Book launch at BIT
Prestigious alumni, Nilotpal Dutta visited the campus of BIT Mesra, Ranchi for the launch of his book, 'Everything and Nothing'. Having headed the role of Regional Manager of Wipro Bangalore office, Dutta has been working at Hewlett Packard for 18 years. This is his second venture as an author after his first book, 'In Retrospect' which was based on the life and journey of a small-town boy. Dutta gave an overview of his fictional novel to the enthusiastic audience which included students and heads of department of different branches along with Vice-Chancellor, Dr. S. Konar and Dean Admission and Academic coordination, Professor Sandeep Dutta.
Skilling small land-hold farmers
Bobby Nimbalkar, Executive Vice president, SIMACES Learning LLP (SIILC), a Pune based company engaged in creating a large scale positive impact said that skilling small land-hold farmers using collective expertise and building collective strengths of farming community will strengthen the community’s position within the agriculture value chain and financial growth that would bring back fortune to the agriculture sector in Jharkhand, according to a strategic thinker . Nimbalkar further said, this unified collective power would have greater bargaining skill to break traditional practices and help in adapting to advance business application in Farmer Interest Group or Farmer Produced Organizations (FPO). Such collective group efforts may be the solution to economic struggles of Indian farmers. Jharkhand is the major agricultural state in India with about 80 per cent of the rural population of the state depends on agriculture. Rice is the major food crop of the state, covering 80 per cent of the cropped area.