The two-day north zone conference on ‘HR Manthan-A Discourse on Social and Organisational Excellence’ organised by Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD), Dehradun chapter concluded with Sanjeev Chopra, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India attending it as chief guest.
SK Biswas, Chairman, ISTD-Dehradun chapter and Director (Personnel), THDC India limited (THDCIl) welcomed Chopra and expressed gratitude towards the National Body of ISTD and the State Government for their support to make this conference successful.
The session started with the subject ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ in which eminent speakers, experts like Professor Vinaysheel Gautam, Ajay Agarwal, Director, Rapid learning System Private limited, Prof BV Babu, and Dheeraj Dholwani, Director B2R Technologies, briefed the participants about the changing business scenario and the requirement of innovation to emerge as a leader.
The subject for the second session of the day was ‘Workplace Spirituality and its Significance in today’s Corporate World’. It was discussed by Y Manohar, Professor Hyderabad Business School, Hyderabad, Dr Gautam from KPMG and Krishan Nath and AC Joshi, AGM(Personnel), THDCIl. Dr Rajeshwari Narendran, National president, ISTD, Dr VK Jain, Dean, College of Engineering, Roorkee, Dr Aditya Gautam, Director, Omkarnanda Institute of Management and Technology, H Wadhwa, AGM(HRD) and Deepak Agarwal, DGM, THDCIl were also present. HR scholars from various institutes attended this conference.
Participants praised the learning environment created by the organisers. It is to be noted that the conference was inaugurated by Uttarakhand Education Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani and later, Dr DK Vamvet, Dr Nanditesh Nilay, Prof Santosh Rangnekar and Prof MS Rau were the key speakers.