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India’s top B-school, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is all set to impart business education to defence officers who have just retired or who are on the verge of retirement The Certificate Course in Business Administration will be held for officers of the Indian armed forces—Army, Air Force and Navy from October, an official statement released in Ahmedabad recently said. "The programme aims at providing management education to officers whether in the short commission or the regular commission. The objective is to help such officers in their rehabilitation in civil life," the statement said. The six-month full-time residential programme has been designed by the institute at the instance of the Directorate-General of Resettlement, Ministry of Defence. The programme is divided into three terms. In the first two terms, the participants will be offered about 17 core courses in economics, marketing, finance, accounting, organisational behaviour, costing etc. All these courses are compulsory. In the last term, participants will be offered elective courses. In addition to classroom teaching, there would be industrial visits and guest lectures. The ministry has already selected 60 participants for the first batch. — IANS Job portal for retd defence personnel To facilitate the welfare of retired defence personnel, the Directorate General of Resettlement (DGR), a body under the Ministry of Defence, recently announced the launch of its revamped official website www.dgrindia.com. The new portal will be available for ex-defence personnel for registering their resumes and searching jobs in the corporate world. The site has been developed and would be maintained by monster.com, a leading private job portal. "The fact that DGR has come forward to utilise the power of the internet to achieve its core objective is testimony to the growing influence internet will have as we move ahead," Sanjay Modi, Vice- President, monsterIndia.com said on the occasion of the launch. "Monster would provide the e-recruitment solutions to DGR through this partnership through a user friendly interface," he added. "It is likely to prove helpful especially to ex-defence personnel in the remote areas who can register on the site anytime and get the information on the latest employment opportunities in the corporate world helping them in resettlement," Modi said. — IANS Pvt colleges asked to drop ‘Indian’, from name The Madhya Pradesh has banned the use of prefixes such as "Indian" and "National" by private educational institutions. "If the names are not changed the recognition of such colleges will be cancelled," commissioner, higher education, has warned. "The government has asked colleges to drop such prefixes within 15 days. "Twentyone institutions are using these prefixes," an official said in Bhopal on Tuesday. Such prefixes were banned by the Central Government long ago. The Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) wrote to the Madhya Pradesh government in April expressing concern about the continued and indiscriminate use of prefixes such as "Indian", "Indian Institute", "National" and "National Institute" by private institutions offering higher and technical education. "It misleads unsuspecting and gullible students and their parents into believing that these institutions enjoy the patronage of Government of India or the government of the State. This is in violation of the Emblems and Names Act, 1950," the ministry wrote. Instructions have also been issued to all heads of government departments, divisional commissioners, district collectors and chief executives of zila panchayats in this regard. — IANS TCS gifts 7 lakh to youngest IITian Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has said that it will give a package of grants worth over Rs 7 lakh to child prodigy S Chandra Sekar, the youngest M-Tech student at IIT, Madras. Handing over a cheque of Rs 3.5 lakh to Sekar in order to pay his tuition fees, TCS Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, S Ramadorai, said recently that the company would hand him the rest of the amount while he does his research activities. "We will give around Rs 2.5 crore in order to lend support to around 2,000 young scientific talents for their education and research. Last year, we spent Rs 1.8 crore to help 1,100 students pursuing their future dreams," he added "The association
between TCS and Sekar also represents a new model for collaboration
to develop R&D talent in the country. His research interests in
the areas of computer network security and cryptography are
synergistic with TCS’ own R&D efforts in these areas,"
Ramadorai said. PTI
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