Manish Porwal, Managing Director, India and South-West, Starcom MediaVest Group Vest, in his papers. Porwal continue its position until December 31, 2007.

When contacted Porwal refused to comment on the position where it next. Pending Nikhil Rangnekar, as general manager and director of the West and India, with effect from 1 December.

An emotional Porwal said: “I have my life at any time on Starcom, has received a lot of love, respect and guidance, and as a person and a professional. It makes me suffer, on the network, and I think that life to move on. ”

Prior to his current role in the Starcom, Porwal was looking for the western region of the Agency. Ravi Kiran, CEO, South Asia-Vest Starcom MediaVest Group, said that spare parts at Starcom Porwal in the world would be known shortly.

“Manish has contributed to what the teams Starcom in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai very effective and very committed customers. He Starcom for our vision of life in India. I want to give the minutes of its important contribution to the organization and wish him all the best in his future career. “Says Kiran.

Porwal is a graduate management Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, is one of the belts transport the fastest in the media industry. He began his career in 1995 in the media planning and buying with FCB-Ulka in Mumbai. Then he joined Everest in New Delhi and the processing of accounts of media and new business acquisitions with the media planning. He then joined Vijay watching television after the broadcast, distribution and sale, then on BBC World as Regional Sales Manager, West and East.

The USA is to establish systems exemption Indian help MBA students if they promise to come home after their course. But in an era of outsourcing, there are too many customers?

For once, Americans are ready to help if we go back home after four or five years. But our own students say they have no intention, in the USA on the front line - especially as better jobs are already in India.

A new regulation of certain leaders U.S. Business Schools, now, the establishment of a “loan forgiveness program” for students from developing countries. This means, actually, if you want to go back home to work your case for an exemption. The idea is apparently the promotion of students who want to return to their country of origin. And students from India, Eastern Europe and China are likely beneficiaries.

But curiously, most MBA students are clearly not enthusiastic. Chirag Talati, a MBA student at the Faculty of Economics, MSU, said: “Very few Indians are able to make that the Ivy League colleges. It is useful, if more higher education the USA offer such opportunities. British institutions Business an offer programs and Australia is a destination cheaper anyway. In short, the USA need such incentives. “East-Naman Vidyarthi IIMA student: “Indians general assault on the USA-for a diploma in medicine and engineering. The proportion of people for the conclusion of management is relatively less. If one considers, Harvard or Stanford, feewaivers get help. But like many Indians accept that? “He said.

Even if these programmes are run by universities abroad, experts are not sure whether all the legal aspects would be covered. Prof. Kiran Joshi SGF said: “In a country like the USA, how do you force a student to come, if all potential purchasers on their data for H1 visas?”

Ami Ravat, a British Chevening scholar agrees: “We are aware that some people are desperate, England or the USA. But there are also students who wish to explore, learn and still at work in India.

Adviser education Jagat Patel seconds this view. “A denial of fees sounds good, but there are many students, who have both money go to family farms and return.”

One option, future leaders propose, it would be the establishment of assistantships, with Prime Minister programs Masters Institute of India. “We have some of the best engineering and management schools. They already offer quality education, but if it is in relation to a paid internship or scholarships, it would be much help,” says Vidyarthi.

A survey on India’s best institutions of higher education has reconfirmed what most already knew: That the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is still, unquestionably, the best B-School in India.

Ironically though, not too long ago, the six IIMs had taken a joint decision to abstain from such ranking surveys, except for a select few international ones conducted by the likes of Business Week and Financial Times. So is IIM-A angry at being declared numero uno, despite abstaining from the competition? “The news did come as a bit of a surprise,” says Indira Parikh, Dean, IIMA, adding that the institute did not divulge any information to the survey team.

But shouldn’t everyone participate in such surveys so that students get a better idea? Professor in the Faculty of Management Studies, MSU, Kiran Joshi says: “Sometimes an institution reaches a level where it doesn’t need to be ranked. It is like trying to rate Shah Rukh Khan or Amitabh Bachchan.” Anup Singh, director, Nirma Institute of Management, though, doesn’t agree. “The survey may not have required active participation from the institutes themselves. However, it is desirable for institutes to participate in such surveys so that information can be disseminated among the student community,” he says.

Most students agree that such surveys sometimes help them make an informed choice. “Nobody really thinks these surveys are completely accurate. Often, undeserving institutes get unexceptionably high rankings. But overall, they give us a general idea regarding resources and placements,” says Ashita Mehta, waiting to crack the CAT next year.

Go to a Wal-Mart in New York and you will probably be intimidated by its size and bandwidth products. Move to the west of Chicago, and the mail is perhaps still fascinate. But over time you are in Los Angeles, you will probably want to shout: “Give me something new!” The day is not far off, if the leap between metros in India are the same … Or will he?

Are we not on the path of a turbulent era, where is your best friend who lives in Bangalore has the same red Kurta, because you both bought the product in the same channel?

“India can never” a culture, “a brand of fashion,” says Kiran Joshi, professor, School of Management Studies, Michigan State University. According to Joshi, khichdi is that India in the field of culture and food industries, he did admit ever, the brand of education and the full normalization.

Atul Tandon, a professor at the Mudra Institute of Communications and Advertising, which specializes in the management of fire, believed that the small fish are increasingly coexist with the giants. “Standardization is foremost in terms of infrastructure, meaning that all channels have air conditioning and other announcements. But to save the store, format and the products are different, there is no question of the uniqueness of losing, “says - T-il.

But we are increasingly aware of the quality, not us? So, instead of the operation at hand, a rather well-packaged and branded atta items from a food chain. “People are more and more branded goods, because the disparity in prices between the brand and unbranded objects went down,” says Rajendra Kalkar, director of a large grocers in Ahmedabad. According to him, the default layout (in the case of branches), is aimed at the convenience of consumers.

“The branches, the world at home,” says Salonee Sheth, Sales Executive a fashion store. Sure, the branches are a threat to small shops, like the former, sales strategies and resources to topple the latter .

But consumers are satisfied with the co-existence of the formula. “It’s a sense of confidence with regard to quality in the large retail chains. On the other hand, I love to pick up things unique specially designed for the site, “said Anu Sharma, a consumer.

Seems even if, as we are moving, globalization alley, we will not leave behind the premises of taste!

Baramati, June 1: The age of the unsung hero is not over yet. Away from media glare, there are several inspired individuals, governments and NGO’s that are e-enabling the have-nots in the country with the tools of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to bridge digital divide was daunting.

Baramati has been the meeting ground for these social entrepreneurs for the last three years. Thus, the third Baramati Initiative on ICT and development calls for some optimism.

Mitra Technologies for example. Run by a group of enterprising MBA from the Institute of Rural Management and Administration (IRMA), Anand Mitra Tech has changed the lives of tribal artisans in Orissa. Though the State Government handicrafts corporation has been doing its bit to sell jewellery and intricate craft by local artisans, the lack of a bigger market-place limited their earnings. In stepped Mitra Tech to create a business-to-business (B2B) portal of craft works using ICT.

Says Mitra Behra of D Tech:”We basically sought to sell the craft work directly to big retailers and branded showrooms using the B2B portal, having already spent distributors who would tuck away all the profits.”Mitra Tech, understandably, wants to network with More than 10000 artists all over the country and open up their craft to the global market for higher gains.

Akshaya, a project started by the Kerala government’s IT department is equally rivetting. The Government has set-up 565 ICT centres, each with five computers, all over the Malappuram district in northern Kerala with the aim of familiarizing at least one person in every family with computers besides providing access to e-content in the relevant regional language.

Kiran GR, representing the IT department, said all the centres are networked together through the internet and will cater to an average of 1000 families. ”The key is to have a critical number of users as well as relevant content to supplement each other. If either element is missing, the whole revenue model will collapse,”he quips.

To this extent, the Government is trying to generate content tailor-made to the requirements of the average Keralite. Being developed by industry experts, content will cover the ground on every industry besides education, career development, agriculture, health, information technology, biotechnology and the law. ”The plan is to set up such centres 9000 all over Kerala. All of them will be created and run by social entrepreneurs,’’said Kiran R. G

Though there are many such stories, the fledgling attempts of 19-year old from Maitreya Doshi Pune to enlist the support of the young in social work using ICT is notable. The representative of Indian Taking IT Global, Canada, Maitreya is part of the international youth caucus is demanding that participation in the age group of 15 to 25 in e-governance. But”the main job is to encourage tech-savvy youths to involve themselves in bridging the digital divide,’’she said. She hopes to kickstart a national campaign in Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta and Pune since August.