The 10th MSME Convention was virtually organized by All India Management Association (AIMA). During this convention, our institute Hindustan Institute of Management and Computer Studies, Farah, Mathura got an opportunity to join as an academic partner. In this virtual convention, innovative solutions related to micro small and medium enterprises were discussed. At the beginning of the convention, Honorable Minister of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India, Shri Nitin Gadkari in his address said that today there is a need of an hour to work on new products and new technology. As part of the self-reliance campaign, we saw that during the Corona period, many people started making sanitizers which was much needed. He said today’s research work should be done for the common man. With the advent of technology, we should make products that are low in cost and unmatched in technology without compromising on quality. Today, MSME has the additional responsibility of providing new opportunities in the rural, agricultural and tribal sectors as India is undoubtedly seen as a growing economic country on the world map and the youth here is the backbone of this country. Therefore, there is an urgent need to strengthen the production sector. He extended his best wishes to AIMA for organizing the convention on this subject.
Today, a total of five planners were held in which in-depth discussion on Innovation Readiness, Emerging Opportunities, Innovative Financing, Branding and Digital and Social Media Marketing were discussed. Various eminent speakers of the country participated in this convention. Mr. Harshapati Singhania, Mr. Rakesh Sethi, Mr. J.S. Juneja, Prof. Raj Aggarwal, Mr. Vipin Tyagi, Mr. Pradeep Sharma, Mr. Prahlada Kakkar are some of the prominent names among them. At the conclusion of the program, Prof. Raj Agarwal thanked everyone and this convention was extended to MSME. He said that on the basis of technology transfer and innovation, we can strengthen our GDP.
We had a poster competition organized for the students of our institute. The theme of the poster competition was ‘Skill India’. Students expressed their feelings through a sum of 22 posters. First, second and third prizes were given to the students. During lunch break, a quiz competition was also organized by Dr. Gunjan Bhatnagar (faculty management) with questions based on the functioning of M.S.M.E. and its contribution. The winning students of the quiz were also honored. The Director of the Institute, Dr. Naveen Gupta thanked all the members involved in the convention and appreciated own students for asking such relevant questions to the panelist. He said that our institute likes to have such kind of convention so that our educational activity can also move forward effectively and this proves to help us to enhance better quality in imparting value education.
Hindustan Institute of Management and Computer Studies (HIMCS) have organized orientation program-phase II for their newly admitted MBA and MCA students. It was organized at various stages for the new batch students who are enrolled in these courses. The first phase of this program has already been completed in the month of December 2020, today the second phase was started from 4 January 2021. The program was inaugurated with Saraswati Vandana and dance, lighting the lamp.
On this occasion by Dr. Naveen Gupta Sir (Director-HIMCS) guided the students on the challenges related to mental health problems. He explained that “In this era of competition, we have started paying more attention to the negative aspect of it due to problems in life, negativity, depression etc.” If we work for our own development, then we will be inspired by others rather that we will be jealous of them. So there should be healthy competition. In addition, he said that we should take care of our health, family, society and nature. He also explained in detail the neurotic and psychotic disorder keeping in mind the mental health. He said that education can be made better during this corona period as we are continuously providing value based education online as well as offline. I hope that your 2-year journey in this institute will be beneficial for you all.
Mr. V. K. Sharma Sir (EVP- SGI) addressed the students as well. He praised HIMCS and said that it is not an institute but it is a movement. This is a movement where our students with professional education learn the responsibilities of building their characters are also fulfilled. After its establishment, it has raised a mountain of achievements till date. It is the only institute in Agra – Mathura region which is NAAC Accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council for M.B.A. and M.C.A courses. I wish all my students a bright future. He also defined 16 points of success in detail.
On this occasion, the collective list of placements for the last 23 years was shared by Dr Priya Pandey (Head- T&P ) and Mr Shobhit Kant Sharma informed that our institution has given managers and IT professionals in various different fields for the past years. The placement department of Sharda Group invites reputed companies and ensures their placements.
Mr Naresh Dhingra (Head-PDP) and his team guided the students and told them what improvements are needed within the next 2 years to raise their personalities and how the PDP classes would be beneficial for them. He discussed the role of communication in overall personality development.
At the end, the final year students of MBA and MCA have organized cultural programmes for their juniors for developing cordial relationships with them. Newly admitted students showed their hidden talent in open theatre which was highly commendable.
The first-year students of Hindustan Institute of Management and Computer Studies, Farah, Mathura (HIMCS) walked into their first year of MBA and MCA program. In an effort to make the fresher’s feel welcomed as a part of the HIMCS family, the Talent Hunt programme was organized by the seniors. Seniors shared their experiences with the new batch of students as they spoke about what awaits the new students in the academic year ahead. Here at HIMCS, Talent Hunt Competition is a platform for MBA and MCA newcomers to showcase their hidden talents. A talent hunt is an event in which participants perform the arts of singing, dancing, lip-syncing, acting, playing an instrument, poetry, comedy or other activities to showcase skills.
A slew of performances were held for the new batch of students. These included performances in dance, music, stand-up comedy and oratory. A funny skit and a management quiz were also on the cards. Thus talent hunt is much awaited affair for seniors as well as juniors. This ceremony began with a candle light welcome for juniors where Director of the institute, Dr. Naveen Gupta lightened the lamp. The ceremony saw many dazzling performances by both seniors and juniors alike from energetic dance numbers that made evening even more charming. Students performed on various songs like kab tak chup baithe, kamli kamli, ore piya, zulie zulie, Oh beta Ji etc. Ramp walk rounds were there, where juniors suppressed their feelings and introduced themselves. They answered the Judge’s questions.
Dr. Naveen Gupta openly praised the immense potential of management and computer studies students. He said that today there is a need to express your words vigorously in front of others where communication becomes very important. He said that I have seen many such students who appear to be very influential externally but as soon as they are asked to express their views on a subject, the reality comes out. Therefore, today there is a need to create our own image. We need to strengthen our network so that the students of the new batch can learn from their experiences and could take inspiration from their seniors.
The final results are as follows:
Best Orator- Mugdha Singh
Best Innovator- Kajal Srivastava
Best Intellect- Saurabh Upadhyay
Best Personality- Srishti Chauhan (MBA) and Gaurav Saini (MCA)
Best Performer- Neha Verma and Manav Arora
The Departmental Head-MBA, Dr. Abhilasha Singh, Dr. Riju A. Singh, MCA-Head Shri N. K. Mishra and all the teachers and staff of the institute were present in APJ Kalam Auditorium today. All the people present in the auditorium cheered after seeing the presentation of the first-year aspiring students of the institute. At the same time, the theatrical performances of the final year students were highly appreciated. He captivated everyone with their unique skit. The students performed the melody by the guitar. The amazing talent of the students was enhanced through group dance, group anthem and recitation of poetry together. With the ramp-walk performed by the students was revealing the confidence contained in them, which is essential to strengthen their personality.
Dr. Sheetal Sachdeva, Dr. Gunjan Bhatnagar and Mr. Vivek Pandey were handled the responsibility on behalf of the faculty. From MBA second year Aishwarya Bulani, Rashmi Yadav, Utkarsh Jain, Akshay Pundir, Suraj Chandola, Rishita Jain, Prateek Chawla, Sonali Sonkar, Adarsh Chaudhary were the coordinators for this event and from MCA second year, Prashant Rajawat and Ila Varasi handled this responsibility.
Hardik Jain, a first year student sharing his views said, “Our seniors really put in a lot of time and effort into organizing this talent hunt event and we appreciate them for giving us an insight into their wonderful journey at HIMCS”.
Acknowledging the efforts of the seniors, Mugdha Singh, stated that “In these pandemic times our seniors gave us fresher’s a welcome to the HIMCS family. The love and affection was felt by all of us”.
The weekly meeting of the Team Soldiers of Society was held on 19th February 2021 at Raja Ki Mandi railway station. In the meeting, the Director of Hindustan Institute of Management and Computer Studies, Dr. Naveen Gupta, discussed the changes in the lives of everyone after Covid.
Apart from this, he also talked about how mental and physical health can be cured. Shri Lal Chandji of our institute was awarded the title of Environment Friend and received a prize money of Rs. 1100. Lalchand ji has contributed significantly in making eco-bricks from plastic bottles.
Hindustan Institute Of Management & Computer Studies Farah Mathura organized a one-day training program for Parshads of Agra Region on Meeting Citizens expectations & Image building of Agra. The training programme focused on the leadership skills of councilors, their potential, and their responsibility towards the image building of Agra City. The programme focused on the attitude change towards society and City. The first phase of the training programme consists of three modules i.e. Understanding and fulfilling expectations, Leading and Managing Change, Understanding your personal effectiveness.
The pedagogy used for the training the programme was Participatory, Experience Sharing, Cooperative Learning, Role Playing, Management games.
The resource person was Dr Naveen Gupta, Behavioral Scientist, and Director HIMCS. The exercises used by Dr. Naveen to train the parshads were balloon activity, tennis ball exercise, and DUTA case study to help parshads understand continuous improvement and change is the need of our, teamwork, support and collaboration and full utilization of the potential of each member of the team is very important to give timely and effective results. They also learned the POLCA concept to understand management theory.
The parshads participated actively in the programme. The programme was well appreciated and parshads asked for such programme to be regularly organized in future as well.
The Programme Coordinator was Asst Prof. Mr. Shantanu Kumar Sahu from HIMCS. Dr Abhilasha Singh, Dr Riju A Singh, Dr Sheetal Sachdeva, Dr Gunjan Bhatnagar and Mr Akhilesh Chandra were also attended the session.
The 6th National Leadership Conclave was virtually organized by the All India Management Association (AIMA). Students and Faculty of Hindustan Institute of Management and Computer Studies (HIMCS) joined this conclave as an academic partner. The aforesaid conclave held on 20th and 21st of April, 2021 on the topic “The Big Disruption: Leadership in the Post-Covid World”.
HIMCS organized a quiz competition for students based on the content of this conclave with an award “Most Avid Learner Award”.
The main attraction of conclave was the Honorable Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. He answered the questions and doubts of different participants including students regarding the different measured taken by the Gov. of India while dealing with COVID-19. When one of the participants asked him that “When there is a shortage of Corona- Vaccine in India then Why we are exporting Vaccine?”, he replied that since India is importing raw materials for Corona-Vaccine from other countries so we have to provide them the final product also. Similarly, he commented on the India-China relationship and said “We must have a return to peace and tranquility on the China border”. “Last year, that changed. Without provocation, China brought enormous force to the border. You can’t disrupt peace and tranquility at the border and carry on with the rest of the relationship… If this relationship is to progress, I must have a return to peace and tranquility on the border”. He extended his best wishes to AIMA for organizing the convention on this subject. The conclave was led and co-chaired by Mr. Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, and Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, Hero Enterprise.
Various eminent speakers of the country participated in this conclave. Mr. N Chandrasekaran– (Chairman, Tata Sons), Mr. Harsh Pati Singhania (Chairman & MD, JK Paper), Mr. Ajay Bijli (Chairman & MD, PVR Ltd.), Mr. Alok S Kirloskar (MD, SPP Pumps Ltd.), Mr. C K Ranganathan (Chairman & MD, CavinKare Pvt. Ltd.), Mr. Krishna Ella (Chairman & MD, Bharat Biotech International Ltd.), Mr. Shashi Tharoor (Member of Indian Parliament), Mr. ShicSarin (Director, Institute of Liver and Biliary Science) are some of the prominent names among them.
The Director of the HIMCS, Dr. Naveen Gupta thanked all the members involved in the conclave and appreciated own students for asking such relevant questions to different speakers. He said that learning by experience is the most valuable leaning and our institute is committed to having such kind of conclave in future also, so that our students can gain knowledge from the experiences of other leaders of the national and international market.
The conclave in digital mode was able to reach out to a larger audience and as expected over 3000 participants from across India and the world comprising policymakers, CEOs, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, senior-level managers, and management students joined the Conclave.
The winners of the quiz are :
The first prize is shared by Hardik Jain, Anugya Jain and the second prize goes to Himanshu Sharma. Congratulations to all winners.