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‘B-schools must meet new challenges in WTO regime’ New Delhi, August 5 The post-graduate diplomas in management were presented to over 359 candidates. Of these, 167 were given PG diplomas in Information Technology and Management with specialisation in Electronic Commerce. About 840 students were given profesional diplomas in Marketing Management, HRD, International Business, Financial Management and Operations Management. Certificates were also awarded in the field of Electronic Commerce Information System, Management of Small Business/Industry and Communication Technology Management. Over 80 professional diplomas were given away to students who had enrolled in management programmes in collaboration with the American Management Association. In his welcome address, Maj. Gen. D.N. Khurana, Director-General, AIMA, highlighted the role of professional managers in the development of the country and the society and the contribution of AIMA in quality management education and development. Gen. Khurana further discussed AIMA’s initiative to set up a high-level Strategic Group under the Chairmanship of Mr N K Singh, Member Planning Commission, to study the opportunities for harnessing India’s professional resource base. The objective is to provide remote services to the developed world, which is increasingly facing shortage of professional manpower. Speaking on the occasion, Prof. S.L. Rao, Chairman, Board of Studies-CME, stated that “The major challenge to education, and particularly to management education, is to develop an efficient and quality oriented education system, which fine-tunes itself regularly to meet the changing demands.” He further added, “AIMA being the apex national body for professional management is addressing the quality issues by organising a Business School Directors Conclave annually. AIMA has also begun the independent rating of business schools to enable students and employers to know the quality of management education offered in different institutions”. Presenting the Director’s report, Col. Mohan, Director CME, voiced the need to prepare human resource capable of accepting the challenges of global competitiveness in the new regime of WTO. Delivering the convocation address, Mr A N Haksar, Chairman Emiretus, ITC, Ltd., stated the 10 concepts of management and how they should be put to everyday use. He further exhorted the graduating students to “undertake and discharge their responsibilities in a work arena, which has been transformed by information and communication technologies…’’ He added that AIMA, which was created in 1957 as the national apex body of the management profession with the active support of the government of India and the corporate sector, is today an acknowledged provider of management education. It equips more than 5000 working managers in India and abroad with a vast range of post-graduate level diploma programmes. |
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‘Black
Day’ observed by NSUI New Delhi, August 5 Miss Meenakshi
Natarajan, national president of NSUI, addressed the procession. The NSUI asked the Vice-Chancellor to come out with ‘facts’ and some permanent solution to these problems within 10 days. The NSUI, Delhi state, decided on the procession in order to force the authorities to take some concrete and effective steps. The DUSU president, Neetu
Verma, DUSU Jt. Secretary, Rohit Choudhary, NSUI activists Minakshi Sharma,
Puja, Jitender Sharma, Vinay Solanki, Harsh Choudhary, Amit Kaushik, Ashok
Basoya, Kuntal Krishna and Devinder participated in the protest
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Gurgaon law college deadlock persists Gurgaon, August 5 All efforts by the university today to persuade the students to give up their agitational approach failed. The former director of the college, Dr K.P.S.Mehalwar, who was here allegedly on behalf of the university to defuse the crisis in the college campus failed to persuade the students to return to their classes. According to observers, the university’s move of deputing Dr Mehalwar to pacify the students is amusing as Prof Dhingra had gone on record to say on the first day of the strike that the two former directors of the college were instigating the students against him. Also, Dr Mahalwar himself is enveloped in a controversy following serious charges levelled against him by a lecturer of the college. Thereafter, the lecturer’s service in the college was done away with. The lecturer had made charges in a memorandum to the Vice-Chancellor, Major-General B.S.Suhag (retired), and other authorities of the university. Although Dr Mahalwar has rebutted the charges, the university was yet to formally give a response to the charges. The students went on strike last Friday after they alleged harsh treatment meted out to the students by Prof L.C.Dhingra. Prof Dhingra was asked to quit on the same day in the hope that the situation could be brought under control. However, the students have now taken the stand that Prof Dhingra’s conduct and continuation as director was unrelated to their long standing demands pertaining to the facilities provided in the college. The students stuck to their guns that the Vice-Chancellor will have to come to the college campus to listen to their demands. They refused to formally give their demands to Dr Mahalwar. The students alleged that although the university had promised in the prospectus that it would introduce computer component of the syllabus at the time of admission of the first batch of the students, it had not been done even though admissions have been made for the third batch. According to them, recently 10 computers were purchased but no teacher has been appointed to take the classes. They are also not happy with the present sports facilities provided by the college. Recently, the college had purchased some sports equipment, but they want larger space for sports activities. What is rankling the students is the alleged different fee structure for the three batches of the students admitted by the college. Their demand is that there should be an uniform fee structure. Also, they are not happy with the MDU’s Ordinance relating to the college which specifies that a student has to clear 15 out of 20 papers to be promoted from the 4th to the 5th semester. According to reports,32 students have been held up in the 4th semester
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Toppers of board exams to be honoured Rohtak, August 5 He said hard labour is necessary in the present age of cut-throat competition and there is no substitute for hard work. Mr Dhanpat Singh, Commissioner, Higher Education, said the students who topped in BA, B.Sc and B.Com (final year) examinations, were awarded with a computer today for the first time in the history of the state. He said these computers were sponsored by the MD University and DAV college managing committee. Mr P K Chaudhary, Commissioner and Secretary, Education, said the students of urban areas scoring 75 per cent and above and those hailing from rural areas, scoring 65 per cent and above marks, would be awarded. Mr Ishwar Singh Dalal, principal of the Jat College, was also honoured at the function. |
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