Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow today announced its fourth six months General Management Programme for Defence officers. This 24 weeks General Management Programme is the fourth in a series of such programmes being organized for Defence officers, and the first at NOIDA campus. The programme is open to both short service commission officers and others. The programme was inaugurated today at the NOIDA campus by the Major General, SG Chatterji, VSM, Director General, Resettlement.

The response to the first three programmes conducted by IIML was a huge success with all 49 officers of the first programme and 60 of the second getting good job offers. The third batch, which is undergoing placements right now, is also witnessing a slew of great offers. This year after applying the selection criteria 59 Defence Officers from all three branches of the Armed forces have been selected for the programme. Out of the 59 Officers, 7 candidates are Lady Officers.

“Management education to defence personnel contributes to providing defence officers a second career choice after retirement. But the larger role in the national interest is to prepare a disciplined and responsible citizen to play important roles in today’s competitive business scenario” say Prof. NK Gupta & Prof. SC Bansal, Program Directors.

The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects Officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these Officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organisations and managing projects. The aim of the programme is to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world’s requirements.

As in the past, the fourth programme is also expected to generate an enthusiastic response from the corporate world and given the intense nature of the programme it is sure to equip the participants with the necessary skill set so very essential to conquer the corporate world.

The objective of the GMP is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. The programme has been designed to provide the defence officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.

The idea is to familiarize the officers with the requisite analytical tools and techniques; and develop a holistic perspective and global mindset to understand issues of an enterprise.

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The announcement National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), demand and pushed aside and non-effort pushed the Union Member of the Planning Commission BN Yugandhar said here Monday.

A fund is created and pooling resources from various systems, such as the National Food for Work, Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana and the region back Grants Fund, said Yugandhar journalists after opening a workshop organized by the Round Table on public expenditure (PERT), Institute of Management Consultants and Madras, India University’s Department of Management Studies, to rethink approaches to the provision of public services.

Prisé as 50 other districts would be chosen for the NREGS (in addition to the 150 covered under the national programme Food for Work Program), he said that the selection of parameters such as GDP per capita agricultural productivity, wages and the population covered Box / Scheduled Tribes. “These parameters are value neutral and acceptable to all States,” he said.

Panchayats village social audit of the money under the regulation.

Earlier, in his address, “said Yugandhar with the introduction of a number of systems, each district was more and more additional funds in an amount of Rs 100 crores of RS. 300 crores per year, without spending plan of the Federal state governments.

He proposed that the resources available with the development of systems constituency Members of Parliament and members of legislatures are used for public financing of elections.

K. Venkataraman, said the chairman of the PERT of the exercise of preparing budgets result would be useful if the system has tainted surrender.

Veterinary science is the discipline which broadly covers the study of animal physiology, treatment and prevention of diseases among animals.

Those trained in the discipline are known as veterinary doctors or vets. However, the function of a veterinary doctor encompasses much more than merely taking care of animal health.

According to dean, College of Veterinary Sciences (CCS), Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, A P Singh, ”A veterinary doctor is trained and oriented to perform diverse activities related to animal disease treatment and prevention; animal husbandry, including animal breed improvement by ’selection breeding’ and artificial insemination; vaccination against economically-important diseases; pet care; poultry management and health care; wildlife conservation; livestock insurance and rural development.”

The new admission policy adopted by the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L), has resulted in high “admission acceptance rate”. In 2007, the last admitted candidate was ranked 85th on the waiting list, but this year the rank has dropped to just 25. The fact assumes importance because IIM-L has increased the number of seats from 270 to 330 this year but, despite that, it has managed to fill seats quite easily compared to last year.

The final selections, as per the admission policy 2008, have been done after taking into account the performance of the candidates right from class X till graduation, Combined Admission Test (CAT) results, group discussion and personal interview (GDPI) and work experience. “The comprehensive evaluation also provided us better candidates to select from,” Prof SKB Nair, chairman admissions, told TOI.

The selection was done in two stages. In the first stage, candidates were assessed on a five-point scale that included CAT 2007 score (30%), class X marks (5%), class XII (5%), graduation marks (5%) and experience profile (5%). The experience profile was rated on the basis of the period of work experience in months. Lowest 0.5 marks were given for 9-11 months work experience and highest five marks were allotted for work experience of 72 months or more.

In the second stage that was also on a five-point scale, candidates were assessed on the basis of their written ability test (10%), group discussion (10%), personal interview (20%), quality of academic qualification (5%) and quality of work experience (5%). Sum of all the 10 components (stage one and two take together) were taken for a final score of the candidates for preparing merit list for the final selections. Of 1586 candidates called for GDPI, 375 had been called exclusively by IIM-L.

The main list declared by GDPI had 734 candidates, including SC/ST, OBC and physically-challenged. Besides, a waiting list of 200 candidates, only for general category, was also declared. As a back up plan, a list of 80 OBC candidates was released after Supreme Court’s OBC quota verdict. GDPI of these 80 OBC candidates were held in Delhi on May 16 and 17. “Since we had more number of candidates who got calls only from IIM-L, the acceptance rate was high,” explained Prof Nair. Classes will start at IIM-L by June 26. However, candidates will be accommodated till June 30, as many change from one IIM to another till the last moment.

Another reason, according to the faculty members, for ‘high acceptance rate’ could be that IIM-L was one of the most affordable among all IIMs. The fee hike for the session 2008-09 in PGP course had been only Rs 50,000 (from Rs 2 lakh per annum to Rs 2.50 lakh). Further, the institute had given need-based scholarships worth Rs 48 lakh to 86 students in the previous session, the highest among all IIMs as per the officials. The scholarship amount may go up even further in the coming session.

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While the government and the sugar barons, they talk about their virtues, professionals in their sweets, the government’s plan of establishing an expert group to work as director of the sugar, appears in the backburner.

It may be determined by the government resolution (GR: no 1720/PK207/25-S) of 16 September 2003, the government cancelled the panel system, whereby staff of sugar factories has been promoted as Director General. A group of trained professionals and candidates have done, based MBA. Applicants were invited to a sign-70 test and 30 marks the entry selected for interview.

Employees of sugar, wanted as Director General was also requested for the entry test and maintenance appointments to come. The candidates were selected for training a year - education and practical experience in a sugar refinery before ordering as director of the sugar. The scheme was the idea of former commissioner Bijay Kumar sugar and aimed at preventing nepotism and the appointment of Yes Men in the greater interest of sugar.

But after the withdrawal of Bijay Kumar, the government seems to have forgotten, on frameworks, despite the fact that the selection process took up to an advanced stage of training. Thus, more than 66 candidates - half of them has been and remains MBAs agents sweets, examinations were by the prestigious Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), under the chairmanship of any other Manoirs, V, father of the revolution White Way back in June 2004. Most nominees, or their existing jobs after receiving letters of selection.

One of the candidates Arun Bhosale, has ME and MBA, recently sent a letter to Shiv Sena MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, drawing his attention to the lack of progress in their separation. Bhosale in his letter pointed out that plans were underway efforts to restore the old system Panel for the designation of the “practice” managers. “It was almost a year and we do not have our appointment. Commissionerate of sugar, neither the State nor the Association of sugar cooperatives in the next edition,” said Bhosale.

When contacted the State Minister Patangrao Kadam of cooperation was not the indictment investigation. “We only recommended to use the teaching skills desirable for a director general. We do not want to go beyond. The board of a plant should be free to appoint a director of their choice,” said Kadam TNN. On the question of whether the plants were asked to choose the 66 selected candidates, “said the minister, there should be a sugar factory.

Speaking to TNN, Gidwani claimed that the selected experts have been ignored because factories wanted “Yes Men”. “Each plant has an average volume of investment of Rs 50 crore and an annual turnover of about Rs 700 crore,” he stressed, adding that qualified specialists were of paramount importance in view the enormous sum of money involved.

Gidwani pointed out that efforts were ignoring the 66 selected candidates were indeed by the Land government. “We have information that a new list of 75 candidates was the state government,” he charged. He said he presented a memorandum to Minister Kadam seeking his urgent intervention, bearing in mind that the sugar was scheduled for an RS 1340 crore package of emergency aid in the next budget.