Leading business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Genpact has roped in professors from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow to give its employees lessons in management skills and improving productivity.

Through electronically enabled interactive sessions, workers at Genpact’s operation hubs in Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Jaipur will learn the finer nuances of management, soft skills and strategic planning from senior professors of the business school.

This is an e-certificate programme in general management (e-CPGM) and there are 119 participants, most of whom have worked for one to three years.

“The objective of this programme is to develop managerial capabilities among people who are at the early stages of their career to enable them to effectively undertake managerial responsibilities,” said Ajay Singh, course director of IIM Lucknow.

The programme is divided into 12 modules. Keeping in mind the requirements of the industry, the modules are designed to create managerial and leadership competence among the professionals. There are 120 hours of e-enabled interactive sessions.

Singh said the programme was being run from IIM Lucknow’s Noida campus, which was being developed as a centre of excellence in the area of executive education.

The India headquartered Genpact operates service delivery centres in India, China, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and the US.

Bhopal, Aug 6: In connection with the drowning of four students, including two from the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, after being swept away in the river chorale in the vicinity by the creation of another joint received last evening burst, if a student of engineering - City drowned in a pond of Mandu in the neighbouring district Dhar.

Gwalior-resident Suyash Gupta, a student of the Institute of Technology and Engineering at the University of Ahilya Devi, drowned while swimming in a pond, the place went historic Mandu where he worked with his friends to celebrate friendship 6 days. One of his friends was saved, and whose admission to hospital Dhar.

Two IIM-I-students, including a girl, were torn off and choral banks of the river, 20 km from here, Saturday, and their corpses were yesterday. Two students of private higher education a tooth were also drowned in the river, Aug. 2.

Three children drown

Three children drowned in a pond near the village circle Jahed Sagar, the police said today. Bina block Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP), Ajay Singh said that the deceased of the incident yesterday, were considered Bamhori Arjun Anil villagers, Kaptan and Rahul. All the victims were about eight to nine years. Your body has been caught this morning, the police.