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| Students of Srusti Academy of Management take part in a skit during Sensation-2012 in Bhubaneswar. Telegraph picture |
In a nostalgic homecoming event, the public administration department of Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, organised its first alumni meet on April 11, coinciding with its annual function, Spandan-2012. Nearly 50 ex-students of the department, some of whom met after a gap of almost a decade, participated in the glittering ceremony. They formed an official alumni society for the overall development of the department. On this occasion, the students of the present post-graduation batches launched the official website of the department and also released the first edition of their annual magazine titled Pulse. This was followed by a cultural programme in which they sang bhajans, patriotic songs and danced to groovy Bollywood and Odia songs. Actor Akash DasNayak attended the event and entertained the audience by delivering dialogues from his latest movie, Shapath, which hit theatres on April 13. He also crooned a couple of Odia film songs. A quiz competition was also organised and the winners won chocolate gift hampers and tickets for Shapath.
Young entrepreneurs
The KIIT School of Management, Bhubaneswar, recently organised eHaat, an event to test the entrepreneurship and marketing skills of the students of the university. Students were divided into groups and each group had to sell a product of its choice at kiosks pitched up on campus. Hundreds of students participated in the event and sold their product, as diverse as household items such as safety pins to artificial jewellery and much more. A food kiosks selling chaats and snacks was also set up. BTech students, Tanmay Kulshrestha, Swati Shekhar and Nikita Roy, who marketed the book The Meth: When A Lie Takes A Life (authored by Tanmay himself), won the ‘Young Entrepreneur Award’ for recording maximum sales. The trio sold 25 books and made Rs 3,700. They received prize money in the form of $50 quarter ounce platinum coin.
Jobs for all
The Asian School of Business Management (ASBM), Bhubaneswar, recorded 100 per cent placements this year, claimed institute officials. In the cluster-wise recruitment drive spread over four months, the graduating batch of 202 students of post-graduate diploma programmes received 222 offers from 39 multinational and blue chip companies, said officials. While the highest salary stood at Rs 5.5 lakh per annum, the average is said to be around Rs 3.65 lakh. Several first time recruiters, in addition to the regular recruiters, participated in the placement process this time. The prominent recruiters were Nestle India, Asian Paints, UCO Bank, HDFC Bank, Allahabad Bank, Gati, Kansai Nerolac Paints, Shoppers Stop, Reliance Retail, Berger Paints, Vodafone Essar Spacetel and ITC among others. Biswajeet Pattanayak, founder director of ASBM, said: “Significantly, the placement process ended with some students having more than one job offer in hand.”
Annual bash
A magnificent kaleidoscope of music, dance and drama summed up Sensation-2012, the annual function of Srusti Academy of Management, Bhubaneswar, on April 7. The students rocked the stage with diverse and entertaining performances, ranging from high-energy folk and modern dance to soulful singing and socially relevant skits. The cultural show was preceded by presentation of awards to meritorious students of the institute, including some who graduated last year. The list of awardees included Priyanka Sinha, Santosh Kumar Barik, Priyadarshan Mallick, Syed Asfak Ali and Sidhartha Sankar Das from MBA, Priti Ranjan Nayak, Sonali Pani and Pranati Panigrahi from MCA. The event was attended by Ravenshaw University vice-chancellor B.C. Tripathy, Bhawan Centre for Communication and Management chairman S.K. Tamotia, actress Meghna Mishra and corporate bigwigs. The institute’s biannual journal, Srusti Management Review was also released on the occasion.
Social work
What better way to usher in the Odia New Year than with a bit of social service? Students of the Dhaneswar Rath Institute of Engineering and Management Studies (Driems), Cuttack, observed Maha Vishub Sankranti or the Odia New Year on April 13 by pitching up a temporary drinking water kiosk near the Tangi bus stand on National Highway 5. It was inaugurated by Ichhabati Rath, the wife of well-known social worker, late Dhaneswar Rath. On the first day, the students, who are also National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers, handed out pana, a traditional summer beverage, to passers-by. NSS programme officer P.N. Dash said the kiosk would be functional till Raja, the three-day festival that celebrates womanhood.
Placement initiative
Twenty students of the Aryan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, got job offers from a Coimbatore-based software company during a two-day campus placement session on April 11 and 12. On the second day, a multinational company headquartered in Chennai conducted an off-campus recruitment drive for final-year students of other local engineering colleges, including the Odisha Engineering College, Modern Institute of Technology and Management in the capital. In another event on April 16, the Rotaract Club of the Aryan Institute organised a blood donation camp in collaboration with the Rotary Club, Bhubaneswar. A total of 130 units of blood were collected on this day.
Advanced training
The civil engineering department of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, is organising a stakeholder meeting and advanced training course under European Commission on the Ceop-Aegis project from April 16 to 20. Experts working under the project have come from France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and China to deliver talks and deliberate on issues related to hydrology and climatology of the Tibetan Plateau. This meet would serve as a platform for Europe and Asia to learn from each other and enhance their knowledge in the area of water resources, remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) satellite-based hydrological analysis with field based information and climate change impact analysis. Civil engineering professor Ramakar Jha is the project coordinator for India. About 40 participants including research scholars from IITs, NITs and other institutions and officers from various government departments and NGO members are attending the workshop, said public relations committee secretary of NIT-Rourkela, R.K. Sinha.
