HR Leadership Virtual Conference was organised by Rabindranath Tagore University.
The theme of the conference was "Future Prospects for the Youth in the Agricultural Sector", on which HR Head of the country's reputed institutions spoke and guided the students. In the expert panel, Anil Kumar Khurchania, Dean of Agriculture Faculty of Rabindranath Tagore University, Sudhanshu Mishra, Chief HR Officer, Tata Coffee, Rohit Sharma, HR Head, Bayer, HR, Admin and Executive Director of Training Ramesh Kumar, Mahindra Ford Senior General Manager and Head HR Abhimanyu Sen were involved. In the conference, experts discussed the impact of lockdown and emerging new career prospects due to technology in the field of agriculture.
Anil Kumar Khurchania, Dean of Agriculture Faculty of Rabindranath Tagore University, said that during the lockdown many unique initiatives were taken for the students, ranging from online classes to placements to the students by Rabindranath Tagore University.
Sudhanshu Mishra, Chief HR Officer, Tata Coffee, said that the reason for the lockdown was the difficulty of migrant workers moving back to their homes leading to a shortage of workers. In such a short time, educating the local workforce and working with all the lockdown restrictions.
IFFCO Tokio's HR, Admin and Executive Director of Training Ramesh Kumar said, "Our work was under essential services, due to which continuous work continued, as well as hiring of people." Taking technical assistance in the work, efforts are also being made to make many of the techniques based.
Mahindra Ford Senior General Manager and Head HR Abhimanyu Sen said that the automotive sector was negatively affected even before Kovid, so many efforts were made by the company to help employees during this period.
The conference discussed the low level of trend in agricultural startups and youth in the agriculture sector, with experts sharing a range of measures. During this time more than 150 students and people working in the agriculture sector joined the conference.