India “Telecom conference 2016” is India’s leading international ICT platform for the global community to connect, debate, network and share knowledge. India Telecom had jointly organized by the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government of India, and Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & industry (FICCI), with support from several prominent industry associations.

To improve ease of doing business in India a Simplified Proforma for Incorporating a Company Electronically (SPICe) e-form is to be implemented by December this year. The main objective of launching this e-format was to provide speedy incorporation related services within a stipulated timeframe, in line with international best practices, said Mr. Ramesh Abhishek, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India.

As the Chairperson at the plenary session on ‘Ease-of-Doing Business: NexGen Reforms’ at the India Telecom 2016 organized by the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and FICCI, Mr. Abhishek said that the existing INC-29 was not being used; hence SPICe will be the sole, simplified and versatile form available for incorporation of a company in India. Mr. Abhishek said that India ranked 130th in the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Business’ ranking, an improvement of one rank from the last year, which meant there was a long way to go. Hence the government was working towards dismantling complex processes to create a business-friendly climate in India.

Speaking about the recently released ease of doing ranking of the states, Mr. Abhishek said that a feedback mechanism would be included in the state rankings. The state ranking reflected that the Centre and state governments were working in tandem to improve the business climate in the country. Elaborating on the various initiatives undertaken by the government, Mr. Abhishek said that efforts were being made to reduce physical touch points between the government and private sector interactions with the use of technology to expedite the process of granting licenses and clearances.

The panelists at the session were Mr. P Balaji, Director – Regulatory, External Affairs & CSR, Vodafone India Ltd; Ms. Ankhi Das, Public Policy Director, Facebook -India, South & Central Asia; Ms. Chandrima Sinha, Vice President, Invest India; Ms. Swati Rangachari, Chief of Corporate Affairs, Sterlite Technologies Ltd.; Mr. R.K Upadhyay,Director, Virtual Network Operators Association of India (VNOAI); Mr. Pankaj Mohindroo, President, Indian Cellular Association and Mr. Vikram Tiwathia, Deputy Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India.

The session was moderated by Mr. Ashok Sud, Secretary General, Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI).

The two-day India Telecom concluded with an Open House Session, where Mr. J S Deepak, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Government of India; Mr. N Sivasailam, Additional Secretary (T), Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, along with other senior DoT officials addressed the questions raised by delegates.

Overall it was a new learning experience for all of us.

The objective of this workshop was to provide a platform for experts from all over the country to explore the various technology involved to make successful the ‘Digital India Project’ which provides the intensified impetus for further momentum and progress for e-Governance and would promote inclusive growth that covers electronic services, products, devices and job opportunities.

The Seminar was inaugurated by Dr. B.S.Goel, Director, IPEM, Ghaziabad, Col. (Dr.) A.S. Malhotra, Director General, IPEM, Ghaziabad, Chief Guest, Mr. Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, CDOT,New Delhi, Mr. Vimal Wakhlu, Former CMD, TCIL, New Delhi ,Dr. R.P.S Tomar, Director, MCA Department and Dr. Sugandha Goel,Dean Academics.

After Inaugural Session there were two Technical sessions as mentioned below:

Technical Session-1

Topic : “Infrastructure as Utility to Every Citizen”

Speaker: Dr. Renu Budhiraja, Sr. Director Deity, New Delhi

While addressing the gathering Dr. Renu discussed on the vision of Digital India which aims to transform the country into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. She said that the dream project of the Government of India will help in achieving the objectives of Education for all, information for all and medical facilities for all the citizens.

Topic 2: “Governance & Services on Demand”

Speaker : Dr.Vinay Thakur, Director, NeGD, Deity, New Delhi

Dr. Thakur said that 'Digital India' would seek to provide digital infrastructure as a utility for every citizen, e-Governance and e-Services on demand and facilitate digital empowerment of citizens, an official release said here. The digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen includes easy access to common service centre and "cradle-to -grave digital identity", e-Governance and e-Services on demand envisage electronic financial transactions and mobile platform based services, it said.

Topic 3: “Technology Challenges Safe & Secure Cyber -Space”

Speaker: Mr. G. Narendra Nath, DDG-Security, DoT, Sanchar Bhawan, New Delhi

While addressing the participants, Mr. Nath said that the world is experiencing an evolution of Smart Cities. These emerge from innovations in information technology that, while they create new economic and social opportunities, pose challenges to our security and expectations of privacy. Humans are already interconnected via smart phones and gadgets. Smart energy meters, security devices and smart appliances are being used in many cities. Homes, cars, public venues and other social systems are now on their path to the full connectivity known as the "Internet of Things." Standards are evolving for all of these potentially connected systems.

Technical Session-2

Topic 1 : “Digital Empowerment of Citizens”

Speaker: Mr. Sarad, Project Manager, WIPRO Technologies

Mr. Sharad discussed about the Digital Empowerment which aims to connect unreached and underserved communities of India in an effort to bring them out of digital darkness and empower them with information access through last mile connectivity, digital literacy and digital interventions. With the motto to ‘Inform, Communicate and Empower,’ DEF aims to find sustainable ICT solutions to overcome information poverty in remote and rural locations of India.

Topic 2 : “IT for jobs: Skills and Training that enable the youth to avail jobs in IT/ITes”

Speaker: Mr. Mansoorul Haque, Scientist, Ministry of Transport, NIC, New Delhi

While addressing the gathering Mr. Haque said that the Digital India also focuses on providing training to the youth in the skills required for availing employment opportunities in the IT/ITES sector. The target of this component is to train one crore students from smaller towns & villages for IT sector jobs over 5 years. DeitY is the nodal department for this scheme.

Topic 3 : “Digital Data Curation”

Speaker: Dr. T.V.Vijay Kumar, Professor, JNU, Delhi

While addressing the participants Dr. T.V.Vijay Kumar discussed about Digital curation and data preservation are ongoing processes, requiring considerable thought and the investment of adequate time and resources. You must be aware of, and undertake, actions to promote curation and preservation throughout the data lifecycle.

At the end of this one day Seminar, certificates were distributed among participants.

Overall it was a good and new learning experience about Technology Trends and various challenges in Digital India mission.

The objective of this workshop was to provide a platform for experts from all over the country to explore the various technology involved to make successful the ‘Digital India Project’ which provides the intensified impetus for further momentum and progress for e-Governance and would promote inclusive growth that covers electronic services, products, devices and job opportunities.

The Seminar was inaugurated by Dr. B.S.Goel, Director, IPEM, Ghaziabad, Col. (Dr.) A.S. Malhotra, Director General, IPEM, Ghaziabad, Chief Guest, Mr. Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, CDOT,New Delhi, Mr. Vimal Wakhlu, Former CMD, TCIL, New Delhi ,Dr. R.P.S Tomar, Director, MCA Department and Dr. Sugandha Goel,Dean Academics.

After Inaugural Session there were two Technical sessions as mentioned below:

Technical Session-1

Topic : “Infrastructure as Utility to Every Citizen”

Speaker: Dr. Renu Budhiraja, Sr. Director Deity, New Delhi

While addressing the gathering Dr. Renu discussed on the vision of Digital India which aims to transform the country into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. She said that the dream project of the Government of India will help in achieving the objectives of Education for all, information for all and medical facilities for all the citizens.

Topic 2: “Governance & Services on Demand”

Speaker : Dr.Vinay Thakur, Director, NeGD, Deity, New Delhi

Dr. Thakur said that 'Digital India' would seek to provide digital infrastructure as a utility for every citizen, e-Governance and e-Services on demand and facilitate digital empowerment of citizens, an official release said here. The digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen includes easy access to common service centre and "cradle-to -grave digital identity", e-Governance and e-Services on demand envisage electronic financial transactions and mobile platform based services, it said. .

Topic 3: “Technology Challenges Safe & Secure Cyber -Space”

Speaker: Mr. G. Narendra Nath, DDG-Security, DoT, Sanchar Bhawan, New Delhi

While addressing the participants, Mr. Nath said that the world is experiencing an evolution of Smart Cities. These emerge from innovations in information technology that, while they create new economic and social opportunities, pose challenges to our security and expectations of privacy. Humans are already interconnected via smart phones and gadgets. Smart energy meters, security devices and smart appliances are being used in many cities. Homes, cars, public venues and other social systems are now on their path to the full connectivity known as the "Internet of Things." Standards are evolving for all of these potentially connected systems.

Technical Session-2

Topic 1 : “Digital Empowerment of Citizens”

Speaker: Mr. Sarad, Project Manager, WIPRO Technologies

Mr. Sharad discussed about the Digital Empowerment which aims to connect unreached and underserved communities of India in an effort to bring them out of digital darkness and empower them with information access through last mile connectivity, digital literacy and digital interventions. With the motto to ‘Inform, Communicate and Empower,’ DEF aims to find sustainable ICT solutions to overcome information poverty in remote and rural locations of India.

Topic 2 : “IT for jobs: Skills and Training that enable the youth to avail jobs in IT/ITes”

Speaker: Mr. Mansoorul Haque, Scientist, Ministry of Transport, NIC, New Delhi

While addressing the gathering Mr. Haque said that the Digital India also focuses on providing training to the youth in the skills required for availing employment opportunities in the IT/ITES sector. The target of this component is to train one crore students from smaller towns & villages for IT sector jobs over 5 years. DeitY is the nodal department for this scheme.

Topic 3 : “Digital Data Curation”

Speaker: Dr. T.V.Vijay Kumar, Professor, JNU, Delhi

While addressing the participants Dr. T.V.Vijay Kumar discussed about Digital curation and data preservation are ongoing processes, requiring considerable thought and the investment of adequate time and resources. You must be aware of, and undertake, actions to promote curation and preservation throughout the data lifecycle.

At the end of this one day Seminar, certificates were distributed among participants.

Overall it was a good and new learning experience about Technology Trends and various challenges in Digital India mission.

The Seminar addressed the issues and challenges faced by the industry in the adoption of the new accounting standards along with the various aspects impacted by the changes in the other regulating Acts such as the Companies Act, 2013 and the Income Tax Act.

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. Jitendra Agarwal, Partner, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP; Mr. Amarjit Chopra, Chairman, Natioanl Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards; Mr. Amardeep Singh Bhatia, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. Later there were three panel discussions. The First Panel Discussion was on ‘Indian Accounting Standards-Implementation Issues and the Way Forward’. The moderator for the panel was Dr. Sanjeev Singhal, Member, NACAS and Partner, S.R. Batliboi & Co. LLP and the panelists were Mr. Vijay Kumar, Vice Chairman, Accounting Standards Board, ICAI and Chief Financial Officer, SIFY Technologies Ltd.; Mr. Vijay, Head Controllership and Reporting & Chief Risk Officer, Mindtree Limited and Mr. Sriram Ranganathan, Controller-Technical Accounting, Financial Reporting and Revenue, Wipro Limited.

The Second Panel discussion was on ‘Accounting and Reporting Challenges under the Companies Act, 2013’ which was moderated by Mr. Sunder V. Iyer, Partner-Audit & Assurance, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP and the panelists were Mr. Amit Jain, Managing Director, GTI Capital Group; Mr. Sriram G, Chief Financial Officer, Mahindra Comviva and Mr. Deepak Doegar, Regional General Manager, GE Power Generation Services-South Asia. The Third and the last Panel Discussion was on ‘Computation of MAT for IndAS Adopted Companies & Implementation Issue in Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (ICDS)’. The session was moderated by Mr. Rohinton Sidhwa, Partner-Tax, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP; Mr. Pallav Gupta, Head Taxation, ITC Limited and Mr. Rohit Gupta, Chief Financial Officer, NIIT Limited. There was special address by Mr. Rajesh Kumar Bhoot, Joint Secretary TPL-II, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

The faculty found the Seminar highly informative and useful.

Organized by BIMTECH in association with EPSI, New Delhi, India .

Around 50 Profs/Deans/ Directors/ VCs were present in the panel discussion in Delhi. The main attraction of the discussion was presence of international guests from 8 countries on the project and on the discussion for interaction. The session also provided opportunity to discuss collaborations with foreign bodies.

He discussed the following topics which are related to digital marketing:

• Social media design and implementation using C-Suite Framework.
• Online personal branding and thought leadership using KASA.
• Marketing content management.
• Social mediums and their optimizations.
• Blogging and contents packs creations for Social Media.
• Defining and Promotional mix for social mediums.
• Campaign Plan , Scheduling and Tracker using PROFIT Technology.
• Milestone and Goal definition etc.

After all the workshop is informative but good part is that , we are doing all these features for our department.

The workshop consisted of 45 participants and 6 resource persons. Total 12 sessions were done that covered different aspects of doctrinal legal research including Atlas-Ti software. The course was designed to serve a systematic introduction of doctrinal aspects of legal research. It aimed to introduce specific tools and techniques including the application of software like Atlas Ti. The workshop aimed at strengthening the faculty and researchers both. The resource persons were invited from various fields of specializations having vast experience and knowledge in their respective areas to cater the demand of the workshop. Some of eminent speakers during the session were:

• Prof. Ranbir Singh, Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Dwarka
• Prof. Anil Suttar, Chairman, Centre for research Methodlogy, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
• Prof. Ajay Kumar Gupta, Erasmus Mundus Fellow, University of Milan, Italy
• Prof. Shashikala Gurpur Dean Symbiosis Law School, Pune and AHRB Visiting Fellow, Edinburgh Law School.
• Prof. GS Bajpai, Registrar, National Law University, Delhi
• Dr. Priya Rai, Recipient of FCIL Schaffer Grant form American Association of Law Libraries-2012 and Bitner Research Fellowship form Cornell University Law Library (USA)

The FDP was divided into 8 sessions wherein the experts from different campuses of TCS ,across the India, addressed the participants. There were many distributed iQlasses that were connected together using video conferencing facility. The event was formally kick started at 9:00am with formal introduction of participants and the resource persons.

In the first technical session, the experts from IIT Madras briefed about the NPTEL certification programs. Recently, IIT-M has launched certification programs on various subjects which are opened to everyone with nominal fees of rupees one thousand to appear at the certification exam. For making this initiative successful local chapters are being started at institutes across India. There are currently 600 odd local chapters who are associated with this.

In second session, Dr. Pushpendra Singh from IIITD discussed about various research projects developed by him and his team. These projects are successfully implemented in India. He narrated how the mobile applications using mobile sensors were able to collect data to solve many problems in resource deprived rural areas. He explained his data collection and dissemination application developed for detection of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) used by ASHA workers in Bhatinda, Punjab. While explaining his other project, Dr. Singh discussed how voice channels were used to transfer data in emergency situations. He also motivated the attendee faculty members to follow best teaching practices and technology to make the teaching more effective and useful for students.

There were other useful sessions throughout the day, wherein the experts discussed and demonstrated various interesting predictions and current digital breakthroughs. It was really a nice learning experience and a day full of learning & networking.