40 PGDM (2022-24) Batch students along with management faculty members Dr. Rajeev Johari and Dr. Indraneel Mandal attend the event.

The seminar focused on Investor Awareness and Protection. The programme started at 10.00 AM with lamp lighting and welcome address by Dr Mridul Saggar, IEPF Chair Professor, NCAER. The dignitaries of the dias were Ms. Anita Shah Kella , CEO of IEPFA, M R Shrikant from RBI, Mr. Giriraj Prasad Garg (SEBI), Mr. KPS Malhotra (IFSO), Mr. Jayant Kumar Dash (RBI), Mr. Rakesh Jain (IEPFA), Mr. Tushar Anand (IEPFA), Mr. Mridul (NCAER).

The house was then thrown open for the Q&A session. Some very pertinent questions were put up by the students present, which were then answered with care and patience by the panelists, thus adding substantially to the. All in all, it turned out to be the perfect conclusion to the day’s deliberations. The entire seminar was well conducted and the message conveyed was very specific, which was greatly appreciated. 

The volunteers included students of PGDM 2021-23 batch. The focus was on educating the underprivileged sections of society. The student volunteers included Shobhit, Aryan, Akash, Vaibhav, Vipin, Vibhu, Rima, Priyanshi, Surendra, Manvi.

 The following lessons were taught to the children:

(i). Identification & Names of colors in English,

(ii). Mathematical tables from 2 to 5 and,

(iii). Concept of using less than and greater than signs between two numbers.

The children sang English & Hindi Poems and participated with enthusiasm. Mr. Vaibhav Pratap Singh (PGDM Batch 2021-23) celebrated his birthday with these underprivileged children by distributing Frooti. The session ended with the distribution of cream-biscuits among the children. Prof. Ashutosh Sharma accompanied and guided the student volunteers.

The aim of excursion tour was to empower students with new means of learning i.e., by engaging in team activities, storming with different viewpoints of team members, handling situational problems, crisis management, time management and gaining hands on experience.

The morning journey to Manesar resort was full of energy and excitement. Cool breeze and the greenery around sent a tingling sensation down the spine as the students reached the resort.After a warm welcome, refreshments were served. The faculty members opened up the surprise package of different management games & team-building activities. The real enjoyment was the high energy and enthusiasm of every student of batch as everybody participated in water relay game, tug of war, passing the ball etc. The scores and judgement were given by faculties.

After the eventful session, the students were served with lip smacking, sumptuous lunch.In the post lunch session, the students participated in adventure activities like camel riding, horse riding, climbing and sports activities like billiards, lawn tennis, table tennis, cricket, volley ball, chess etc. students. These activities helped them to overcome their fears and bond with each other This was followed by evening tea and snacks.

This outbound excursion tour helped the students learn the importance of working in teams, collaborating and learning from one another. The different activities stimulated the physical and emotional quotient of the students. The faculty members who accompanied the students included Dr Anusha Agarwal, Dr D K Pandey, Dr Vivek Pachauri,   Prof. Yachna Malhotra, Dr Mayank Sharma and Prof. Ashutosh Sharma.

The Program commenced with he gracious presence of Mr. Surinder Sood, Director-PR I.T.S-The Education Group, Dr. Timira Shukla, Director I.T.S School of Management, Dr. V.N. Bajpai, Director I.T.S Ghaziabad, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director IT I.T.S Ghaziabad,, Dr. Anusha Agarwal, Chairperson-PGDM Programme, faculty members and students of PGDM Program.

The event commenced with the auspicious lamp lighting ceremony to invoke blessings of Maa Saraswati., Mr. Surinder Sood addressed the gathering with his words of wisdom and enlightened the gathering with the importance of enjoyment in life and education. Mr. Sood emphasized on learning for wisdom and employability. Dr. Timira Shukla, in her address to the students, discussed the importance of showcasing the talent through these platforms. She urged he students to participate in these academic activities for their holistic development. The event witnessed energetic and enthralling performances by students. It included group dance, poetry recitation, solo singing, and solo dance which left the audience mesmerized. The rigorous process was adopted to select Mr. & Ms. fresher from the nominees including introduction round, talent hunt round and question round.

Towards the end, the jury members announced the names of Mr. & Ms. Fresher 2022. Mr. Abhishek Kumar and Ms. Rishika Pandey from PGDM 2022-24 Batch were crowned Mr. Fresher and Ms. Fresher respectively.

This was followed by a sumptuous feast.

The programme comprised of four sessions. The dignitaries for the first session were Session Chair, Shiv Siddhant Narayan Kaul, Managing Director, Nicco Engineering Services Limited & Honorary Consul General, The Republic of Korea in Kolkata); Session Speaker, K. Radhakrishnan, Former Chairman, Space Commission/ Secretary, Department of Space and Keynote Speaker Ms. Rekha Sethi, Director General, All India Management Association. The session was initiated by Session Speaker, K Radhakrishnan who spoke about his career and life experiences and how he grabbed opportunities to become successful and about ISRO bringing different career opportunities and various options for career growth. He also gave an insight about the evolution in the private sector in India and also talked about ESG (Environment Sustainability and Governance). Then, taking the session ahead Ms. Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA spoke about the importance of technology in today’s era and the increase in rate of change in trend. She also spoke about technology being the key driver of the economic growth of the country.

The dignitaries for second session were Session Chair, Mr. Pranjal Sharma (Author Economic Analyst & Columnist), Session Speaker Shiv Shivakumar (Group Executive President, Strategy and Business Development Aditya Birla Group & Past President All India Management Association). They initiated the session by sharing their life experiences working on various projects and how context and feedback is important while working on anything and everything. They also mentioned that work-life balance is both internal as well as external.

The dignitaries for the third session were Session Chair, Shrinivas Dempo (Chairman Dempo Group of Companies & Senior Vice President All India Management Association) Session Speaker, Shereen Bhan (Managing Editor CNBC-TV18). The session was taken ahead by Shereen Bhan, session speaker, who gave an understanding about will power being nothing without the willingness to do and how to deal with a situation when you draw the line of limitation in endless independence. She also briefed that preparation is always important before demonstration of a task and the necessity of leadership.

The dignitaries for the fourth session were Session Chair, Nikhil Sawhney (Vice Chairman and Managing Director Triveni Turbine Limited, Director, Triveni Engineering and Industries Limited & Vice President All India Management Association) Session Speaker, Sanjiv Mehta (CEO and Managing Director Hindustan Unilever Limited). The session speaker talked about the transformation from knowledge confinement to its widespread availability. They discussed the importance of cloud server in today’s era and how duplicacy and replicacy is avoided through intelligent security.

Overall, the session was very informative and definitely food for thought. 

The session was initiated by the opening remarks of Mr. Amit Sinha Roy, Vice President, Global Head of Marketing & Communications, Tata Communications Ltd. Special Address was given by Mr. Aman Sharma, Secretary, Postal Services Board Department, Ministry of Communications, Government of India and Mr. G. Narendra Nath, Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat. Launch of the “CIO Awards” was executed by the dignitaries on the dais and the closing remarks were made by Col Suhail Zaidi (Retd), Head- CII Centre for Digital Transformation.

The session addressed the scenario for customers (both B2C and B2B) with people adjusting to the hybrid world to drive more efficiency, productivity and access to newer markets across the borders. They also discussed on how our future strategies should be shaped to deal with this Hybrid Reality.

Further the session was divided into two panel discussions. The first panel discussed “Changing Governance Dynamic in the Hybrid Reality”. The Session witnessed industry leaders sharing their perspective on the subject and deliberated upon the transformation required for the governance dynamics in the Hybrid Reality. It was moderated by Mr. Deepak Talwar, National Security Officer, Microsoft India Ltd and panelists were Mr. Sunil David, Advisor and Consultant, IOT & AI Startups;Mr. Ankur Goyal, Client Director, IBM India Pvt Ltd;  Mr. Rajesh Gupta, VP, Product Marketing, ICS Tata Tele Services;  Mr. Kapil Mehrotra, Chief Technology Officer, National Collateral Management Services Limited and Mr. Sonic Garg, Regional Sales Leader, Hewlett Packard Enterprises.

The second panel was about “Hybrid Cloud Adoption Trends and Challenges”. The hybrid cloud reflects enterprise IT’s overall shift from a centralized to a distributed model. Session was moderated by Mr. Sumit Monga, Head Government Relations, Lenovo. The panelist for this session were Mr. Sounak Biswas, Head, Technical Strategy Dell Technologies; Dr.Vibhu Agarwal, Senior Director Data Science, Medidata andMr. Anand Sinha, Global Head IT and Digital BirlaSoft.

The session concluded with discussion on Resilient Supply Chain and “WINNNOVATE- Win + Innovate”. It was an informative session and the participants enjoyed the deliberations.

UFlex is India’s largest end-to-end flexible packaging materials and Solutions Company that manufactures a wide variety of flexible packaging films like BOPP films, BOPET films, CPP film, Metalized films, Alox coated films, Specialty films, and PCR grade PET films Asclepius, for varied industry sectors across the world. The objective to organize this visit was to provide students an exposure to the Operations management and production process of the company. UFLEX Ltd. produces environment friendly and recyclable packaging products and recycles their waste in the production process to make the final product.

Students were taken to the conference room where Mr. Sanjeev Gupta (Senior Vice President ) and Mr. Tushar Kumar(Head HR) addressed the audience. They threw some light upon the history of the company, its major products and USP of the products. Discussion was very interactive where participants asked queries about the company and their product.

Later on Mr.Sudhanshu Gupta (Manufacturing dept.) explained the whole process of manufacturing the film in the plant step by step. Participants were taken inside the plant to understand more clearly about the process and how it is carried out. At the end of the visit refreshments were given to the participants .

The session was full of knowledge and learning where participants got the in depth insight of how actually film are being manufactured.

UFlex is India’s largest end-to-end flexible packaging materials and Solutions Company that manufactures a wide variety of flexible packaging films like BOPP films, BOPET films, CPP film, Metalized films, Alox coated films, Specialty films, and PCR grade PET films Asclepius, for varied industry sectors across the world. The objective to organize this visit was to provide students an exposure to the Operations management and production process of the company. UFLEX Ltd. produces environment friendly and recyclable packaging products and recycles their waste in the production process to make the final product.

A small interaction session was organized by the company where Mr. Sanjiv Gupta, Senior Vice President, Operations, UFLEX;Mr. Tushar Kumar, AGM, HR and Kritika Sharda, Asst. Manager, HR gave a brief presentation about the company, its operations in India and abroad and the Production Process. They also handled the students’ queries to their satisfaction. It was followed by the plant visit where the students got the chance to see the line production of the flexible packaging films.

It was a great learning experience for the students and they thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality extended by the UFLEX team throughout the visit.

The volunteers for the day were students of PG Management including Anuj, Akash, Sourav, Sakshi, Mahima, Divyanshi, Priyanshi, Shobhit, Surendra, Abhijeet, Awnish, Anurag, Radha Krishna, Puneet, Animesh, Nargis, Ayushi, Poorvi, Simran, Akansha, Soumya Rahul, Kartik, Rupali.

Volunteers distributed hand-flags among the children. Children participated in the celebration enthusiastically. They recited poems and performed on various patriotic songs. Performers were awarded with Tricolor badges. Also our students made the children aware about the importance of the occasion and shared with them the struggle of the freedom fighters to bring this Independence.

in the campus with flag Hoisting, joined by Dr. R. P. Chadha, our Honorable Chairman of I.T.S – The Education Group followed by beautiful cultural performances, poetry etc. by our students to celebrate 76th Independence Day.

On this occasion, students, faculty & staff members of the Institute were present and greeted each other.