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.

This was an excellent Program designed and coordinated by Dr. J. K. Jha, Assistant professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Dr. Jitesh J. Thakkar, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. In today’s business environment, organizations and managers are looking for structured, logical and evidence-based decision making due to unparalleled growth of businesses. Consequently, industrial and academic research facilities need to apply rigorous analytical methods to business decision problems for systematic ways of managing the organization.

The purpose of the five-day short-term course on Quantitative Decision Modeling was to equip participants with the advanced analytical tools and background needed to analyze and solve business decision problems.

These are the some of the major learning outcomes:

• Introduction to Quantitative Approach of Decision Making
• Modeling with Linear Programming and Graphical Solution Approach
• Simplex Method and Special Cases
• Revised Simplex Method
• Theory of Duality, Sensitivity Analysis and Post Optimality
• Transportation Problem and Its Variants, Integer Programming
• Assignment Problem
• Integer Programming
• Queuing Theory
• Heuristic Methods in Operations Research
• · Hands on exercise using CIPLEX /EXCEL

The Summit witnessed a participation of around 225 delegates comprising of corporates, infrastructure companies, banks, insurance companies, financial intermediaries and merchant banks, AMCs, technology players in BFSI space, PEs & VCs, multilateral agencies, policy makers & regulators, finance professionals, debt syndicators, economists and academia. The Chief Guest for the Summit was Mr. Vinod Rai, Chairman, Banks Board Bureau, Government of India. He highlighted that the banks stressed assets are due to high leveraging by the borrowing companies. He also highlighted that the Banks Board Bureau is analysing these stress assets and will put forward an intermediary mechanism to settle them. RBI is also preparing guidelines on the issues faced in case of joint lending by banks. Mr. Rai was hopeful that all these will facilitate in cleaning the balance sheet of the banks. In this regard, a roadmap will be ready by 15th June so that a certain degree of comfort can be provided in the decision making process. Then there were four Panel Discussions with Panel Discussion I on ‘Linking the Unbanked Population to the Formal Banking System’.

The speakers for the panel were Mr. Rakesh Sethi, Executive Director, Union Bank of India; Ms. Ratna Vishwanathan, Chief Executive Officer, Microfinance Institutions Network; and Mr. Anuj Pandey, EVP & Regional Business Head-North, Religare Finvest Ltd. The session chair was Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman, NABARD. The Panel Discussion II was on ‘Enhanced Role of Technology & Applications in Banking and Financial Sector’. The panelists were Mr. Kiran Karnik, Former President, NASSCOM; Mr. Murli Mahalingam, Industry Director-Banking, SAP India Subcontinent; and Mr. Trilok Chandra, Director, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India; and Mr. Rajesh Dhuddu, Senior VP-Market Development, Quatrro Processing Service. The session moderator was Mr. Ravi Nawal, Country Head, Kapronasia in India. The Panel Discussion III was on ‘Financing the Infrastructure Gap: Role of Banks, Financial Institutions & Specialist Institutions’. The panelists were Mr. S.B. Nayar, Chairman and Managing Director, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd.; Mr. K. Mukundan, CEO UTI Capital Ltd.; and Mr. Sidharath Kapur, President and CFO-Airports, GMR Group. The Moderator for the panel was Mr. Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Consulting Editor, The Mint. The last Panel Discussion IV was on ‘Structural Reforms in the Indian Financial Sector’. The expert speakers for the session were Mr. Deepak Chatterjee, Managing Director & CEO, IIFCL Projects Ltd.; Mr. Nikhil Sahni, Secior President and Country Head, Government Banking & Strategic Government Advisory, YES Bank; Mr. A.K. Choudhary, Chief General Manager, Department of Banking Regulation, Reserve Bank of India; Mr. Naresh Makhijani, Partner and Head-Financial Services, KPMG India; and Mr. Krishnan Sitaraman, Senior Director, CRISIL Ratings.

The session was chaired by Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, Chairman & Managing Director, Rabo Equity Advisors Pvt. Ltd. The speakers deliberated on the various aspects of financial institutions and how their functioning can be made more effective at a fair cost with benefits to all sectors of the society. The speakers also stressed upon the need for a greater role of Micro Finance Institutions and NBFCs as they work at the grassroot level so that they compliment the formal banking channels in reaching out to the bottom of the pyramid. There was also a release of the CII - CRISIL Paper on ‘Building India through a Stronger Financial System’ was released during the Summit. The faculty members found the Summit very informative and insightful.