremony of ribbon cutting by Director Dr. Timira Shukla, Director MBA Dr. V.N. Bajpai, PGDM Chairperson Dr. Anusha Agarwal and  our Club Coordinator Dr. D.K Pandey.

All the Four events were held parallelly in the sports complex area and at the playground. Badminton doubles was held in the badminton court in the sports complex, and Volleyball, Throw Ball and Tug of War Were held in the playground. A Volleyball game was planned in 3 sets of 15 points each, And Throw Ball game also was planned in 3 sets 15 points each, Tug of War game 3 chances, The winner was choose on the basis of best of 3 set.

The winners of the event:

Badminton Doubles Girls

Winner          :Simran Srivastava and Anjali Kumari

Runner Up    :Mansi and Arpita

Badminton Doubles Boys

Winner          :Anshul Taragi and Saksham Sukhija

Runner Up    : Vinay and Ritik Arora

Throw Ball Girls

Winner          : Anjali Verma , Sundari Tomar , Simran Srivastava, Shristy Srivastava and Akshita Grover

Volley Ball  Boys

Winner          : Karan Singh, Nitish Parashar, Anuj Singh , Ankit Kumar, Vipin Yadav, Neeraj Yadav, Kartikey Upadhyay

Tug of War Boys

Winner          : Avinash Chaudhary, Manish Bhati, Sunny Tyagi, Ayush Tyagi, Prince Yadav, Nitish Gupta, Himanshu Gautam.

Tug of War Girls

Winner     : Sundari Tomar, Anjali verma, Priya Kumari , Varnika Gupta, Astha tiwari, Ananya and  Radhika.

The sports activities were mood refreshing as students got some time to take a break from studies and enjoy leisure time to explore their hidden capabilities. The event was well coordinated, and executed. Overall, the event was energising and a great learning experience where students were able to learn team work, coordination and leadership.

The event began with the auspicious lamp lighting ceremony and invocation of Goddess Saraswati. The program commenced with the welcome address of the Director Dr. V.N. Bajpai as he welcomed all the dignitaries and deliberated upon the India’s growing entrepreneurial ecosystem and the role of students in taking the nation ahead through it.

Honorable Chief Guest of the inaugural session Mr.PankajKankar,CTPO - AJIO, Reliance Retail , Former CTO, Lenskart.com emphasised on the power of belief to face failures and importance of Social Entrepreneurship (ESG), Democratisation, AI, GIG economy.

Ms.Sonal Mehta, Sr. Vice President, Resurgent India Ltd as the Guest of Honour briefed on 3 main pillars of startup preparation: JOSH, HOSH, ZID. She also talked about digital transformation for startups; leveraging technology and innovation.

Mr. Shiv Kumar,Sr. Director (IT) / Scientist, Head of Division- Bio-Technology & Central Information Commission as Guest of Honour, spoke about how Innovation, Technology, Startup, and Entrepreneurship are interconnected.

Keynote Speaker Mr.NeelabhPathak, Program Manager, Startup and Incubation Cell-IIT Kanpurmotivated the students to not stop just because of one failure rather keep planning, implementing, and working hard.

The inaugural session was followed by a power pack panel discussion on “Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Competitiveness comprising of:

Sr. Prof. CK Sabharwal, Managing Director ISK Biosciences India Pvt. Ltdas the moderator of the session initiated the discussion by sharing some of his work experiences working with different institutions and ministries. He emphasized on understanding entrepreneurship with a combination of science, art, attitude, hard work, passion, and mindset.

Mr. SantoshSrivastava, founder & CEO KSKT Agromartshared some real-life examples on Entrepreneurship about mind set and attitude. He advised participants for taking a calculated risk, having perseverance and putting blood and sweat into the idea.

Mr. Ravinder PS Bakshi, Chef Entrepreneur & Founder The Art Cullnaire, suggested students not to be scared of failures as to succeed you must fail, fail fast and restart. He suggested students to learn from failures, be humble, be honest and be fast.

Mr. Sacheen Gandhi, Founder & CEO Healthceopia Wellness Pvt Ltd., emphasized upon getting a brand value. His ideas about strong entrepreneurship are to always remain in touch with the network and not to change the track.

Ms. NituMohanka,Founder -WE rise,emphasized on 4 value systems-Goals, Belief System, Purpose and Strategy which are core for any entrepreneur’s success. She also discussed that learning process is continuous and it is important to connect with the purpose behind the solution of the problem.

Mr. Amar deep Bajpai, Founder Webicom Group talked about at never giving up, trying hard and win with regular attempts. He advised students to focus on health by taking the example of Steve Jobs.

The beauty of the summit was evident from the way the audience kept peppering the sessions with different questions to the panellists and the speakers enlightening remarks on the same. The sessions were highly interactive and participants appreciated the ideas delivered by the speakers.To give students a platform to experience realistic and practical dimension of entrepreneurships the summit was then followed by Business Plan competition in the post lunch session.

At the end of the event, Dr. V.N Bajpai presented Plaque to all the honorable speakers as a token of remembrance and gratitude.

The expert for the session was Dr. Neeraj Sanghi, Professor (Finance), I.T.S School of Management.

The main objective of this workshop was to create awareness of stock market investment among the participants of the workshop. Different investment strategies with different classes of shares were discussed with the participants. Dr. Sanghi discussed the importance of investment strategies related to growth stocks, high dividend yield stocks, value buying, cyclical stocks, high and low beta stocks. This workshop also focused on usage of online resources and information to create appropriate investment strategies at appropriate times. He emphasised on long term investing in the stock market.

It was an interactive session as participants asked their queries related to the contents covered during the workshop. 

The volunteers were students of PGDM (2022-24 batch). Day’s focus was to develop creative mind building through fun activity and to teach names of fruits in English to the underprivileged children of Sahibabad area. The student volunteers included Akansha, Rupali, Radhika, Sudhansh & Rohit.

Student volunteers started the class by distributing used news-papers among the children. Children were asked to make something innovative by using the papers. Children made many beautiful items like; Boat, Hand-fan, Aeroplane, decorative paper-items etc. This activity was enjoyed by the children a lot. Winning children were awarded with candies.

The activity ended with the distribution of Cakes & candies among the children.   

Prof. Ashutosh Sharma accompanied and guided the students.

The talk was delivered by Alumnus of PGDM (2013-2015 batch) Ms. Kalpana Singh, Manager (Operations) at Axis Bank. Dr. Timira Shukla, Director- I.T.S School of Management welcomed the guest by presenting a plant sapling.

Ms. Kalpana started the session by sharing her experience during her course of study in PGDM. Further, she shared her journey from campus to corporate. She spoke about the career in Operations as a Operations Manager. During her address, she emphasized on the changing of mindset about the perception about salary package. She said that except being focused about higher salary packages, budding managers should try to be focused about being ethically professional. She highlighted the challenges for operations manager in banking sector.

She also pointed out some important aspects like; Communication, Behaviour, Appearance, Attitude etc. to be prepared for job-interviews. She answered all the queries asked by the students satisfactorily.

At last Dr. D.K. Pandey presented a memento as a token of gratitude to Ms. Kalpana.

The talk was coordinated by Prof. Ashutosh Sharma.

The event was held to recognize the academic and extra-curricular achievements of the students and bid farewell to the outgoing batch. The program began with a ceremonial lamp lighting and Saraswati Vandana.

The event was graced by the presence of Director PR, I.T.S-The Education Group, Sh. Surinder Sood; Director, I.T.S School of Management, Dr. Timira Shukla; Director- Institute of Technology and Science, Dr. V N Bajpai; PGDM Chairperson, Dr. Anusha Agarwal and faculty members.

Sh. Surinder Sood congratulated all the awardees on their achievements and advised the outgoing students to always see themselves as good ambassadors of the Institute and strengthen the relationship with their Alma mater.

Dr. Timira Shukla blessed the students and conveyed her wishes for the future ahead.

The I.T.S Excellence awards were awarded under various categories, including Academic Excellence, Best Leadership, Star Performer, Best Club, Best Club Member, and Highest Placement International of the batch. The event witnessed enthusiastic performances from students of 2022-24 and 2021-23 batches, including solo & group dance, poetry, and surprise games, which kept the audience enthralled.

Mr. Shivam Pandey and Ms. Papiya Dey were crowned as Mr. & Ms. Farewell, while Mr. Utkarsh Sharma & Ms. Mahima Arora bagged the title of Mr. & Ms. Popular respectively.

The event was nostalgic for the outgoing batch as they were leaving the Institute and beginning a new journey. Dr. Anusha Agarwal, Chairperson PGDM, congratulated each one of them.

At the end of the program, the students rocked the dance floor with a specially organized DJ night. The farewell was a grand success, filled with glitz, glamour, and emotions.

The Director ITS School of Management, Prof.( Dr.) Timira Shukla in her inaugural address appreciated  the  seeding of the “Start Up” culture through events like “ The Launch Pad : The Desi Shark Tank”. She also appreciated the enthusiasm of the participating students too. In her words, India is emerging very fast in the world as “Start Up” Hub and the numbers of UNICORNs has already crossed 100. She even hoped, some day one of the participant may emerge as UNICORN in future.

The event witnessed massive enthusiasm and over 10 teams had participated to showcase their business ideas before the judges. The three judges , having their specialized domains, evaluated the “Business Plan”, from Financial viability, Operational excellence and entrepreneurial perspective.  There were three prizes for best three business ideas and one prize for  Judges’ Commendation. The name of the winning teams is as follows:

First Prize : Team Great Mates 

Divyansh Jaiswal (Sec-A),  Abhinav Srivastava (Sec-A) , Poorvi Gupta- ( Sec-A)

Second Prize : Team Zeal

Sundari Tomar ( Sec-A), Aman Kumar Singh (Sec-A) , Abhishek Mishra ( Sec-A)

Third Prize:  Team Money Magnets

Vivek Kesarwani ( Sec-B), Ram Krishna Mishra (Sec-B), Ankit Kumar (Sec-B)

Judges Commendation: Team Evolutionary

Neeraj Yadav (Sec-C), Ali Siddiqui ( Sec-C), Altamash Ahmad ( Sec-C)

All the awards were given to winners, in the presence of PGDM Programme Chairperson- Dr. Anusha Agarwal. The Portfolio holders and core members of the  the Sankriya Club, including President Mr. Amit Kumar Singh,  were also facilitated with  mementos. 

The Global Peace Leadership Conference Indo-Pacific 2023 (GPLC 2023) brought more than 1000 students, ambassadors, and peace builders both virtually and in-person to the Le Meridien and Royal Plaza Hotels, New Delhi, India on April 11-13, 2023. The theme for the conference was Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Vision for Advancing Human Consciousness and Peace. Renowned personalities like Mata Armitanandamayi, Dr. Binny Sareen, Padma Shri Agus Indra, Dr. Marsudi Syuhud, Swami Chidanand Saraswati and Dr. Vivkrant Tomar addressed the gathering with their wisdom of words.

All the eminent speakers and leaders gathered to affirm “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,” a universal ideology that we are one family under God, reflects the aspiration of all people for harmonious and prosperous lives in peace, love, and brotherhood.

It was an enriching experience for the students.

The ceremony was graced by the presence of Dr. Timira Shukla, Director-I.T.S School of Management, Dr. V. N. Bajpai, Director- Institute of Technology & Science and Dr. Anusha Agarwal, PGDM Chairperson.

The commencement of the ceremony was marked by an auspicious lamp lighting ceremony. This was followed by the Welcome Address delivered by the Director. She congratulated the awardees and their parents for this achievement and said that continuous learning is important in all walks of life for professional growth. Dr. Anusha presented an overview of the Awards and motivated the students to put their best efforts in academics for a bright future.

The students were presented with awards in two categories as follows:

1 – Merit Awards

2 – Performance Improvement Award

•        Top 10 position Holders of PGDM (2021-23) Batch Trimester V

•        Top 10 position Holders of PGDM (2022-24) Batch Trimester II

•        Top 11 Performance Improvements Awardees in PGDM (2022-24) Batch Trimester II over Trimester I

•        Top 12 Performance Improvement Awardees in PGDM (2021-23) Batch Trimester V over Trimester IV

All the awardees were appreciated with loud cheers by their batchmates.

The event was coordinated by Dr. Shikha Arora and Dr. Vivek Pachauri.

The workshop was aimed at enhancing the professional skills of the participants in the current hybrid working environment.The workshop consisted of various activities that focused on improving interpersonal skills and collaboration among the participants.

During the workshop, the resource persons emphasized the importance of emotional and social intelligence, a growth mindset, and building skills related to adaptability and resilience. These skills are essential in building effective business relationships, communication, and overall professional effectiveness.

The workshop provided valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of the professional world. The students were encouraged to apply the skills and knowledge gained in the workshop to their future careers, and the event was a great success in preparing them for their professional lives.