A two-day Management Development Programmeme (MDP) was organised at XISS starting from Saturday by the MDP team of the institute supported by the Assistant Director Ranjit Toppo.
The programme was designed by Professor Pinaki Ghosh for the Nodal officers of Power Grid who are responsible for the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Projects of the company. The participants of the programme represented the entire length and breadth of the country ranging from leh and Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir to Chennai in South India and from Guwahati in Assam to Baroda in Gujarat This MDP was considered very important by the participants keeping in mind the New Company Act 2013 -Guidelines on CSR coming into force since April 2014.
The two-day programme was delivered by internal resource persons namely Father Ranjit Pascal Toppo Professor Pinaki Ghosh, Himadri Sinha, and industry experts from ONGC and Jindal Steel and Power. The MDP developed a holistic understanding of the concept and practices in CSR for the participants. It covered the areas of Conceptual Understanding of CSR, Section 135 of the New Company Act 2013, Success stories and cases of CSR approaches and implementation by XISS and the participating companies.
All the participants including the Power Grid Chief Manager (HR)-CSR found the programmeme very useful to them. All the participants expressed their desire to participate in such interventions in the future The Senior level Representative of the company opined that they are looking forward to organising such a programmeme for a longer duration with senior-level Managers as participants.