‘With an aim of developing technologies in the mobile, android, Information Technology Infrastructure library (ITIl) and other computing applications, Tech Mahindra and Sharda University recently conducted a campus connect programme. PK Sharma, head, resource management group, Tech Mahindra informed that this programme will also train the faculty and students for knowledge enrichment in the emerging computing technologies.
Tech Mahindra proposed to launch their Elite programme at Sharda University for the BTech students to bridge industry-academia gap. It is an intensive program of six months duration and addresses advanced application oriented technologies. Experts of Tech Mahindra will connect with faculty as well as students to enhance their technical skills.
It is also proposed to launch a specialised BTech programme at Sharda University, for which the course curriculum will be prepared by the experts from Tech Mahindra. The objective of the programme is to absorb students directly on the projects to reduce training time at company premises.
Vijay Gupta, vice chancellor of Sharda University said: “The technical educational in our country has suffered a long time. Unlike medical field where they teaches medicine and also practices them, engineering field lacks it much. And this is what Tech Mahindra would help us and the students who would undergo this programme would take this in a proper sprit and work hard so that this can lead to further employments of our graduates.”
Sharda University’s campus is a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural platform of experiential learning where students from 47 nationalities and faculty from premier institutions of India and overseas interact with each other. PK Gupta, chancellor, Sharda University added: “We should make all out efforts to make the programme a great success. Sharda University should emerge as a pace setter in leveraging the expertise of the industry in developing technologies, proof of concept of projects and preparing students as per the requirement of the industry.”
Santa fest in school
The Aadyant School ushered in the cheer of Christmas with a grand Christmas carnival, Santa Fest, held recently in the Capital. Festivities began early in the day with an array of activities, a wide range of games stalls like Santa's lucky bag, tumble jumble, lucky seven, feed the penguin and many others. There were lip smacking tasty treats and music added zest and warmth to the chilly winter day. They also enthusiastically got tattoos painted on their hands. The Santa Claus was giving away free gifts to all the children!
The Baby show was a huge success as mothers beamed with pride as their babies won prizes for titles such as active baby, dimple cheeked baby, curly hair baby, etc. The creativity of children who participated in the ‘Young Achievers' creative competitions amazed one and all. It was a day filled with fond memories for the large number of people who had joined in the festivities.
Workshop on econometrics
The University School of Management Studies (USMS), IP University organised one-week workshop on Basic Econometrics at its Dwarka campus. Dr Ajay Chauhan, a well known expert of this subject was the chief guest on the occasion and Prof Sanjiv Mittal, dean of USMS and other faculty members of the school were present on the occasion. Around 25 selected experts from across the country participated in the workshop which was intended to provide the participants with conceptual knowledge of Econometrics and applications of its various techniques in academia and industry.
Galgotias University awarded
The Galgotias University was recently honoured for excellence in academics and placements with DQ-ICT award given by NR Narayana Murthy, ex-chairman, Infosys. Held recently in Bengaluru, Suneel Galgotia, chancellor, Galgotias University, attributed the award to Galgotias University’s pursuit of world-class academic standards and pedagogies, foreign university collaborations, global-level faculty and complete integration with industry. The awards recognised Galgotias’ contribution to knowledge creation through courses in emerging technologies and alliances with industry leaders and leading universities of the world. And for developing high-quality education infrastructure to bridge the skills gap being experienced by industry.
STaRT 2015
The final stage of talent search exam STaRT-2015 organised by Resonance successfully came to an end recently. The result for the final stage will be declared on January 3, 2015. This pan India national event is conducted in two stages and more than 1.85 lakh students appeared in stage-1 across India, out of which only 23,000 students were selected to appear in stage-2 at 60 different centers of Resonance.
Abid Husain, manager, Resonance and chief of coordinator of STaRT-2015, informed that top 100 winning students of all classes (around 800 students) will be invited for the Champions’ Camp, to be conducted from January 16 and 17, 2015. It will be a two-day event in which the expert faculty team of Resonance will educate and guide these students with a focus on establishing foundation for future competitive exams. Along with this, there will also be several fun and engaging activities for the students.
This will be followed by the felicitation function to be organised on Sunday in Kota where prizes worth `1 crore will be rewarded to the winning students.
Students securing All India Rank (AIR) 1 from each Class will be awarded a gold medal and 9 days trip to NASA. AIR 2 rank holder will be awarded silver medal and 7 days Europe (CERN) trip. AIR 3 students will be awarded bronze medal and 6 days Singapore trip. AIR 4 and 5 will win branded laptops, AIR 6 to 10 will win tablet PCs, AIR 11 to 25 students will win digital camera and AIR 26 to 200 will win sports watch. Around 6,000 deserving students will be given scholarship of `5 crores through this exam.
Annual convocation
The IMS Ghaziabad announced its annual convocation of PGDM (2012-14) batch along with an alumni meet to be held in their campus soon. In the event, it is estimated that more than 400 distinguished alumni of PGDM and MCA programme will grace the occasion and interact with the students.
Nitin Agarwal, chairman, IMS Society; Rakesh Chharia, managing trustee, IMS Society; chief guest—Neeru Abrol, CMD, National Fertilizer ltd Noida, presidential speaker—Prof MMP Akhouri, former executive director, NIESBUD will confer the PGDM diplomas to 200 graduates.
National award for excellence by ICSI
In continuance of its commitment to good corporate governance, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) recently conducted 14th ICSI National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance to the best-governed companies in India. The chief guest DV Sadananda Gowda, Union Minister of law and Justice presented the awards for Excellence in Corporate Governance 2014 to the two best companies — Cyient ltd and Power Grid Corporation ltd.
The certificate of recognition were presented to other top five companies including CMC ltd, Dabur India ltd, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation ltd, Persistent Systems ltd and Tata Steel ltd. The ICSI lifetime Achievement award was conferred on S Ramadorai, chairman, National Skill Development Agency and National Development Corporation for translating excellence in corporate governance into reality.
While addressing the gathering, chief guest DV Sadananda Gowda said: “The new verve of ‘less government more governance’ that our nation is phasing through, it’s precisely an indication of what is expected from the corporates in terms of transparency and accountability. Good governance mechanism establish order, pursue social and economic progress and promote welfare of the people. As developing countries grapple with a multitude of socio-economic objectives, standards of governance have come into focus in recent years.”
Meenakshi lekhi, Member of Parliament stressed upon the corporate world to provide good opportunities to the women workforce and bring gender diversity in the corporate world in the true sense. And the inclusion and streamlining of the women workforce to empower the all around development of the country and make India ‘Shreshth Bharat’. CS R Sridharan, president, ICSI said that ICSI being one of the first professional bodies in India to initiate discussion on ‘Corporate Governance’ in the light of Cadbury committee report, took upon itself the task of promoting good governance in corporate India by taking a number of initiatives in this direction.