Adding to its academic contributions to the State of Uttarakhand, UPES on Tuesday launched tailor made MBA courses for the benefit of Uttarakhand State employees.
launching the two years MBA programs in “Power Management” and “Infrastructure Management” the Chief Secretary N Ravi Shankar motivated and encouraged the selected candidates from UPCl, UJVNl, PTCUl, UREDA, PWD, Irrigation, RES, Payjal Nigam & Jal Sansthsan to make full use of this opportunity being provided to them by the State Government.
In his address, chief secretary said that, “Management is all about effectiveness & efficiency where what needs to be learnt is what one chooses to do and how one choose to do it.” He appealed to the candidates that since the State Government is sponsoring them for these courses they must gain every penny’s worth which the State Government is investing on them.
Welcoming the selected candidates from various departments Arun Dhand, Director – Govt Relations of UPES said that so far over 3000 working professionals throughout India have benefitted from such programs being offered by UPES through it ‘Centre of Continuing Education’ and approximately 2500 working executives were currently enrolled in various programs.
Addressing the audience Dr SJ Chopra, Chancellor of UPES said that the selected candidates should not hesitate to ask questions and clear their doubts at every stage of these courses even if that meant multiple repetitions. Amit Negi, Secretary PWD, applauded the contemporary curriculum which has been made by UPES for both the programs.
Delivering the Vote of Thanks Dr Raju Ganesh Sunder, Head of CCE in UPES Dehradun mentioned names of all those who were instrumental in ensuring that these programs sees light of the day which included heads of all departments including Umakant Panwar, Secretary, Tourism.
Present on this occasion at the Kandoli Campus of UPES were SN Verma, MD of UJVNl; BCK Mishra, Director (Operations) , UJVNl ; Sharad Krishna, Director( HR), UPCl; SK Chopra, Director (HR) UJVNl; Dr Anil Kumar, HOD, UPES; Maj Gen SPS Narang, Associate Dean, UPES and Dr Nikhil Kulshreshtha, Assistant Dean, UPES apart from others.