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India needs more nuke professionals

Despite India enjoying one of the largest human resource pool of experts in nuclear science and technologies, it needs more professionals in the sector in immediate future due to expanding nuclear power programme, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said recently. Indian scientists had made significant contributions in the areas of pressurised heavy water reactors, fast breeder reactors and thorium utilisation technologies, he said while delivering the fifth annual convocation address at the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka (NITK) in Mangalore. Kakodkar said in view of the increasing demand for professionals in the nuclear sector, the DAE has enhanced the budget several fold in the last few years to facilitate coordinated research. — PTI

Concerned over the shortage of actuaries, the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) has started a two-year course for training actuaries in collaboration with the Andhra Pradesh Government.

"Government of Andhra Pradesh and IRDA have set up Institute of Insurance and Risk Management(IIRM) in Hyderabad that offers a two-year course in actuaries to aspiring graduates," IRDA's director-general D.V.S Sastry said recently during a seminar on Corporate governance in Mumbai.

"There is a shortage of actuaries in insurance sector and IRDA is trying to sensitise the issue," Sastry said. — PTI

IIM-L course on CSR

IN the past two decades, the business climate has radically changed and consequently, the rules of the competitive race are being rewritten.

In order to gain a competitive edge, firms need to adopt socially responsible strategies and deepen relationships with stakeholders. Keeping this in mind, the IIM-Lucknow is organizing a course on Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainable Business December 18-20, 2007. — TNS