The Institute of Management Studies (IMS), Ghaziabad, has collaborated with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China to promote a research programme. Dr Urvashi Makkar, director, IMS Ghaziabad has been nominated as board member of ‘Asian branch of International Association of Social Quality’.
Dr Makkar also talked about her views on ‘Indian Perspective on Environmental Issues’ during the inaugural day of the international conference on ‘Sustainable Development, Environmental Public Participation and Social Quality’ organised at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. During the international conference, a research paper on “Social Quality Forecaster of Quality of life : An Empirical Case of Public Sector in India” was presented jointly by Dr Makkar and Dr Rinku Sanjeev. Delegates from more than 30 countries participated in the conference and more than 105 research papers were presented by the delegates from Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, UK, USA, Thailand, Pakistan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia etc.