‘Parivartan’ – The Slum Education Programme

10-06-18

10th June, 2018 activity of ‘Parivartan’- the Slum Education Programme, a CSR initiative of ITS, Ghaziabad was an activity based session during which the children enjoyed learning the directions right and left, up and down. They also learnt finding directions in a map. Prof. Lokesh Upreti interacted with the slum children generously and enjoyed his debut at the CSR.

Volunteers of the day – Hitesh Sharma, Punit Modi, Aru Bansal, Pankaj Prasad and Prabhat Awasthi started the class with the prayer and informed the children about the highlights of the day.

The first session of the day was an activity on directions. The purpose was to make children familiar and sure about directions like right and left, up and down. The children were asked to stand in rows and lift their respective hands up when instructed. Those who responded well to instructions were selected for the next round and those who failed to understand the instructions, were asked to sit down. The second round of the same activity was to move head up and down as per instructions. The instructions were random and changing frequently. Finally 23 winners were chosen for the sweet surprise – Motichoor Ke Laddu.

The second session of the day was on Map Reading during which the children were told how to find directions East, West, North and South on map. This was explained with the examples of cities like Jammu, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Ahmedabad.

The activity concluded with the distribution of Haldirams Takatak and éclairs. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi accompanied and guided the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club.

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Dr. Shuchita Singh attended Seminar on Financial Literacy.

09-06-18

Faculty of Department of Management at I.T.S Ghaziabad attended seminar on Financial Literacy. The topic of the seminar was Financial Literacy Awareness Program (FLAP). The seminar was conducted by Mr. Varun Malhotra, IIM A alumnus and eminent speaker on Financial literacy. Mr. Malhotra has conducted such sessions in BSF, CEGR, DAV schools, IIFL and many other Institutions.

The points discussed during the seminar were, Knowing Investing, Understanding Active and Passive income, understanding the risks associated with investing, different investment strategies, like buy and hold, when to buy and when to sell, IPO strategy and the power of compounding.

The speaker not only delivered the talk in a very smooth manner, but also answered the queries of audience in a simple and easy to understand way. The lecture was highly informative and useful for the beginners in investment world.

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‘Parivartan’ – The Slum Education Programme

03-06-18

3rd June, 2018 activity of ‘Parivartan’- the Slum Education Programme, a CSR initiative of ITS, Ghaziabad was a twofold session on Vedic Math and World Environment Day. Besides, PGDM alumni Shivani Bhatt made the day sweeter for slum children with the Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolates.

Volunteers of the day – Veerangana Preetam, Ankush Mehta, Abhay Gupta, Shivani Bhatt and Hitesh Sharma started the class with the prayer and informed the children about the highlights of the day.

The first session of the day was on ‘Vedic Math’ which was effectively conducted by Mr. Hitesh Sharma. He started with the question – What are Vedas? Then he named all four Vedas namely Rigveda, Samveda, Yajurveda and Atharv-veda. He also talked about 16 sutras and 13 sub-sutras. After a detailed session on Vedic Math, he also revised tables for the children.

The second session of the day was on ‘World Environment Day’. The children were told about the meaning of the word and the significance of the day. They were informed of the measures to keep the environment neat, clean and healthy.

A revision of tables along with a quiz on the exercises done was also conducted. Ms. Shivani Bhatt of PGDM 2015-17 had brought Cadbury Dairy Milk for the children and made their day special.

The activity concluded with the distribution of Crax and éclairs. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi guided the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club.

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‘Parivartan’ – The Slum Education Programme

27-05-18

27th May, 2018 activity of ‘Parivartan’- the Slum Education Programme, a CSR initiative of ITS, Ghaziabad was an important awareness programme on Nipah virus. Volunteers Aru Bansal and Shiksha Rawat pasted the cut-outs on the board and beautifully presented how Nipah spreads from bats to human beings.

Volunteers of the day – Anurag Kushwaha, Varun Arora, Aru Bansal, Shiksha Rawat, Yogesh Bisht, Bittu Nagvanshi and Hitesh Sharma started the class with the prayer and informed the children about the highlights of the day.

The significant discussion of the day was on ‘Nipah’ virus. Volunteers Aru and Shiksha had brought beautiful cutouts to explain the virus and its cycle. The cutouts were pasted on the board. They included a bat, an apple, a pig and human beings. Initially the children were told what are viruses and bacteria.

The children were also told how this virus got its name. Actually this virus was first identified in the ‘Nipah’ village of Malaysia so it got its name from there. Presently it is widespread in south India especially Kerala.

The symptoms of Nipah were explained for the slum children which included fever, headache, body ache, cold and dull efficiency of mind. In extreme cases, the patient may go into coma and die. The children were told that so far ‘Nipah’ is incurable and fatal. They were told to avoid eating fruits with cuts, bites or the rotten ones. They were also advised to avoid non-veg food presently especially pigs. The children were suggested to consult a doctor immediately if the symptoms appear.

The activity concluded with the distribution of Parle 20-20 biscuits and éclairs. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi accompanied and guided the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club.

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Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey received Next CSO Award

25-05-18

Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey, Director (IT), I.T.S, Mohan Nagar Ghaziabad receives prestigious NextCSO Award of IT Industry on 25th May, 2018 in the annual event of CSO Forum of India and leading Media House 9Dot9. The event was fully supported by Google, CISCO, Microsoft, Dimension Data and other leading IT Companies. The two days event was organized at Hotel Crown Plaza, Greater Noida in which 14 Future CSO’s were declared as winners and awarded with Trophies & Certificates. Dr. Pandey was only representation from Academia. Other winners included – Mr. Satish Asnani (DGM – BHEL), Mr. Subhanil Banerjee (Sr. Manager – IT Infra & Security, ABP), Mr. Kashan Kendre (Sr. Manager – Reliance Industries), Mr. Aditya Khullar (Tech Lead – One97 Communications), Mr. Sanjeev Lamba (Head IT GRC – Uno Minda Group), Ms. Shweta Nair (Sr. Manager – Capagemini), Mr. Ashish Narkar (Global Head of IT Security – TCS), Mr. Vinod Negi (Sr. Chief Manager of Info Security & Risk – Dewan Housing Finance Corp.), Mr. Vaibhav Pendurkar (Head – IS, FIS Global), Mr. Venkateshan Raman (ISM – SBI Life Insurance), Mr. Sandeep Sanyasi (Consultant – Cyber Security – Dell), Mr. Rupen Shah (AGM-IT, Arohan Financial Services) and Mr. Gurvinder Singh (Manager – Engineering, DXC Technology). Details available @ https://www.nextcso.in/winners/2018.

Dr. Pandey received the Awrad and Recognition from Mr. Vishak Raman (Head, Security Business, CISCO – India & SAARC) and Mr. Murtaza Bhatia, Practice Head – Data Centre & Security, Dimention Data. On this occasion leading IT Professionals from Global companies including Google, Microsoft, Dimension data and others. Apart from receiving award, it was a great opportunity to meet, interact and exchange our views on the issues related to Cyber Security with Global Cyber Security Leaders and Experts of global companies.

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Top PRIVATE B-School award to I.T.S Mohan Nagar Ghaziabad

23-05-18

Proud to share that I.T.S- Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad has been awarded with Top PRIVATE B-School in Ranking Survey - 2018 of ELETS-DIgital Learning, A leading Media House of the Country & Asia Pacific in the field of ICT.

The Award was given by Shri Ramesh Mishra, (IAS), Secretary- Higher Education, Government of UP. The Institute has been ranked among Top B-Schools in Ranking Survey-2018 of ELETS, Digital Learning the leading Media House of the Country dedicated to ICT.

The event was attended by leading academicians, Policy makers, Implementing Agencies and others eminent guests. The Award was received by Prof. (Dr.) Sunil Kr Pandey, Director (IT) of the Institute, on behalf of my Institute today on 23rd May, 2018 during UP Education Conclave-2018 at Hotel Taj Vivanta, Lucknow. (Itspgcampus Mohan Nagar, Itsugbbabca Mohannagar) of I.T.S - The Education Group. On this occasion Senior Officials of UP Government, District Magistrates, SDM's, ADM's, BSA etc. of different District of UP were also present. On this occasion some District of UP were also awarded for their exemplary contribution in the field of Education.

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Dr Umang delivered Session at BVICAM

21-05-18

Dr Umang delivered Session on “Routing Protocols for IoT” on 21st May 2018 in in Two Weeks Faculty Development Programme on “Emerging Research Trends in Computer Science and IT” from 14th - 26th May, 2018, organized by IEEE Delhi Section & IIPC (AICTE) of BVICAM, New Delhi, in collaboration with IEEE Computer Society (Delhi Section), CSI Delhi Chapter & ISTE Delhi Section at BVICAM, New Delhi.

The session had witnessed the participation of 40+ young faculty members and researchers from renowned colleges and universities. In this session, various communication technologies and its impact on different real-life applications were discussed. While discussing about proliferation of technologies, a detailed discussion on IoT devices in MANETs, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks & FANETs, IoT based Routing Protocols RPL and its empirical research issues was presented. In addition to this, Introduction of Cisco Packet Tracer, NetSim, its Importance, types of Network Simulators, Requirements and simulation of IoT devices were also explained through demonstration using Cisco products.

 

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Parivartan’ – The Slum Education Programm

20-05-18

20th May, 2018 activity of ‘Parivartan’- the Slum Education Programme, a CSR initiative of ITS, Ghaziabad was a blast of fun and fabulous prizes. On demand of children summer games were organized during which the little players tested their skills to the fullest and enjoyed as never before.

Volunteers of the day – Aditya Pandey, Shreya Mani Tripathi, Aru Bansal, Varun Arora, Rohit Tiwari, Rashi Tyagi, Samina Khatoon, Ankit Jaggi, Arpan Banerjee, Argha Majumdar and Neha Agarwal started the class with the prayer and informed the children about the highlights of the day.

The children were waiting eagerly for this day as they had been told that on this date they would have a chance to participate in the Summer Games. A game with five plastic pins and five rings was put as a task for the children and they had to throw the rings so that they fall on the pins. One by one everyone got one’s chance. Around fifty winners were given fabulous prizes like school bag, Milton water bottle, Plastic Trishul, Plastic Gada, Balls, Uno Cards, Toy Pistols, Air Pencil, Block Games, Bubble makers, Toy train, interesting books and Nestle Maggi packets.

The game and the uproar of competition went so high that the family members of the children, neighbours and passersby also joined in to have fun by watching it live. At the end of the competition, even the PGDM and MBA volunteers also tested their hands on the rings and teased each other with loud laughter and boundless fun.

The activity concluded with the distribution of prizes, Crax Curls and éclairs. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi accompanied and guided the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club.

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Utthan Club Activity

18-05-18

18th May, 2018 activity of Utthan Lab, a CSR initiative of ITS, Ghaziabad was a grand Painting Competition along with a session in Computer Lab and a talk on ‘Bringing Joy in Society’. Volunteers of the day – Shiksha Rawat, Puja Mourya, Aru Bansal, Neha Agarwal and Hitesh Sharma started the day with the brief on the day’s activities and the competition.

The talk of the day was on ‘Bringing Joy to the Society’ during which the children were told to spare more time for the family members and keep good relations with the neighbours. They were told that they should spend more time with friends and family members than on mobile phones. They were also guided that when they go to attend birthday parties, having fun, good memories and strengthening relationship should be the priority not the cost of the gifts exchanged.

The second session of the day was a practical session in the computer labs. The children were taken to Lab 1 and Lab 6 where the task was to explore why storms emerge. Those who found the best answer on internet were felicitated with special prizes.

Drawing and Painting was the competition of the day. Out of around 140 children, 30 were chosen as winners of fabulous prizes like Tiffin Box, Money Bank, Chess, Ludo, Flying discs, Throwing rings, cold-drink bottles and Waffy chocolates. The encouraging presence and address of Director Management Dr. Ajay Kumar boosted the morale of the children. He not only blessed them with his kind words but also felicitated them with prizes and appreciation.

The activity concluded with the snacks and the cold drinks served to all. All the children were gifted with Drawing sheets, sketch pens and salty snacks Crax Curl. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi guided the volunteers and enjoyed the activity as the faculty coordinator of Utthan Lab.

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‘Parivartan’ – The Slum Education Programme

13-05-18

13th May, 2018 activity of ‘Parivartan’- the Slum Education Programme, a CSR initiative of ITS, Ghaziabad was a stormy session on Mother’s Day. The children poured out their heart with the feelings for their mothers. This was soon followed by a real storm as if witnessing and approving the swirling emotions of the innocent children.

Volunteers of the day – Priyanshi Gupta, Kriti, Mansi, Soniya Dhawan and Nitin Kumar started the class with the prayer and informed the children about the highlights of the day. Kriti had brought a packet of chocolates for the children.

The first session of the day was on the ‘Mother’s Day’ during which the children were reminded about the sacrifices that a mother makes throughout her life. She sleeps at night with food, if left, after feeding others; and without food if no food is left, saying that she is not feeling hungry today. How she takes care of children, their health, breakfast, lunch dinner, their future, tastes and expectation – was all discussed with day to day examples. Soon after assembling for the class, the children had already started shouting – today is mother’s day.

Hardly the session on Mother’s Day had completed, the storm came with huge, thick and wide dust all around. The scene was scary. The fire brigade staff came forward to guide and help. All girl volunteers demonstrated indomitable courage and confidence, and extended memorable help and care. They were firm, still and unmoved. Finally the storm surrendered and went away.

The class concluded with the distribution of Crax Curls and éclairs. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi accompanied and guided the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club.

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11th Table Tennis Tournament - 2018

12-05-18

Institute of Technology & Science, Mohan Nagar organized 11th Edition of Table Tennis Tournament “1stGhaziabad District Table Tennis Ranking Tournament for the year 2018, on 12th and 13th May, 2018 at the Sports Complex of Mohan Nagar campus. 302 participants were registered from various schools and colleges of Ghaziabad, such as DPS-Ghaziabad, DPS-Meerut Road, Presidium-Raj Nagar & Chander Vihar, Modern Public School, JKG Public School, Skyline Public School, DDPS, Jaipuria etc.

There were four age categories for male & female in the tournament. These are as follows:

1. Under-21 (Both for boys& girls)

2. Under-18 (Both for boys& girls)

3. Under-15 (Both for boys& girls)

4. Under-12 (Both for boys& girls)

The Tournament was inaugurated by Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group. Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director (Management), Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey, Director (I.T.), Dr. V.N. Bajpai, Dr. D.K. Pandey, Mr. Rishi Raj-Convener of Ghaziabad District Table Tennis Committee and Chief Refree Mr. Vaibhav Khare were present on the occasion. The event was anchored by Dr. D. K. Pandey.

On 13th May, 2018 prizes were distributed among the winners in different age categories. Dr Ajay Kumar, Director (Management) felicitated the prize distribution alongwith Mr. Rishi Raj-Convener of Ghaziabad District Table Tennis Committee. Chief Refree-Mr. Vaibhav Khare Dr. D.K. Pandey, Sports Officer-Mr. RS Chawla, coaches from different schools, parents and other guest were also present in that prize distribution ceremony.

Trophies was distributed among the winners.

Winners were:

Under-12 (Girls):

1. Ms. Ankita Gupta form JKG

2. Ms. Suhani Maheja form JKG

3. Ms. Palak form JKG

Under-12 (Boys):

1. Mr Manan Miglani form JKG

2. Mr. Anish form JKG

3. Mr. Pratham Raina from Ramaprastha School

Under- 15 (Girls):

1. Ms. Ridhi Bhaskar from St. Teresa

2. Ms. Aarti Chaudhary from Skyline

3. Ms. Suhani Maheja form JKG

Under- 15 (Boys):

1. Mr. Akshit Tyagi form JKG

2. Mr. Shivam Chandra form JKG

3. Mr. Saarth Mishra form JKG

Under- 18 (Girls):

1. Ms.Radha Priya Goel form JKG

2. Ms. Aarti Chaudhary from Skyline

3. Ms.Anika Gulta form JKG

Under- 18 (Boys):

1. Mr. Parth Mishra form JKG

2. Mr. Parth Balwale from St. Teresa

3. Mr. Lakshay Joshi form JKG

Under- 21 (Girls):

1. Ms. Radha Priya Goyal form JKG

2. Ms. Savana Gupta form JKG

3. Ms. Kashvi Dixit form JKG

Under- 21 (Boys):

1. Mr. Sarthak Sharma form JKG

2. Mr.Saarth Mishra form JKG

3. Mr. Aniket Malik form Ramprastha School

The event was a huge success and all the participants, coaches, parents, guests enjoyed the two days' event with great enthusiasm.

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PG-IT and UG-Mgmt faculty members attended training programme on “Digitalization of Marketing”

12-05-18

Prof. K.P. Singh, Prof. Smita Kansal, Prof. Abhay Ray and Dr. Namita Dixit attended a two days Training Programme on “Digitalization of Marketing” organized by AKGIM, Ghaziabad on 11th -12th May, 2018. The objective of this programme was to understand the age of digital era as means to enhance digital marketing for an organization and how digital platforms can be effectively used for digital marketing services. 
The training programme was scheduled for two days and there were three sessions each day. On the first day the first session was taken by Prof. Namita N Kumar on Introduction to Digital Marketing. In this session Prof. Kumar discussed about various background and platforms of digital marketing. The second and third sessions were taken by Mr. Sanjay Tiwari, founder of "Net Potatoes" InternetVentures. He is Strategic Advisor &Mentor to Indicus Netlabs (Raftaar. in). He has worked with multinational companies including Leo Burnett,Saatchi & Saatchi, FCB, Brand prophet,ENZ Communications and Indicus Analytics. Mr. Sanjay Tiwari enlighten the basics of digital marketing. He brought that the area of marketing can be considered in two aspects. The first aspect is passive marketing or push marketing and the second aspect is active marketing or pull marketing. Mr. Tiwari continued his talk on how to utilize various social media platforms to create an effective marketing campaigns. Mr. Tiwari also discussed the measurement techniques to obtain results of running campaigns.

The day 2 was started by Mr. Krishna Kumar Singh from Karving Talent Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Singh covered the process of website designing including domain registration, the hosting process and developing and designing of websites on online plateforms.
The next seesion were continued by Mr. Soumitra Chakraborty, Director Resource Management at Carving talent. He has worked with Brands like Alcatel, TATA Lucent and Panasonic. He is associated with NIESBUD, NSDC and Handicraft Mega Cluster Mission (HMCM), as trainer in the area of Digital Literacy, Digital Marketing and e-Commerce. Mr. Chakraborty demonstrated the process of SEO and SMO. He discussed in details about selecting SEO Keywords analysis of SEO and SMO to enhance benefits out of these processes.

The training programme was very useful and we learnt many new things from this programme.

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Special Session on "Mind Renovation for mastering in Life skills for beyond success and growth"

12-05-18

A Session on "Mind Renovation for mastering in Life skills for beyond success and growth was organised at ITS, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad in association with CORE HR IR GROUP & FMA on 12th May, 2018.

Director Management Dr. Ajay Kumar in his inaugural address welcomed the participants and wished them a great learning experience. The session was conducted by Mr. Deepaq K Sharma, CHRO and Director People Practice, DSG Ag Holdings Singapore.

Mr. Sharma shared his thoughts on the purpose of human life and discussed ways to maximize the potential of human mind. He talked about Success, Failure, Karma and Destiny and how to deal with various challenges in life. An exercise was also conducted for the participants to align the mind, body and soul with Sound of Cosmos.

It was a very interactive session wherein lot of queries were raised by the participants. The session was attended by HR professionals from the Industry and Faculty members of ITS Ghaziabad.

At the end of the session, Dr. Ajay Kumar felicitated the speaker and the special guests with mementos and saplings. The session was successfully coordinated by Prof. Shikha Arora.

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Staff Development Programme

07-05-18

Department of Management, at I.T.S Ghaziabad, organized Staff Development Program on 7th May 2018. The session was conducted on "Employees Assessment and Engagement" for the staff members from administration, registrar office and IT Department. Program was addressed and conducted by Dr. M. K. Jha, Professor at I.T.S Ghaziabad.

The major objective of this program was focused on understanding personality traits, interpersonal skilsl and other related soft skills of employees and suggesting them tips for self development and transformation for insuring higher degree of engagement, participation and commitment with organization and system.

Program started with deliberation of role, significance and contribution of Staff members in any service organization, importance of soft skills and personality traits of an individual employee in successful completion of roles and responsibilities assigned to them.

For this purpose workshop was also organized in classroom as well as in computer lab for assessing individual employees' characteristics and personality traits for future developments and active engagement with the system and organization.

All the participants showed great enthusiasm during the session.

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