Mr. Rohit emphasized on changed importance of research over a period of time everywhere in the world. Technology, Big Data, Social Media and Mobile Phone are big reasons for change in the field of research. As the time has progressed, many new methods have been evolved for conducting the research. Observation, Ethnography, etc have become important methods for data collection. Researcher has to be a good story teller in order to work out the complete understanding of research to the client. Use of mechanical devices is very high now a days in research. Mr. Rohit emphasized on knowledge about latest analytical tools and their important to make the analysis of multiple variables is important for arriving to decision making. 

It was a great learning experience to all participants and students had many queries related to research which were resolved intelligently by speaker.

The session was coordinated by Dr. Lalit Kumar Sharma.

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The agreement was signed with the spirit of International understanding and good will to consider the possibilities for enhancing educational and research cooperation by our students, staff, and faculty. 

The Foreign delegate, Prof. Jaishankar Raman - Assistant Provost for International Affairs and Associate Professor of Economics, Valparaiso University, State of Indiana, United States of America interacted with Faculty and Students of Management Department emphasizing University’s aims to foster in its students a lifelong commitment to this search for truth, encouraging the development of a sense of personal vocation as well as the intellectual and professional skills needed to pursue it.

Prof. Jaishankar Raman is responsible for overseeing existing relationships with global partners, exploring collaborations with new partners around the world, coordinating academic and non-academic programs for international students to ensure their success, and coordinating international programs for all students on campus. He also works in close collaboration with Enrollment Management to develop, strengthen, and systematize international recruitment, application, and enrollment processes.

After positive discussions between us, we agree to further explore these possibilities at our respective institution in near future.

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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and tyrants and a soldier will fight long & hard for a bit of colored ribbon."  -      Thomas Jefferson

Since the past last two weeks an angry patriotic fervor has gripped the whole of India. Hence it was important to enlighten the little learners so that they have a general awareness about the many helping hands they have around them, including one of the best military forces in the world.

Shiksha started off the day with a discussion of the common community helpers, and it was carried on beautifully by Disha Saraswat describing the role of about fifteen community helpers such as teachers, doctors, cobblers, barbers, the police, washer folk, etc. As usual the children were not to be left behind as they shouted out the names of almost all such helpers. The session continued with the description of services delivered by each and every community helper and their work in our time of necessity.

The second part of the day's classes dealt with an introduction to our real life superhero Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, whose loyalty & brave deeds were witnessed by the whole nation and the world beyond. Upasana Singh lead the session by teaching the children about the components of the Indian Armed Forces - The Air Force, The Army & The Navy. She also spoke about INS Vikrant, the first aircraft carrier built in India. An interesting part of the session dealt with the different types of salutes & their meaning, which was like a cherry on the cake.

The children were enthralled by the massive dose of learning coupled with fun. As per practice, an impromptu quiz was then held to test the knowledge of the day's learning. The day then closed out with the distribution of packets of  "Bikano Moong Daal" & "Parle Orange" toffees among the children.

Prof. Lokesh Upreti guided the volunteers in the conduct of the programme as the faculty coordinator of CSR Parivatan.

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Dr. Arpita Mukherjee, professor at ICRIERdelivered the welcome address. Gladys Lopez- Acevedo, lead economist at World Bank gave a brief presentation of the report“Exports to Jobs- Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia”, addressing the general issues characterizing the South-Asian countries. The issues taken up by her included high population growth of almost 60%, magnitude of informal jobs immensely exceeding that of formal jobs and related issues. She expressed that the trade to GDP ratio have came down from 55.8% to 41.1% from 2012 to 2017.Daniel Samaan, senior economist at ILO stated that the solution for these was the main thrust of the report, and emphasized on enhancement of export in South Asian counties. In order to increase export three policies have been suggested in the report, which areIncrease the scale of exports, Change the composition of exports to help the disadvantaged workers and Change the composition of workforce to help the disadvantaged group.

Amitabh Kant, CEONitiAyog spoke about Global Value Chain and the need to have single objective to focus on. He stressed on the improvement required in the quality of jobs available in India. He also made special address to the MSME sectors to help exports.Manish Kumar, MD-CEO, NSDC shared inputs regarding government’s policies to encourage skilled workers by giving marginally high wage rate. He also stated that large percentage of workers are skilled but not certified. Ms. Sabina Dewan, ED of Just Jobs network threw light on strategies for job creation and workforce development.

During the course of the panel discussion several new debatable issues emerged like ‘Should India focus on its huge domestic market or on exports only’? ‘How should the composition of exports be formed?’ Trade deficit is a problem featuring South Asian countries, the issue of ‘how to increase exports in this scenario?’ also cropped up.

The illuminating exchanges concluded on the note that exports undoubtedly can increase jobs in a country but we also need to consider a host of other specific aspects to handle the problem of job scarcity in South Asian countries.

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The Major objective behind this event was to enhance the team work and to showcase the talent in the creative end of marketing for the budding managers. The event had two round to compete. Brain Storming, Memory based game in which participants have to visualize pictures and memorize it in the same sequence as shown to them. Chemmarca, Game of Dumb Charades-a team have to act with gestures and later the team has to explain the logo based on the various parameter of Marketing.There were certain parameters for judgement including creativity, confidence, team work, content (delivery). This was the second club event for MBA 1st year and they portrayed great interest, enthusiasm and team spirit. Students have also shown their willingness for such future activities which may further enhance their learning and enrich their experience.

The teams adjudged winners were, Tulika & Adnan and Alok & Janhavi for Ist and IInd positions respectively.

Felicitation ceremony was graced by honourable Director (Management) Dr. Ajay Kumar, wherein he motivated students by deliberating technicalities of Marketing and importance of out of the box thinking. The Occasion was also graced by Dr. Sanjeev Tandon and Dr. Nitin Saxena. The entire activity was conducted under the mentorship and Guidance of marketing club Co-ordinator Dr. Garima Srivastav.

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Teams from around 30 reputed institutes from Delhi-NCR participated in the event with the maximum number of participants in the Operations & IT category. Students had to present their original work by giving a presentation followed by questions from the judges panel. The competition became even more tough as mostly teams were from B.tech also who have their prototypes. 

With his management skills and dedication towards the work, I.T.S. grabbed the first position as Aru Bansal was awarded with a certificate, a shield sponsored by GMA and cash prize of Rs.2000 for  presenting the Research Paper on "Impact of Augmented Reality on Consumer Buying Behavior" in the category of "Operations & Information Technology" 

The research was done under the guidance of Prof. Lokesh Upreti, Assistant Professor (Marketing & IT). The event concluded with the prize distribution ceremony. It was a proud moment for I.T.S., Mohan Nagar.

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With that point in mind, it is necessary to have a proper knowledge about the other nations, several of whom make up the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation). That was Parivartan’s goal for the day. The volunteers for the day were Hitesh Sharma, Rahul Gupta, Kirti Singh, Bhavendra, Kalyani Ruhela and Roshan Kumar. Kirti started off the day with a discussion on the countries that make up India’s neighborhood – China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan. As usual, the children were not to be left behind, as they shouted out the names of almost all the countries. The session continued with the capital cities of these countries.  Bhavendra then entered the scene with some nuggets about the languages that are spoken the most in these nations. The second part of the day’s classes dealt with math basics as Rahul got the children to recite multiplication tables up to twenty. Those who knew where asked to step forward and lead the others in reciting the tables. As is the norm here, an impromptu quiz was then held to test the knowledge of the day’s learning. The day then closed out with the distribution of packets of ‘Crax Rings’ and ‘Parle Kaccha Mango Bite’ toffees among the children. Dr. Indraneel Mandal accompanied and motivated the student volunteers. Prof. Lokesh Upreti planned and guided the volunteers in the conduct of the programme as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club - Parivartan.

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In the first segment of the activity, students were taken to Computer Labs 2 and 7 to learn working on MS Office. Participants were taught and then asked to prepare a document on the theme of the day using MS word and Google. Student Volunteers taught them to use Internet, working on MS Word to select, Copy & paste pictures and gathering information with the help of Google. Then they were asked to prepare a Presentation on the theme. 

In the second segment of the activity, students presented their views on the presentations they prepared for International Mother Language Day. Also, children were introduced to some fun games that made them learn to be creative, goal oriented, to be confident, and develop presence of mind at every part of life. The session was full of learning with fun.

Prof. Shilpi Vaish, Faculty Coordinator of Utthan Club, along with team felicitated the event by distributing Prizes to all the winners of the activity. All the students were given refreshment at the end of the session. Faculty Coordinators of Utthan Activity are: Dr. Nitin Saxena and Prof. Shilpi Vaish.

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MDP started with the Welcome Address by Coordinator of MDP Cell, Dr. Lalit Sharma. A total of 10 Senior and Middle level managers from KPMG, Knitpro International, Parmeshwar Creation Pvt Ltd, MeraBazaar.com, Syara Trexim Pvt Ltd, Mechsoft and Global upside India Pvt Ltd. were registered for the MDP.

The program was designed with an objective to enhance the team building and effective leadership skills of the participants through conceptual and experiential learning sessions. Programme focused on different aspects like, Effective Interpersonal Relationships at workplace, Role of Emotional Intelligence, Planning and organizing Team work, Group Decision Making an Role of a Team Leader.

A variety of tools were used for the effective training and sharing the various aspects of the theme. Participants showed unprecedented interest in the tasks and management games that ended with great learning and a lot of fun. At the end of the MDP, participants shared their experiences and takeaways. Finally, the MDP, packed with experiential learning, management games and an insightful discussion concluded with the distribution of certificates. MDP was conducted successfully under the able leadership and guidance of Director Management, Dr. Ajay Kumar with immense contribution and support received from Associate Vice-President CRC, Prof. Durba Roy. The event witnessed the encouraging presence of Prof. Charu Chaudhry, Dr. Dhruv Pandey and Dr. Namita Dixit.

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In this session, Expert Mr Sachin Luthra,CFD discussed about demonstration the capabilities of ANSYS Mechanical and CFD analysis applications for various loading conditions for modelling / meshing and analysing the pumps design and performance. 
It was nice E learning session for all participated Students.

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Level 1 of this competition was initiated in the month of September, 2018 for the graduating students at the respective colleges/institutes and concluded with a GRAND FINALE at I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad. 

The mega show- GRAND FINALE- YTH-2019 kicked off in the morning of 18th February, 2019 with huge registration of 292 students, 14 teachers & parents from 55 participating colleges/institutes. The opening ceremony of Chanakaya Auditorium was the curtain raiser of this mega show. The event was formally inaugurated with lamp lighting ceremony in auspicious presence of Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman – I.T.S The Education Group, Shri Surinder Sood – Director (PR), I.T.S The Education Group and Dr. Ajay Kumar -  Director Management.

Shri Surinder Sood, Director PR, I.T.S -The Education Group in his welcome address asked the students to plan their career in right way. He also interacted with the parents and discussed what support they should provide in guiding and shaping the career of their children. He pointed out that good career can only be build when right direction is suggested to the students at right time. Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director Management- I.T.S Mohan Nagar, addressed the participants, in his speech he highlighted that one should not feel de -motivated after losing a competition rather one should look forward for a positive aspect related to it. Dr. Nitin Saxena presented the overview of the event and sequence of the program. 

After the inaugural ceremony, three written elimination rounds were conducted. The Semi finals were conducted parallel for UP and Delhi Colleges. Quiz Master for two semi- final rounds and final round were Ms. Ashtha and Ms. Tulika.

Participants also enjoyed Gaming Stalls and Nukkad Natak on “Voters Awareness” organized by MBA students and coordinated by Prof. Jyotsana Vaid.

Prof. Yachna Malhotra and Prof. Shikha Arora conducted Employ ability skill session for the eliminated students from round one. Dr. Lalit Sharma & Dr. Garima Srivastava with admission team coordinated the campus round of the students.

The Participants energized 06 finalist participants with a loud applause for their out of the box skills and show cased the event as a great mix of talent, energy and enthusiasm. The Champion’s trophy with cash prize of Rs. 10000 was lifted by Rishabh Gautam from DAV PG COLLEGE BULANDSHER, RISHU SHARMA from RG PG COLLEGE MEERUT bagged second position with a prize money of Rs.7500 and CHANDAN VAISH KARMA from  JSPG COLLEGE, SIKANDRABAD grabbed third prize with cash prize of Rs.5000. The next 03 consolation cash prizes of Rs.1000  were won by VINIT TEVATHIA from Laxmi Chand Patvari  COLLEGE, BAGHPAT, AMANDEEP from GHMIT, KARKARDOMA  DELHI, GURPREET KAUR from  DIRD, DELHI.

Event was very well  coordinated and was a huge success.

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The day started with one minute' silence after prayer, in the memory of the forty Indian soldiers whose lives were brutally cut short at Pulwama last week.

The first segment warmed things up with a P.T. session led by Sunil and Jyoti. They first explained the meaning and importance of P.T. or Physical Training.  Helped by the other volunteers, they taught the children about the basic stretches for different parts of the body. Needless to say, the learners joined in with the expected zest and vigour.

Coming to the more fun part of the day’s activity, the volunteers had arranged for two kinds of games. In one, the kids had to do the opposite of what they were instructed. For example, when asked to sit, they had to stand up. Those who failed to do so would be eliminated. This was a throwback to the stress on sports as a lesson on attentiveness and quick response.

In the other game,  Sunil played music on a speaker. The participants had to dance with the music, turning into statues as soon as the music stopped. Those who could not would be out of the game.

Four winners were selected from each game. Each of them received a badminton racket set as a prize. A revision of the day’s learning was also carried out, with those answering correctly receiving a ‘Parle Kaccha Mango Bite’ toffee each. The day winded down with the distribution of packets of ‘Crax Rings’ and ‘Parle Orange Bite’ toffees among the children.

Dr. Indraneel Mandal accompanied and motivated the student volunteers. Prof. Lokesh Upreti planned and guided the volunteers in the conduct of the programme as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club - Parivartan    

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In this session, Mr. Singh interacted with existing students and discussed about latest trends and technologies in IT Industry. He has also shared his experience on the technology he is working on including Machine Learning and AI Based systems. He has also guided them to focus on individual enhancement of technical and communication skills.

He has also suggested How to prepare for a career of choice and succeed. Mentioning about the latest trends he said that in spite of all developments the core remain almost same and hence fundamentals needs to be worked upon and should be made strong. It was truly mesmerizing to listen him and his thought process.

This event was in the series of Invited talks by eminent alumni of repute by Dept of IT of the institute with an objective to provide the detailed insight of the latest developments in interpersonal skills, technology, research issues and futuristic development.

It was good experience for participating students.

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In this session, Mr. Kamal Dodeja delivered talk on “Building Blocks of Running enterprise Applications”. It was wonderful to be the part of this Session. He discussed about Scalability of Applications, significance of Clouds and how it is paying back to the organizations. he also talked about the Availability, Security and deployments process of applications in a cloud environment.

Mr. Dodeja enlightened on Virtualization and its working in detail.

This event was in the series of alumni talk by Dept. of IT for Invited talks by esteemed I.T.S alumni with an objective to provide the detailed insight of the theme to the upcoming and working professionals about the technological, research and allied issues and experience sharing by leading experts and professionals.

Mr Dodeja also interacted with the faculties and answered the queries related with recent technical challenges & applications raised during the session.

Overall it was a great learning session and well appreciated by everyone present.

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Business Summit witnessed the presence of prominent speakers across the industries on the day.  Major General Dilawar Singh, Director General, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Government of India addressed the gathering as the Chief Guest and  Shri Raghavender G.R. IAS, Joint Secretary Department of Justice Ministry of Law & Justice Government of India as  the Guest of Honor . Other renowned experts for the business summit were, Mr. Prashant Sharma, Senior Vice President ,Kotak Securities, Mr. Vinayak Lal  , Senior GM, DS Group, Mr. Avinash Srivastava , General Manager, DLF, Ms. Latika Wadhwa , CEO (Founder), Mompreneur Circle,  Mr. Jyoti Das Business  , Head Asia Pacific, Calvin Klein,  Mr. Akash Sharma, VP – Finance ,Bajaj Hindustan Ltd., Mr. Narendra Kumbhat, Founder Mentor, Virtual  CFO Partners Pvt Ltd.,Mr. Bharat Bhushan , Head (IT& Social Media), Doordarshan,  Mr. Pramod Joshi , CEO, Winning Mantra,  Dr. Shobha Kulsrestha, Corporate Trainer, Mr. Amit Kumar Tanwar, AVP – Business Banking Group, IndusInd Bank,  Ms. Manavika Sharma, AVP –HR, BIS Research, Ms. Margaret Chari, Organization and position : Sports and Recreatio, Commission,  Business, Development and Marketing Manager from Zimbabwe, Ms. Daniela Tello Rioja, CEO and Co-Founder Tinto Libre. Social entrepreneurship on economic vulnerability reduction from Colombia,  Mr. Abdibeshir Said , Lecturer and College registrar head at Haramaya University from Ethiopia. 82 foreign delegates from 35 countries (Ethopia, Jimbabe, Afganistan, Argentina, Kenia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Columbia etc ) and 60 delegates from corporate & academia registered themselves for Summit. Foreign Delegates & other delegates from Delhi/NCR showed huge enthusiasm by participating till the last session of the Summit. 

The Summit was designed with an inaugural session, keeping focal theme in mind and three different panel sessions focusing on Marketing Practices During Innovation, Customer Engagement Trends in Financial Services, Leveraging Digital HR for Organizational Excellence  

Inaugural session of Summit started with the opening remarks of Sh. Surinder Sood, Director (PR) , I.T.S – The Education Group. He emphasized on the role of digitization for upliftment of unorganized sector, expedition of corporate social responsibility activities of business . Dr. Anusha Agrawal, (Convenor)  discussed an overview and detailed program of the Summit. Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director (Management)  delivered welcome address. He discussed issues related with digital intelligence, digital innovations, company culture and virtual business system with the help of digitalization. Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S - The Education Group addressed all representatives from industry, academia, government and educational institutions from India and abroad. He highlighted achievements of the Government plan and programs initiated by Hon’ble Prime minister and role of digitalization in effective utilization of such programs. Guest of Honor Sh. Raghvendra G.R.(IAS) addressed  role of digitalization in globalized economy, copyright treaty, encryption device scheme, new disruptive technology, data mining techniques and financial inclusion in the light of  digitalization. Chief Guest Major General  Dilawar Singh stressed on evolving new business modules, creation of long term strategy with short term project, hybrid model for adopting changes, aggregation vs segregation and inspirational leadership. Finally he energized the audience with the slogan “Nation First and Character Must” and “Jai Hind”.

Session I deliberations were focused upon Marketing Practices During Innovation

Mr. Vinayak Lal  , Senior GM, DS Group was the moderator of the session through out the session he enhanced the spontaneity of the session. Mr. Bharat Bhushan, Head (IT& Social Media), Doordarshan addressed issues based on role of social media in marketing, artificial intelligence and virtual media and how rapidly data getting transmitted on regular basis on the world wide web. Mr. Jyoti and Ms. Margarate Chari  elaborated how to  create a desire for a product, relevance of E- commerce. Mr. Avinash Srivastava focused on augmented reality and virtual reality and prediction of customer need.  He focused upon disruption drivers in form of market dynamics, geopolitical disequilibrium & environmental concerns.

Session II deliberations were focused upon Customer Engagement Trends in Financial Services

Mr. Narendra Kumbhat, Founder Mentor, Virtual  CFO Partners Pvt Ltd was the moderator of the session and thus made it ensure that it provides meaningful takeaways for the audience. Mr. Amit Kumar Tanwar, AVP – Business Banking Group, IndusInd Bank expressed their views on the theme during panel discussion. He specifically pointed out development in last 10-15 years indicating scope of numerous opportunities & innovation in India. He spoke about digital revolution and innovations in Indian Banking Sector. Mr. Prashant Sharma Senior Vice President ,Kotak Securities explained customer online query related with money transfer, check balance, money investment and loans. He emphasized upon customer relationship in era of Digitization & Artificial Intelligence. Ms. Daniela Tello Rioja, CEO and Co-Founder Tinto Libre from Columbia discussed banking sector innovations with the help of digitalization and   enhancing banking efficiency in terms  of sanctioning online and offline loans to the customer in context with the country Columbia. Mr. Akash Sharma , VP – Finance ,Bajaj Hindustan Ltd. elaborated various trends in Financial Services Sector and the factors to keep in mind before investing money.

Session III deliberations were focused upon Leveraging Digital HR for Organizational Excellence  

Dr. Shobha Kulsrestha, Corporate Trainer was the moderator of the session and elaborated process of promotions and increments with effective digital system. Mr. Abdibeshir Said, Registrar, Haramaya University (Ethiopia) expressed their views on contemporary HR issues and role of digitalization in Human Development in Ethiopia. He emphasized upon technology updation of HR fraternity in order to imagine the future, design the future & align the future with the present. Ms. Malvika Sharma, AVP –HR, BIS Research addressed about hiring talent, on boarding process and rewards and recognition process with the help of digitalization. She spoke about digital revolution, virtual organization & challenges related with them. He said that the decision making will be data-driven along with inner gut & feeling in time ahead and intellectual work will be done by machines. Mr. Pramod Joshi, CEO Winning Mantra attempted issues related with interview, employee data and  HR planning  in contemporary age with rapid digitalization. Ultimately entire sessions were highly informative, productive and sensitizing to students, academicians and business professionals. He advised everyone to rethink about the concept of leaders & the leadership in changing times.

I.T.S Mohan Nagar has a rich tradition to organize such events based on contemporary social, business, academic, industrial and other developmental issues in addition to its regular academic, professional and research based activities with its prime objectives of   creating a sense of awareness among audiance and ensuring sincere efforts of the institution for  socio economic  development and thus acting as a catalyst for nation building. Business Summit- 2019 is also a part of the same endeavor to strengthen Industry- Institution- Interface to facilitate competitive and time demanding professional education and to produce business leaders and executives to cater demand of industry, business and society. 

Business Summit 2019 ended with vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Vivek Pachuari.

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