The objective of this event was to engage government and the private sector in exchanging views and deliberate upon achieving India.

i-Bharat 2017 was organized by FICCI in association with Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India. With the theme "ICT elucidation for Unsolved and Unserved", the prime focus of the event was to promote governance through ICT, and further utilizing ICT solutions as the tools for India’s Socio-Economic Transformation.

i-Bharat has already established itself as the leading platform for the digital community to harness the power of ICTs, exchange ideas, knowledge and experience, discuss international best practices, understand investment patterns and opportunities etc.

It was overall good learning experience for faculties.

The conclave was focused towards the government’s objective to drive the right to education being implemented as a fundamental right. The conclave was packed with the sessions delivered by the eminent speakers from the Academia & Industry.

The welcome address was delivered by Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director (Publishing), India Today Group.

The Inaugural address was delivered by Mr Satyapal Singh, Mister of State, HRD. Mr Singh touched upon Child education and discussed about importance of it for transforming a human being into resource for country. He has also added “Every individual needs to be good human being. It does not matter how much he is successful in his professional career?”. The minister said, "While education standards have been maintained in the southern states of our country, the situation remains grim in the northern part of India. It poses a challenge to the government and the quality needs to be upgraded.

The minister said that the government is looking forward to a 'New India' free of four Cs - corruption, crime, casteism and communalism - by imparting affordable and accessible education to all.

Session-2 was Panel Discussion on the theme of “Mining of Ancient India”. In this session, renown authors Amish Tripathi, Anand Neelakantan, Makarand Paranjape, Poet & Professor JNU were present and Abhijit Majumdar, Managing editor, Mail Today was moderator of this session.

Session 3 was Panel Discussion on theme “Higher Education crunch: Imparting skills and employability”. In this discussion, Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi, Dr. Balvinder Shukla, Vice Chancellor, Amity University Noida, Dr. C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Dr. S.K. Salwan, Vice Chancellor, Apeejay Stya University and Prof. Aditya Shastri, Vice Chancellor, Banasthali Vidyapeeth were present and they have shared their knowledge on theme of session.

Session 4 was Panel Discussion on theme “Focus on comprehensive child development in the age of technology”. In this session, Vanita Sehgal, Principal, DPS R.K. Puram, Rekha Krishnan, Principal, Vasant Valley School, Ameeta Wattal, Principal, Springdales School and Priyanka Mehta, Principal, Amity International School, Mayur Vihar were present and grace the occasion.This session was Moderated by Aditya Berlia, Co-Founder & Pro-Chancellor of the Apeejay Stya University; Member of the Management Board of the Apeejay Stya & Svran Group.

Valedictory Session was addressed by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ministry of Science and Technology & Ministry of Earth Sciences.

The conference was divided in four technical session, and the session on Behavioural Finance was chaired by Dr. Timira Shukla, Professor and Dean at JSB Indirapuram and Dr. Amit Sinha, Associate Professor at Amity Lucknow.The conference was a good learning experience in which participants share their views on the subject.

The conclave was organized byAll India Management Association (AIMA). This two day conclave was divided into multiple sessions which covered different dimensions related to the idea of reimagining India’s future.

Session 1: Inaugural

Panelists-

• Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal (President, AIMA and Chairman, The Hero Enterprise)
• RekhaSethi (Director General, All India Management Association)
• SudhirJalan (Co-Chairman, Diamond Jubilee NMC andChairman, Neo Foods Pvt Ltd)
• Amitabh Kant (CEO, NITI AayogGovernment of India)
• Babul Supriyo (Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public EnterprisesGovernment of India)
• T V Mohandas Pai (Senior Vice President, AIMA andChairman, Manipal Global Education Services)

The discussion in the session focused on identifying challenges India is facing and building possible solutions for them.

Session 2: AIMA Wants to Know

Speakers-

• ArnabGoswami (Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Republic TV)
• T V Mohandas Pai (Senior Vice President, AIMA and Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services)

This session focused on how news media can shape Indian democracy, social behaviour and public institutions. Also, how can the media fight the menace of fake news and ensure objectivity.

Session 3: Reimagining India

Speakers –

• Sanjay Kirloskar (Chairman & Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd
• Rajiv Kumar (Vice Chairman, NITI AayogGovernment of India

This session detailedon what can the government, politicians and the citizens do to make India a model of development and how can India’s economy be made more equitable for all groups, regionsand genders?

Session 4: The Money Spinner

Speakers –

• SupriyaShrinate (Chief Editor - News, ET Now)
• RaamdeoAgrawal (Jt. Managing Director, MotilalOswal Financial Services Ltd)
• AkhilBansal (Deputy CEO, KPMG in India)

This session analysed the trajectory Indian economy and stockmarkets are likely to have over the next 3-5 years. The speakers also concentrated their discussion on identifying sectors which are likely to be the greatest value creators and destroyersbecause of technological changes.

Session 5-Reimagining Reality: Future of Indian Cinema

Speakers –

• Preetha Reddy (Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospital Enterprise Ltd)
• RakeyshOmprakashMehra (Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter)

In this session the speakers discussed on how globalization is changing the making and marketing of Indian films and how can filmmakers achieve a balance between technology and art?

Session 6:Aap Ki Adalat

• Baba Ramdev (Yoga Guru and Founder, The Patanjali Group of Institutions)
• Rajat Sharma (Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India TV)

This session focused on how a new company like Patanjali has been able to achieve so much in such a little span of time and what lessons can other companies draw form its experience.

Session 7- Building the Future Now: Creating Transformative Infrastructure

Speakers –

• NitinGadkari (Minister of Road Transport & Highways; Shipping andWater Resources, River Development and Ganga RejuvenationGovernment of India
• Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal (President, AIMA and Chairman, The Hero Enterprise)

The session focused on measures to make up India’s mobility deficit quickly to rev up its economic growth and what can be done to make the clean transportation available across the country?

Day 2 - Session 8- Disruptive HR: Managing Talent in Times of Great Change

Speakers-

• PranavPai (Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer, 3one4 Capital)
• KiranMenon (Co-Founder & CEO, Tydy)
• Jayant Prasad Paleti (Co-Founder, Darwinbox)
• RishabhKaul (Co-Founder and Head of Demand Marketing, Belong)

The speakers focused on the HR start-ups redefining talent management and discussed on the new HR tools and strategies for modern organizations.

Session 9: Digital India: Creating A Trillion Dollar Digital Economy

Speakers –

• Ravi Shankar Prasad (Minister of Law and Justice; Electronics and Information TechnologyGovernment of India)
• Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal (President, AIMA and Chairman, The Hero Enterprise)

The speakers discussed about entrepreneurial and policy measures which are required to makedigitization affordable and inclusive and how the all-important connectivity infrastructure be built quicklyand cheaply to allow universal adoption of digital technologies in India.

Session 10- Folding the Future In: Reimagining India

Speakers –

• Lord Karan Bilimoria(CBE DLChairman, Cobra Beer Partnership)
• Chris Parsons (Chairman, India Practice, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP)
• Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal (President, AIMA and Chairman, The Hero Enterprise)
• T V Mohandas Pai (Senior Vice President, AIMA and Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services)

The session focused on how the Indian start-ups go from adapting successful technologies and business models to innovating for the world.

The Seminar addressed the issues and challenges faced by the industry in the adoption of the new accounting standards i.e. Ind AS along with the along with the issues and remedies for harmonization of Companies Act with Ind AS and the GST impact on corporate sector.

The various expert speakers who deliberated on the theme during the Inaugural Sessions were Mr. Dipankar Chatterji, Chairman, CII National Committee on Financial Reporting; Mr. P.R. Ramesh, Co-Chair CII National Committee on Financial Reporting, Mr. Amarjit Chopra, Chairman, Natioanl Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards, Susanta Kumar Panda, Member CBEC, Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Mr. Sudhir Soni, Partner Indian Member Firm of EY Global.

Later there were three panel discussions. The First Panel discussion was on ‘Transition to Ind AS- Experience Sharing’. The moderator for the panel was Dr. Sanjeev Singhal, Member, NACAS and Partner, Indian Member firm of EY Global, and the panelists were Mr. Vijay Kumar, Vice Chairman, Accounting Standards Board, ICAI and Chief Financial Officer, SIFY Technologies Ltd.; Mr. Jagannathan Chakravarthi, Chief Financial Officer, Mindtree Limited; Barindra Sanyal, Vice President (Finance), Tata Consultancy Services and Mr. Nitin Gupta, Group Finance Controller, Vedanta Limited. The panelists shared the various experiences of the corporate that have been encountered while implementing IFRS.

The Second Panel discussion was on ‘Harmonization of Companies Act with Ind AS-Issues and Remedies’ which was moderated by Mr. Sanjay Vij, Partner Indian member firm of EY Global and the panelists were Dr. Ashok Haldia, Managing Director & CEO PTC India Financial Services Ltd.; Mr. G. Sriram, Chief Financial Officer Mahindra Comviva; Mr. Rajiv Bajaj, Sr. Associate Director-Finance and Company Secretary Panasonic AVC Networks India Co. Ltd. and Mr. Ashish Gupta, Partner Walker Chandiok & Co LLP. The panelists discussed the various issues where there is disharmony in what is envisaged as per Ind AS and as stated in the Companies Act and the possible remedies.

The Third and the last Panel discussion was on ‘GST Impact on Corporate Sector- Disruptions & Way Forward’. The session was moderated by Mr. Bipin Sapra, Partner Indirect Tax EY and the panelists were Mr. Sanjiv Srivastava, Commisioner Central Board of Excise & Customs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India; Mr. Rajeev Yadav, Commissioner, GST Commissionerate CBEC, GOI; Mr. Anil Sharma, Chief Financial Officer, Heidelberg Cement India Ltd. and Mr. Sanjay Gulati, Group Vice President- Corporate Tax-GST GMR Group. The panelists discussed the challenges being faced by industries in transitioning to GST and how there might be further issues in product or service classification and the claim of input tax credited. The faculty found the Seminar highly informative and useful.

More than 160 delegates from Industry and Academia participated in this summit. The summit was conducted in an experience sharing interactive mode, encouraging high level of active dialogue and participation by delegates.

The Summit gave an insight about the challenges and opportunities in Digital HR and Artificial Intelligence. It also focused on topics like managing multi-generational work force, white collar’s IR, HR in Start-ups and Entrepreneurial Firms etc.

On the first day of the Summit, the Inaugural address was presented by Padma Shri Dr. Pritam Singh, a noted management thinker. The first round table members discussed “The digital HR- Challenges and Opportunities”. Panel members presented their ideas on new technology and innovations in this digital era and talked about artificial intelligence and human of ‘HR’. Mr Sunder Rajan, Founder and Director, Thomas Assessment India, took the initiative of second round table discussion on “New DNA of leadership and making an impact on the business through HR”. The discussion was followed by next session titled“IR and Unionization-How do we deal”. And fourth session was conducted on the topic “Wisdom and an edge of Domain expertise. Can we leverage their expertise or allow them to fade into oblivion?”

On the second day of Summit, Keynote address was presented by Mr. S Y Siddiqui, Chief Mentor, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. Dr V.P.Singh Advisor-OD, Patanjali Ayurveda Ltd initiated the discussion on the topic“HR in start-ups and social entrepreneurial Firms-Challenges and way ahead.” And summit was concluded with an interesting and exciting management game, conducted by Dr Prem Singh, President Global Human Resources-Wockhardt Ltd.

It was a great learning experience.

There were two teams from I.T.S. One team comprised of Prof Chandra Mani Sharma & Prof Alok Singh. Other team comprised of Dr Neel Rai & Prof Amit Singh.

PRSI is one of the oldest professional societies of India, formally constituted in year 1966. The venue of the Quiz was Indian Institute of Mass Communication, JNU Campus New Delhi. The inauguration of the event was held in the gracious presence of dignitaries including Mrs Nivedita Banerjee, Coordinator of PRSI Quiz, National President of PRSI and the participants from various organizations.

The quiz started with its preliminary round, where 35 teams participated. Renowned quiz master Mr Deepak from IOCL conducted the preliminary and final rounds of quiz. After preliminary round, there was networking tea, in which the faculty members interacted with the quiz master Mr Deepak and other participants.

In the next round, six teams were shortlisted. The teams from I.T.S got the appreciation for their performance from the quiz master Mr Deepak.

The event was a great learning experience and completed with lots of learning.

Dr. Abhinav P. Tripathi (Astt. Prof. Marketing), has presented his research paper titled “Customer orientation of BSNL employee: a variance analysis of SOCO scale” at the international seminar on Management and Computing Technologies Vision 2050held at Ideal Institute of Management & Technology (affiliated under I.P. University), New Delhi.

More than fifty research papers were presented in person across the three different tracks of the seminar. This international seminar inaugurated by Prof. Yogesh Singh (Vice-Chancellor, Delhi Technical University (DTU) along with Prof. Anu Singh Lather (Pro Vice-Chancellor, Delhi Technical University, New Delhi. The seminar get further graced with benign presence of Dr. Ashok Kumar Gadiya (Chairman, Mewar University), Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, Prof. Sanjeev Mittal, Prof. Sunil Khatri and other eminent scholars from research & academic world.

This seminar was conceptualized to create a learning environment about the future of management and technology principles with the current advancement in knowledge and application.