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Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow

th 17 Annual Convocation

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JAIPURIA LUCKNOW

SUMMER INTERNSHIP WORKSHOP

ALUMNI MEET AT MUMBAI

CLUB ACTIVITIES

INVITED TALK

One of the most reputed privately owned B-Schools, Jaipuria Lucknow has been accredited as ‘A’ grade institute by NAAC, ranked 4th best private B-Schoolin North India by Outlook-Career 360.

The institute offers four AICTE approved programmes -

Three Year Part Time PGDM and Two Year Full Time

PGDM. In keeping with the Jaipuria philosophy of

education, we deliver a 360 degree experience

encompassing the best in management education,

industry interface, practical experience, state of the art

learning tools, and extracurricular activities.

CONVOCATION-2013

SEVENTEENTH CONVOCATION

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow,

held its Seventeenth Annual Convocation on

May 23, 2013. Shri S.S. Mundra ji,

Chairman and Managing Director of Bank

of Baroda was the honorable Chief Guest on

the occasion. Chairman, Shri Sharad

Jaipuria, Vice Chairman, Shri Shreevats

Jaipuria, Director General, Dr. Pankaj Gupta,

Director of the Institute, Prof. S.R. Musanna,

the esteemed members of the Board of

Governors and the Academic Council of

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow,

were present on this occasion.

(From L) Prof. S.R. Musanna, Director, Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Lucknow; Shri Sharad Jaipuria, Chairman, Board of

Governors, Jaipuria Institute of Management; Shri S.S. Mundra,

Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda; Shri Shreevats

Jaipuria, Vice Chairman, Jaipuria Institute of Management;

Dr. Pankaj Gupta, Director General, Jaipuria Institute of Management

Shri Sharad Jaipuria, Chairman, Board of Governors, Jaipuria Institute

of Management, welcomed the Chief Guest and the distinguished

congregation on the solemn occasion. The Convocation souvenir was

also released on this occasion. Shri Jaipuria, while delivering the

welcome address, highlighted that Jaipuria’s ethos is built around the

‘student’, the individual who yearns for knowledge. He added that the

curriculum and pedagogy followed at Jaipuria make the student a

partner and an active participant in the teaching-learning process. He

noted that India maintains its position as the second fastest growing

economy of the world and further noted that the corporate world looks

at India as the land of opportunities in view of its ever-expanding

market. He advised the management students to understand the

multiple challenges and opportunities in the emerging scenario and

work accordingly to make a mark of success for the organization they

work in and also for their own selves. He pointed out that at a time when

the major countries of the world, such as China, Japan and South Korea

are facing a serious ‘demographic squeeze, India enjoys a remarkable

‘demographic dividend’. Adding that India has more than 60% of its

population in the working age, he stressed that ‘inclusion of people

lying at the bottom of the pyramid’ is an opportunity as well as necessity

for the economic growth of the country. He closed by urging the

students to always work with ‘passion’ and ‘ownership’ in life.

The Chief Guest Shri S.S. Mundra ji, in his address, expressed joy in

being a part of the Convocation ceremony at Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Lucknow. Wishing the young graduates luck on their

journey into the corporate echelons, he emphasized the importance of

keeping a ‘vision’ in their lives. He further emphasized that nowadays

whatever is the area of interest, there is always an opportunity in that

area. According to him the new leadership mantra is "Survival of the

most flexible, mentally, physically and emotionally".

Expounding some home-truths, he said that he has complaints that the

present youth has a very short ‘span-of-attention’. Therefore, he

advised that ‘serious reading’ and ‘internalizing’ could be a substitute

to "channel surfing". He ended up by suggesting the students to look for

a job where they would learn and become a flare and not a fire burn-out.

Dr. Pankaj Gupta, Director General, Jaipuria Institute of Management,

welcoming the graduating students to the 17th Convocation,

emphasized (i) the need for constant upgradation of the curriculum to

keep abreast with the emerging requirements of the business world; (ii)

greater integration of technology to take learning beyond classroom

and campus; and (iii) higher and deeper engagement with students and

faculty to make a big difference for the society. He advised the students

to choose their career on the basis of their ‘ruchi’, ‘yogyata’ and

‘vishwas’ to achieve excellence in life. He highlighted the role of ‘vision’,

‘passion’, ‘ownership’ and ‘dedication’ in making a successful career.

He urged the students to continuously build their KASH (Knowledge,

Attitude, Skills and Habits) balance everyday which will make a big

difference one day. He further urged the students to have a ‘life-long

learning attitude’ in life. Advising the students to always be ‘a

professional’, he wished the students all the best in their professional

endeavors.

Prof. S. R. Musanna, Director, Jaipuria Institute of Management,

Lucknow, presented the progress-report of the Institute and highlighted

the milestones achieved by the Institute during the academic year

2012-2013. He emphasized that success may be the collective goal of

many, but the person himself is the true judge of what success is for

him. He noted that future belongs to those who dream and urged the

students to dare dream impossible dreams and work hard to actualize

them. Highlighting the importance of ‘humility’ and ‘compassion’ in life,

he added that a person is remembered for his character. He concluded

by wishing the graduating class all success.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Shri Shreevats Jaipuria, Vice Chairman,

Jaipuria Institute of Management. He advised the students to do some

of the following things to leave an indelible mark. He advised them to

treat their workplace as ‘an extension of their personality’; to go ‘the

extra mile’ to pursue just one lead they have a glimmering hope of; to

ask ‘the extra questions’ to develop good understanding of things and

to put in ‘the extra hours’ to do things with perfection. Saying that it is

not the end but the beginning of a long and continuous journey, he

wished the students an enriching future.

In all, 268 students successfully completed various programmes of the

Institute this year. The programmes are: 2-year full-time PGDM, 2-year

full-time PGDM (Financial Services), 2-year full-time PGDM (Retail

Management) and 3-year part-time PGDM programmes. The diplomas

were conferred on successful candidates by Shri Sharad Jaipuria,

Chairman, Board of Governors of the Institute.

Bhagwati Prasad Gupta was awarded Chairman’s Gold Medal; Juhi

Gupta was awarded Vice Chairperson’s Silver Medal and Nikhil Singh

was awarded Director’s Bronze Medal in Full-time PGDM Programme.

Bhoomika Agrawal was awarded Chairman’s Gold Medal; and Vaibhav

Jain was awarded Vice Chairperson’s Silver Medal in Full-time PGDM

(Financial Services) Programme. Nitin Tiwari was awarded Chairman’s

Gold Medal in Full-time PGDM (Retail Management) Programme. Isha

Srivastava was awarded Chairman’s Gold Medal in Part-time PGDM

Programme. Certificates of Merit across all Full-Time PGDM

programmes in the areas of Marketing, Finance and Human Resource

were conferred on Bhagwati Prasad Gupta, Vaibhav Jain and Apoorva

Awasthi respectively.

The meritorious students were awarded scholastic medals for their

outstanding performance by the Chief Guest, Shri S.S. Mundra ji. In

addition to various scholastic medals, a trophy to recognize ‘Student of

the Year 2012’ was presented as well for exceptional scholastic

performance in the various two-year full-time PGDM programmes of the

Institute. Bhagwati Prasad Gupta was awarded this trophy.

Bhagwati Prasad Gupta was awarded ‘Student of the Year 2012’ trophy

Name of the Programme

MedalConferred

Name of the Student

Full-time PGDM Programme[2011-2013]

Chairman’s Gold Medal

Bhagwati Prasad Gupta

Vice Chairperson’s Silver Medal

Juhi Gupta

Director’s Bronze Medal

Nikhil Singh

Full-time PGDM (Financial Services) Programme [2011-13]

Chairman’s Gold Medal

Bhoomika Agrawal

Vice Chairperson’s Silver Medal

Vaibhav Jain

Full-time PGDM (Retail Management) Programme [2011-2013]

Chairman’s Gold Medal

Nitin Tiwari

All Full-time PGDM Programmes [2011-2013]

Certificate of Merit- Marketing

Certificate of Merit- Finance

Certificate of Merit- Human Resources

Bhagwati Prasad Gupta

Vaibhav Jain

Apoorva Awasthi

Part-time PGDM Programme[2010-2013]

Chairman’s Gold Medal

Isha Srivastava

MOMENTS

2013CONVOCATION

The Inaugural Session of the Summer Internship Workshop for the

2012-14 batch of students began at the Campus with the lighting of the

lamp and Saraswati Vandana sung by the college choir. The Welcome

Address was delivered by Dr. S.R. Musanna, Director of Jaipuria

Institute of Management, Lucknow. He stressed on the relevance and

purpose of SIP workshop. He underlined the feel of how industry works

and how work is done at this platform that is during training at

respective organizations. Dr. Pankaj Gupta, Director General of Jaipuria

Institute of Management at the very outset announced that the SIP will

be a 2-credit course. He laid stress on the fact that perspectives should

be clear and as a student, one should assume responsibility of

whatever work one is doing and for this having confidence in oneself is

very important. Dr. Dheeraj Misra, Dean of Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Lucknow stated that application of concepts is very

important and true contribution in SIP leads to good results.

The Guest of Honor, Ms. Anushri Mishra, who has worked in various

organizations at different levels, started her interaction with emphasis

on attention and participation, followed by an activity to know about the

traits students observe in their role models and then discussed in detail

the popular ones such as dedication, multi-tasking, open mindedness,

will-power and passion. The session ended with the Vote of Thanks,

proposed by Dr. Kavita Pathak, Associate Dean, Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Lucknow.

Next Session focused on student-expert interaction regarding

expectations of students from corporate for the internship programs.

Mr. Sheeraz Manzar of ICICI BANK; Mr. Alankar Saxena of TATA AIG; Mr.

Kusru Quidwai of IDFC Ltd; Mr. Gautam Iyer of Axis Bank and Mr.

Paritosh Joshi of ICICI Bank interacted with the students.

The session was concluded by Mr. Piyush Sharma who stated that

INTERNSH P WORKSHOP (April 21-23, 2013)

SUMMER

personal objective and knowledge should coincide with organizational

objective. He added that this creates a win-win situation for both.

On April 21, the Morning Session was conducted by Mr. Piyush Sehgal

and Mr. Manik Sharma MD and Co-founders of Eagle Cocoon.

Throughout the program they focused on having guts to speak alone,

appreciate alone and criticize alone, about having compassion in

whatever you do, to use heart and not brain in situations to connect with

people. A few members of the faculty of Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Lucknow conducted workshops on self-skills and

research design.

On April 22, the session was conducted by Mr. V. Krishnamurthy. He

explained how to conduct analyses of various industries, which is

important for the SIP of a student, as it gives an edge to having industry

knowledge. A few members of the faculty of Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Lucknow conducted workshops on data-collection and

report-writing.

The workshop was well received by the participants.

Beginning of Summer Internship Workshop

HEALTH-CARE

Prof (Dr.) Ashish Chandra, Professor and Chairman, Department of

Healthcare Administration, School of Business, University of Houston,

Clear City delivered a lecture for members of the faculty on May 6,

2013. He talked about an amalgamation of healthcare administration

with business studies. Proving his point, Dr. Chandra mentioned how

the healthcare business model changed, particularly in the US, where

the involvement of patients has increased. Substituting the term

‘patients’ with ‘customers’, he described how they have been asking

more questions and are considered partners in the system.

Comparing the US health care system with India, he mentioned the

various lacunae in the latter and advised to inculcate 2 more Ps (patient

and provider) into the existing 7 Ps of marketing (product, price,

promotion, place, people, physical-evidence, and process), as far as

healthcare administration was concerned. The lecture wound up with

some interesting insights into the improvements India can make in its

health care systems.

(May 6, 2013)

An Amalgamation of Healthcare Administration with Business Studies

AN INVITEDTALK

JAIPURIA ALUMNI MEET AT MUMBAI(April 06, 2013)

In an endeavor to stay connected with the alumni, the 3rd MUMBAI

CHAPTER MEET was organized at Ramee Guestline Hotel, Juhu, and

Mumbai. The Meet was conducted with an aim to strengthen the

alumni network. The event began with the Welcome Note by the

Director, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, Prof. S.R.

Mussana, who spoke about the recent achievements of the Institute.

Mr. Manish Arora, Co-ordinator-West Zone, Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Alumni Association spoke about the importance of the

three main stake-holders (The Institute, the present batch of students

and the alumni) in effective utilization of the alumni-potential. He then

invited everyone to share their views.

The Director General, Dr. Pankaj Gupta highlighted the initiatives to be

taken by the Institute. He spoke about the contributions required from

every alumnus and requested everyone to contribute to elevate Jaipuria

Institute of Management among the top three B-schools in the country.

The Talk

He stressed on the necessity of aligning all the Jaipuria Institute of

Management campuses for greater impact and economies of scale.

Some other points of discussion at the event were: (a) The listing of the

Institute on various job portals; (b) Promotion of the Institute on social

media in an organized manner; (c) Understanding the importance of

offline branding; (d) Seeking alumni-help for students’ professional

development; (e) Visiting the campus once a year by the alumni; (f)

Taking guest lectures on important topics; (g) Inviting students from

Jaipur campus and Noida campus of Jaipuria Institute of Management

for the Meet; (h) Alumni to be invited to conduct sector-specific

workshops; (i) Alumni to explore opportunities for live projects in various

functional areas with a view to strengthen Industry-Institute interface

and skill enhancement of the students; (j) Organizing more MDPs and

FDPs and (k) Developing mentor-mentee relationship between the

alumni and the students.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Manisha Seth (Treasurer &

Coordinator, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Alumni Association) and

Mr. Manish Arora, who thanked the alumni for their precious time and

valuable inputs in making the session successful. Overall, the response

was overwhelming as alumni were present from all over the country to

grace the occasion and show that they feel proud of being JAIPURIANS.

Student-members of the alumni association too were present in full

strength to encourage and catch up with the former students.

Dr. Dheeraj Mishra, Dean, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow;

Dr. Kavita Pathak, Associate Dean, Jaipuria Institute of Management,

Lucknow; Dr. R.K Ojha, Chairperson- Student Affairs’ Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Lucknow and student coordinators, Jaipuria Alumni

Association were present on this occasion.

A two-day event was organized at Jaipuria Institute of Management,

Lucknow by the students of IT-Club. The basic aim of organizing this

event was:

• Give hands-on learning experience to the students to use the

management functions in a more practical way i.e.“Planning,

Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Controlling”

• Learn how to effectively plan budget for these management

functions

• Effective event-management skills

• Learn to work in teams and learn to manage emergency situations

• Find out the gaps in training and placement scenario in Lucknow,

related to IT and ITES

• Find out the reason of decreasing level of interest among the

youngsters of the city for exploring opportunities in IT and ITES

IT - CLUB ACTIVITY(April 4-5, 2013)

ALUMNI MEET

Day 1: April 04, 2013

Name of the Event: Programming using Advanced C++

• Three teams out of 10 were invited to participate in the event

• The programming challenge was to be completed in 45 minutes

• All teams were able to complete their tasks within the time-limit

• Winner of the C++ programming was from Shree Ram Swaroop

Memorial College of Engineering and Management

Day 2: April 05, 2013

• Event 1: Presentation based on topics already given to the

participants

Many colleges from across the city participated in the presentation

contest. The presentations were sent to the organizers while they

registered their teams for participants. The best presentation was

selected.

The best presentation was from Goel Institute of Technology and

Management and the best presenter prize was awarded to

Ms. Aakashi. She presented on the topic “Cloud Computing.”

• Event 2: IT Quiz

Ten teams registered for the IT quiz. So a preliminary round was

conducted to select the finalist teams. Each team comprised 4

members.

The finalists were fired 3 rounds of questions ranging from multiple-

choice, audio-visual to rapid fire round.

The winning team was from Goel Institute of Technology and

Management. Team members included Anuj Sahu, Manisha Singh, Roli

Dikshit, Somya Khare.

diversity issues in Korea. Mr. C.V. Singh had successfully turned-around

the company and today TDKML (Tata Daewoo Korea Motors Ltd.) has

acquired the biggest market-share in Korea and has become the

biggest exporter of their trucks, developed jointly with Indian

technology.

Mr. Singh shared with the students his views on operations

management and life-experience from his career with Tata Motors. He

talked about good manufacturing practices (GMP) and total quality

management (TQM) in producing and delivering a quality product to the

customer. He said, “Quality is the responsibility of the workers in the

plant.” He added that the employees can change the fortune of the

company by implementing Six Sigma and TQM in the system. He

stressed that along with TQM mission, the processes need revision and

up-gradation to achieve the best results.

OPERATIONS’ CLUB ACTIVITY: INDUSTRY INTERFACE(April 8, 2013)

The operations’ club conducted an activity for interaction with the

captains of the industry. Mr. Chandra Vir Singh, Ex-Vice President, Tata

Motors Ltd., Lucknow, was the guest for the occasion. Tata Motors Ltd.,

had acquired a sick Korean truck manufacturing company and made a

joint-venture by the name of Tata Daewoo Korea Motors Ltd., Korea. Mr.

C.V. Singh headed this company, with the perspective cross-cultural

Prof. Vinod Kumar Chib with Mr. Chandra Vir Singh, Ex-Vice President, Tata Motors Ltd., Lucknow

CLUB ACTIVITY

Guided by the philosophy “Knowledge grows by sharing” a 2-day Faculty

Development Program (FDP) on “Case Writing and Case Discussion for

enhancing learning in Marketing Classroom” was organized at Jaipuria

Institute of Management, Lucknow during June 28-29, 2013.

The workshop was facilitated by Prof. Himanshu Misra.

The FDP started with discussion on the need and relevance of case

studies in marketing classroom. The discussion focused on various

factors hindering the use of case-studies in classroom. The facilitator

suggested various techniques to overcome various barriers faced.

Next two sessions focused on Case discussion in the classroom, the

participants were provided 4 cases well in advance and they selected

two which they wanted to discuss in the classroom. The facilitator

demonstrated how a case should be approached in classroom, the

preplanning before the class, the learning objectives, structure of

AN FDP ON CASE-WRITING

discussion, instigating discussion and various points to be kept in mind

for effective case discussion in a classroom. The facilitator suggested

various ways in which a case discussion may be done in a classroom

setting.

Two sessions were dedicated to identification and inviting ideas from

the participants about their interest areas and how to go ahead with

writing a case. The participants identified their interest areas and

various issues related to the same were discussed. How to start a case,

listing of learning objectives, structure and flow of case was discussed

in this session.

The last session focused on devising a suitable evaluation technique for

case study. Depending on the way the case study is used in class the

evaluation should be well aligned to ensure learning of the students.

Various evaluation schemes were suggested by the facilitator and the

participants found the session insightful and of immense help.

The program ended with experience sharing and certificate distribution

to the participants. One participant summarized his experience as “This

FDP was very useful for giving an insight into the classroom teaching.

Also how to go for case writing, i.e. planning, flow and evaluation; the

FDP gave a clear insight for writing a case for a fresher like me.”

“It is very important to constantly improve your process, because

problem lies not in people but in process,” said he. He enthused the

students by telling them how good operation-process can help an

organization to manage its capabilities which mainly reside in:

(i) resources; (ii) processes; (iii) values. He highlighted that a well-

planned process has a definite boundary, a customer at the receiving

end and an evaluation measure for the process. Three main evaluation

parameters, according to the reverent speaker are: Quality, Cost and

Delivery Time. He emphasized that the key to success lies in ‘apt

execution of plans’.

He stressed, “Quality does not entail high cost” and further said,

“Evaluate – Measure - Improve cycle is an absolute necessity for

excellence.” He advised that there are no short-cuts in life and therefore

one must always strive hard.

Prof. Vinod Kumar Chib thanked the guest for sparing his valuable time

and honored him with a memento.

The FDP in process

FDP

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME AND AREA MEETINGSMembers of the faculty of Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow

attended an FDP and their Area Meeting programme held at Jaipuria

Institute of Management, Noida, spanning from June 16 to June 22.

Area-meetings were held in the areas of Finance, Marketing, Human

Resource, Information Technology, Operations, Economics and

Business Communication.

During the three-day FDP, members of the four Jaipuria Institute of

Management campuses (Indore, Jaipuria, Noida, Lucknow) were

present. The speakers included Mr. Salish Johan, Chairman, OLPC; Dr.

R.S. Nirjhar, formerly Chairman AICTE, Vice Chancellor, Gautam Buddha

University; Mr. Arun Kumar Jha, Director General, NIESBUD; Mr.

Ratnesh Jha, Business Manager - Asia Pacific at Educomp Solution; Dr.

Harivansh Chaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH; Prof. Devi Singh, Director,

IIM, Lucknow; Dr. David Wittenberg; Mr. Hans Dholakia to name a few.

Experts from academia and industry were also invited in Area Meetings.

A workshop on Research Excellence and publishing in top-tier journals

was conducted by Prof. Kashi Balachandran of New York University,

USA.

A workshop on Academic Leadership and Excellence was conducted by

Mr. Prashant Tripathi, CEO of Advait.

A workshop on Leadership and Mentoring was conducted by Mr. Piyush

Sehgal and Mr. Manik, of Eagles Cocoon.

Two Workshops on Case Method of Teaching & Learning were

conducted by Prof. Padmanabham from Case Research Society of

India.

There was an added attraction also: A specially designed programme

on Art of Living for the members of faculty which was conducted by Mr.

Neeraj Kohli and Ms. Priya Kohli!

Valedictory Session and summing up was done by Dr. Gautam Sinha,

Director of IIM Kashipur.

TRAINING & PLACEMENTREPORTBATCH 2011-13

Out of a total of 240 students, 194 students (81%) were placed by the

end of June. Few processes which are likely to be held shortly, namely

that of City Union Bank, India First Life Insurance, Hawkins, Whirlpool,

Amrit Bottlers, Moghe Media, Channel Play, Online Planet Research,

PHI learning, Budha Education Society, Blue Lotus Communication

etc., would facilitate placement of remaining students.

This year would be remembered for the shadow that the adverse

judgment of Mumbai High court cast on the Placement efforts of the

Institute, as public-sector banks were restrained to recruit from the

campus. Students’ expectations based on past year’s placements had

also undergone a sea-change and they preferred not to join companies

offering modest packages thus losing opportunity coming their way.

19%

81%

Placement Position

Students Placed

To be Placed

In view of their huge employment potential, handsome packages,

excellent career prospects and students’ acceptability, we strategically

focused on BFI sector which hired almost 50% of the students. Axis

Bank, Citi Bank, HDFC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays

Shared Services, Federal Bank, Kotak Mahindra bank, IndusInd Bank

and ICICI Bank are major recruiters from banking space and

recruitment of City Union Bank is in process.

Packages: This year has also been notable for the packages that our

students have deservedly earned. Average package stands at

`3.5 lakhs despite the economic down turn.

This year is remarkable for two reasons: one for the record number of

companies that came to the campus. (i) 152 companies finished the

process till June end. (ii) The great variety and diversity of companies

that came in: from Research & consultancy to hard core marketing,

from HR to IT, from FMCG to financial sector; thus the entire spectrum of

industry was represented. A major breakthrough was consultancy-

majors like KPMG, Ernst & Young, PWC, ONICRA, Ken Research,

Progressive Media, Archelons Consulting etc., recruiting this year.

Another milestone is the FMCG-majors like Colgate Palmolive, Nestle,

Kurlon, Oriental fans, justdial.com and Cadbury, recruiting through us

for the first time.

Of the 242 companies that came calling, an astounding number of 148

are first-timers.

With 152 companies having already

completed their recruitment process and as many as a few processes

are in the pipeline and many more to follow, we are confident of getting

placed all interested students by the time we close our placements.

What makes this year special is:

The sheer numbers:

The Quality of job-profiles:

Functional Area Wise

Sales & Marketing Finance

Sales & Marketing Other

Finance

Research

HR

Operations

2% 2%

34%

41%

15%

6%

Banking, Finance and Insurance sector:

Sector-Wise

Banking Finance & Insurance

Manufacturing

Consulting

Real Estate

FMCG

Retail

Others4%

11%

7%

12%

6%

10%

50%

Like last year, the profiles offered to students have got even better: we

have placed students in top research and consultancy firms (6%), core

finance (15%), sales and marketing finance (34%), sales & marketing

others (41%), HR (2%) and Operations (2%) .

PLACEMENT REPORT

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Presented a paper titled "Process Design

of Healthcare Insurance in National

Insurance Company Limited (India) and

Analysing the Role of TPAs" at an

International conference on Business

Intelligence, Analytics and Knowledge

Management (BIAKM-2013) at IBS,

Hyderabad during April 18-19, 2013.

Also attended a one day workshop on

Business Analytics at IBS Hyderabad held

on April 17, 2013.

Paper Presented/ Workshop Attended

Dr. Abhay Srivastava

Delivered two sessions on 'Motivating

Self and Others' at National Bank Staff

College, Lucknow on April 30, 2013. The

programme was attended by 24 NABARD

officers.

Conducted a couple of sessions on ‘Ethics

i n M a n a g e m e n t f o r C o r p o r a t e

Governance’ on May 9, 2013 for the ITS

E-01 TO E04 level executives as a part of

Preventive Vigilance Workshop organized

by Power Grid.

Sessions Taken

Dr. Manisha Seth

FACULTYACTIVITIES

Conducted two sessions in a workshop (held as part of Summer

Training Programme) for first-year students, organized by Jaipuria

Institute of Management at its Noida and Jaipuria Campuses

between April 6 and April 11, 2013.

Sessions TakenDr. Abhay Kumar Srivastava & Dr. Athar Mahmood

Sessions TakenProf. Anurag Shanker

C o n d u c t e d o n e s e s s i o n ( ‘ B o s s

Management’) at Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Indore campus as part of a

three-day Summer Internship Workshop

which was organized for the first-year

students with a view to facilitate their

summer internship experience on April

16, 2013.

Dr. Shalini Nath Tripathi

Conducted two sessions (‘Developing

Research Design’ and ‘Data Collection

and Analysis’) at Jaipuria Institute of

Management, Indore campus as part of

the three-day Summer Internship

Workshop organized for the first-year

students on April 16, 2013.

Sessions Taken

India is an agrarian country where 58% of the total population is

engaged in farming. When we talk about agriculture, no other country

has standard like India has. India ranks second worldwide in farm

output, largest producer of milk, jute, pulses, rice, wheat, sugarcane,

cotton and groundnuts in the world, as well India is also the second

largest producer of fruits and vegetables. Are we keeping the promise to

the world and to our own farmers? As it is said in Statistics that “Figures

never lie, but liars figure”, exactly this happens when we speak about

the progress, but do not speak about the failures. Figures can help you

once or twice but not always; and this is happening here also. Will we

have to compromise on our agricultural growth? Will our farmers be

forced to lag behind?

A nation where agriculture is the major sector, has seen big disaster.

Though the number of people engaged in this sector is huge, yet it

contributes only 14.6% in the total GDP! Why?

How does every plan laid by the government falls short of the hope:

The plans which are generally brought to help farmers, do not work. The

reasons may be the presence of scams (happening every now and

then), deep-rooted corruption, poor administration, improper

implementation and lack of strategic planning . When it comes to bring

a good plan for farmers, hardly any ideas come though development is

rampant when we talk of IT sector, industries and mushrooming malls.

We call ourselves a democratic society, but do we really live like we

should live in a democracy? Income disparity between the rich and the

poor is also widening every day. Why don’t the so-called well-to-do come

out and fight for the poor people? Instead of helping poor farmers by

giving monetary help to them, a major amount is spent i.e. `600 crore

on various advertisements and campaigns (one of them is 'Bharat

Nirman' campaign). Is this “Bharat Nirmaan”? ‘How much your nation is

developing’ is not the logical question. The question is that ‘in this

process of development are you serving all your countrymen equally?’

I am aware of the importance of focusing more on the industrial sector.

You are called a developed nation only when contribution of Industrial

sector in your nation’s GDP is more, but this does not mean that you

neglect agriculture. That will be a huge loss to the country, its posterity

and above all its economy.

Big promises are made many a time, such as promises to construct

road, to build the railway-tracks, to construct tube-wells, to provide

24-hours’ power supply, to provide clean water supply, to distribute

laptops etc. ! Lal Bahadhur Shastri’s statement-“Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”

has lost its meaning today. Governments have come and are gone, but

their apathy towards the agriculture-sector continues. With more

development in urban sector, the rural sector is lying unnoticed. And the

poor farmer has few choices to make!

Will the agriculture-sector prosper if this goes on? Will the economy

grow unabated? We as a country should learn to work for the growth of

all our countrymen. A chain is of course, as strong as its weakest link!

India still lives in its villages. Only with the support of farmers, we will be

able to dream big which we have named ‘Mission-2020’. Development

should be equal for all!

If a country is not able to serve its people equally, it means development is not happening in the proper sense.

AN INCOMPLETE DEVELOPMENT

Government does lay so many plans for farmers but those plans have

not helped them so far; instead they have been living a life in penury.

Experts have revealed that over 17,500 farmers committed suicide

between 2002 and 2006 – a figure that largely mirrors an upswing of

the trend that started in the early 1990s. According to the National

Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) data from 2009, more than 216, 000

farmers killed themselves since 1997. Adding, figures of 1995, 1996

and 2010, the figure crosses 250,000. According to the latest census,

which was taken for 2011, nationwide, farmers committed suicide at a

rate of 16.3 per 100,000 farmers. This was slightly higher than the 15.7

per 100,000 farmers who had committed suicide per 100,000 in

2001.

When researchers were asked to investigate the issue, many

researchers came up with the following answers: India was

transforming rapidly into a primarily urban, industrial society with

industry as its main source of income; the government and society had

become unconcerned about the condition of the countryside; a

downturn in the urban economy was pushing a large number of

distressed non-farmers to try their hand at cultivation; the farmer was

also caught in a Scissors Crisis: in the absence of any responsible

counseling either from the government or society there were many

farmers who did not know how to survive in the changing economy.

CONTRIBUTION OF PRICIPAL SECTORS IN INDIA’S GDP

Services Industry Agriculture12.0%

10.0%

8.0%

6.0%

4.0%

2.0%

0.0%

FY05

FY06

FY07

FY08

FY09

FY10

FY11

FY12

FY13

f

7.0%

9.5% 9.6%9.3%

6.8%

8.3% 8.4%

6.5%

6.4%

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Farmers Suicides in India, 2012

Total 13754

Andhra Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Karnataka

Rest of the country

Four major cotton growing states form 68% of the suicides

2572, 19%

1172, 8%4349, 32%

1875, 14% 3786, 27%

Saurabh ShuklaJL13PGDM041

www.counterpunch.org/2009/02/12/the-largest-wave-of-suicides-in-history/www.agrariancrisis.in www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Indiawww.google.com www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com

A TRIBUTE

Mr. P.R. ShuklaWith profound grief, we inform the readers that Mr. Pradeep Ranjan Shukla, an employee of

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow left for the heavenly abode on May 06, 2013.

Born on May 20, 1960, he was Master of Arts and had Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and

Mass Communication. He joined Jaipuria Institute of Management on August 16, 2004.

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow will remember him as a

committed and ardent employee. May his soul rest in eternal peace!

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