The World Homeopathic Development Organisation (WHDO) organised a rally against dreaded cancer in the Capital today. The rally began from Jantar Mantar and concluded at Town Hall, Chandni Chowk.

Hundreds of people, including homeopathy doctors and cancer patients, participated in the rally, holding banners and placards with the message to fight cancer The cancer patients, who participated in the rally, were those who had benefited by the treatment given by the WHDO.

Dr A. M. Mathur, president of the WHDO, said on the occasion that the main objective behind the rally was to create awareness among the masses about the disease and its tested treatment.

Dr Mathur has invented a homeopathic medicine, ‘Rodex’, for the treatment of cancer after 18 years of extensive research. The medicine is capable of correcting the affected bone marrow and is more effective than bone marrow transplantation, he claimed.

The organisation is planning to start a homeopathy medical college in Guragon for which Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, has granted affiliation.

Thakkur, Deputy Director and Commander, Naval Research Board, a division of Defence and Research Development Organisation (DRDO), was the chief guest.

Mr. Thakkur said that the DRDO aimed at equipping the defence services with internationally competitive systems and solutions.

“The organisation’s mission is to encourage and fund basic research in pertinent scientific disciplines,” he said.

Mr. Thakkur’s presentation was followed by discussions of various research topics such as acoustic simulators, ship-building steel and air-cushion vehicles.

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THE GRD Institute of Management conducted campus interviews for its students. Reliance Mutual Funds, Chennai, India Bulls, Coimbatore, Standard Chartered Bank, Sharjah, Citi Financials, Chennai, Kotak Bank, Chennai, Kotak Insurance, New Delhi, Citi Financials, Kottayam, SBI Insurance, Chennai, Kotak Securities, Mumbai Enhanced Solutions, Bangalore and Dell International, Bangalore, were some of the companies that conducted interviews on the campus. Twenty-one students out of 60 were placed.

The learning focus of Persistent Systems makes it an employer of choice for lifetime learners, writes Sudipta Dev.

For almost a decade-and-a-half, Persistent Systems was a typical software product development organisation with a focus on technology and minimal staff requirements. Then came the major push in terms of business turnover, the headcount increased from 500 in 2003-2004 to almost 2,200 within a year. The number is expected to grow to 3,000 by year-end. With this came the challenges of managing people through the transition—attracting, retaining and constantly engaging them in interesting career assignments.

Headquartered in Pune, the company has nine development centres in Asia, Europe and America. With its focus on hardcore technology, the company has always tried to recruit the best talent from the IITs and RECs. While earlier most of the candidates were from education institutes and organisations in Pune, Persistent Systems today, is able to successfully attract talent from Bangalore, Chennai, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and other cities.

The company takes great pride in its wide technology offerings. “We have been able to attract and retain our talent force because of the challenging options offered to them to work on various platforms in the product development space,” says Sangeeta Mahurkar-Rao, Associate Vice-president & Head HR, Persistent Systems. The role of HR changed from a personnel function to a new dimension. HR is now an integral part of all strategy meets in the organisation.

Persistent has a strong learning focus and on any given day 300 people can be trained. They have successfully initiated a certification drive called the ‘U Pass V Pay’ scheme, under which people are encouraged to get certifications from Microsoft, Sun, etc. A notable inclusion is the emphasis on upgrading their project management skills. Persistent has launched the PMI-PMP certification drive. Eight people have got PMI certification this year, while the total till last year is an impressive figure of 47. There is also a customised MBA programme for mid-managers with the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune.

Other learning opportunities include the Project Readiness Programme, behavioural skills and domain skill specialisation, language training, etc. Persistent has 500 hours of content for its e-learning programme, provided by leading international vendor, SkillSoft.

Dr Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, is an IIT alumnus and the company shares a ‘special’ relationship with the institution. One of the highlights of the training programme includes a distant education module with IIT Bombay. The programme comprises post-graduate courses in IT through a simulated classroom environment. Each course is offered through satellite-driven video-broadcast lectures received via VSAT or a leased line.

Those interested in pursuing higher education, for instance an M Tech, are allowed to take a sabbatical. Many of them return to the organisation and the company reimburses a part of the course expenses.
Retaining the workforce in a competitive environment being a real challenge, Persistent understands the need to bring the HR close to the people at the business unit level

“Retaining the workforce in a competitive environment being a real challenge, Persistent understands the need to bring the HR close to the people at the business unit level. One HR representative is consequently made available to the group. The deployment of HR at the BU level integrates it with the organisation. The purpose is to build relationship as there is someone to talk to,” says Mahurkar-Rao.

As an organisation, Persistent has never believed that its relationship with people ends as soon as they leave its fold. And this has resulted in a strong alumni network of which the company is proud of. Many ex-employees, inclu-ding those working in US MNCs have given business to the company. And this probably speaks the best for a work culture that has truly valued and nurtured its workforce.

Pune: President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the Department of Defense to develop a facilitation policy for at least 50 percent of students of the armed forces working in the field of research and development (R & D) to serve for three years.

Kalam said that such markets ahead, it is necessary that students complete high-end courses such as defence institutes Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Defence Advanced Institute of Technology (DIAT).

The president was at the first convocation ceremony of the DIAT on Girinagar, about 15 kilometres to the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Pune, Thursday.

During his 30-minute speech on the theme “Education Research Research ‘, Kalam unfolds not only his vision of a” good education model “promotion of students, in defense of R & D, but also Under the “roadmap” for institutions Like DIAT to follow.

He urged institutions to incorporate into their course of the entire experiment equipment, such as Indian scientists and worked on governance and technological challenges in the framework of projects such as Agni, the fire and aircraft Combat (LCA).

“Students need to find innovative ways to assess progress in the development of their work, rather than simply fighting to non-availability of certain facilities. Power of the scientific team from the defeat of all denials of the nation, “he said.

Kalam identified research and demand, creativity and innovation, use of high technology and the evaluation of the quality and management of user interfaces such services as the five core competencies necessary institutions like DIAT.

He observed that the needs DIAT absorb the spirit of “we can do it”, the students, so that, if put in place by their parents, they have two great qualities: confidence in the conceptions of indigenous capacity and promoting self-reliance in military technology.

“Since 2007, every year at least 10 students should also participate in doctoral programs DIAT for research in various fields of defence, technology demanding,” he said.

Step by step, DIAT must be at least 20 per cent of students directly in higher education, 20 per cent of the DRDO, and 60 percent of the armed forces.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi “contribution to the occupation of the country has been phenomenal. IIT Delhi cream of the crop in the profession, which have at the helm of India and abroad. MS Banga , Chairman, HLL and Yogi Deveshwar, ITC chairman are two names among others. RS Sirohi, director, IIT Delhi spoke of the formation to engineering as a profession Times, and how it will be in the future .
The engineering as a profession
The engineering as a profession has a future very clear, hard-core, in particular engineering, to contribute to the development of the nation. Today India is a nation in the frontier areas of science and technology, because advances in technology, and will continue to do so as long as we are making progress in the various branches of technology .
IIT Delhi role in promoting the cause of education in engineering
IITs are the best in the country, technical institutes and can not be compared with engineering institutes around the world. However, we must ensure that young graduates are enough opportunities in the country, since the bodies were, if it prefers, abroad and not to work in the country.
Many were IITians IAS, and brought a whole new work culture in the Indian bureaucracy, and the same goes for the company. Promotion of themes and Ph Ds IIT Delhi, as part of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Defence Research and Development Organisation labs. In addition, many B-Tech graduates of the IIT Delhi have successful entrepreneurs in the country.
Our success and the quality of engineering education, arising from the fact that the IIT Delhi Alumni Vinod Khosla, which is located offshore, agreed to a contribution of $ 5 million for research and development in ‘IIT Delhi. There are a lot of IIT-D-Alumni throughout the world, at the tip of the situation in many organizations.
Institute of industry interaction
The Faculty of IIT Delhi, in the council and is working on solutions for industry in the short term, in lieu of payment. For the interactions necessary for long-term resource fair. In fact, 20 percent of IIT Delhi, the budget increases, supported by research and consulting businesses. In addition, we have programs in the short term to update the industry professionals.
The company has donated Rs 20 crore Bharti setting up an MBA, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, the management system in the telecommunications industry, under the aegis of Bharti School of Telecommunications Technology and Management .
Plans for the Future
In May, a meeting of the General Assembly, in the framework of the European Union HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, was held at IIT-D. Joshi insisted on the provision of PG education, research and development, work on new technologies in a way to change the size and prosperity, and we want that work in these areas, in the near future. So, we focus on the creation of more qualified Ph Ds and students, as well as research and development with a big boom in the country.
We have programs in 37 of the M-Tech are involved to the level and range of activities. New courses will be put in place, whenever it is necessary, for which the establishment of the necessary infrastructure and the faculty.