On the behalf of I.T.S- Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad; Prof. Alok Singh has participated among the elite galaxy of eminent scholars and presented his research paper titled “A Critical Review on Supply Chain Performance Evaluation of Perishable Products in India”. More than 100 quality research papers across the world were submitted by different area experts in their different domain of expertise. The conference was inaugurated with benign presence of Prof. Pankaj Chandra (Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University), Prof. Peeyush Mehta (IIM Calcutta), Mr. Aamir Akhtar (CEO, Denim Fabrics of Arvind Ltd.) and Prof. Devanath Tirupati (Dean, Amrut Mody School of Management).

This three day international conference was organized by Society of Operations Management at Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad.

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The course materials included:
A practical workbook: Android Developer Fundamentals Course—Practicals
• A concept reference: Android Developer Fundamentals Course—Concepts
• Slide decks (for optional use by instructors)
• Videos of lectures (for reference by instructors and developers)
Android Developer Fundamentals includes five teaching units:
• Unit 1: Get started
• Unit 2: User experience
• Unit 3: Working in the background
• Unit 4: All about data
• Unit 5: What's next
Unit 1: Get started
This unit covers installing Android Studio, understanding project structure, building first app, creating activities, testing apps, and using the Android Support Library.First, One can deploy a simple Hello World app. One can go on to create an app with a simple activity, and then One can create a multi-screen app that passes data between activities. One can also learn how to use the Android Support Library to provide backward-compatibility with earlier versions of the Android system for app.
Unit 2: User experience
This unit covers how to get input from the user, implement navigation strategies, use themes and styles, test user interface, and follow Material Design principles.
One can create apps that use menus and tabs for navigation, and input controls such as spinners and picker dialogs to get information from the user. One can learn how to extract resources to create a style from an instance of a user interface element. One can write an app that displays a word list in a recycler view (and One can learn why it's better to use a recycler view than a plain scrolling list).One can also build a score-keeping app to explore Material Design guidelines.
Unit 3: Working in the background
This unit covers how to do background work, how to schedule tasks, and how to trigger events. It covers the performance implications of executing work in the background, as well as best practices for reducing battery drain. One can learn how Android determines which apps to keep running and which to stop when resources run low.
One can write an app that connects to the Internet in a background thread to find the author of any book. One can also build apps that send notifications and schedule tasks, and One can learn how to implement scheduling functionality for apps that run on earlier versions of Android.
Unit 4: All about data
This unit is all about data. It covers how to store data, update it, query it, load it, and make it available outside app.
One can build a word list and store the words in a database. To understand content providers, One can build a minimal content provider app. Then One can add a content provider to the word list app to provide an interface for querying and updating the list. One can finish by creating a separate app that uses a loader to load the word list via the content provider.
Unit 5: What's next?
This unit covers permissions, app performance, and security best practices. It explains how to run a trial of app so family and friends can try it out.
This unit also introduces some of the many additional Android features that you can add to your app, and explains how to publish your app in Google Play. 
It was a great learning experience with hand on lab instructions and practical work in android developer studio.

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In hersession, she explained about Bigdata. She said that Big Data basically refers to huge volume of data that cannot be stored and processed using traditional approach within the given time frame. She briefed about maximum bigdata allowed by gmail/yahoomail and social media like Facebook, Twitter etc. Dr Doreen talked about Hadoop, component and its development framework. She has shown practical demonstration of Hadoop by taking practical examples. Further Dr, Robin has explained Apache Hadoop Ecosystem, Pig(Scripting Language), Machine Learning(Mahout), Hive(Query), Sqoop, Rest and ODBC etc. She has also briefed about Skybox, yarn, flume, JSON and HBase.
She provided a detailed insight with her recent research and latest technologies of Hadoop2. She also explained various example. She has mentioned that Facebook alone receives around 500 terabytes of data every day. Twitter processes around 400 million tweets each day. Linkendln and google receives tens of terabytes of data on a daily basis. Youtube each minute around 48 hours of fresh videos are uploaded to youtube. She also spoke about How much volume of data is being stored and presented on these sites. 
This event was in the series of Invited talks by national and international speakers of repute by Dept of IT of the institute 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.
Dr Doreen Robin also interacted with faculties and answered the queries raised during the session.
It was wonderful learning experience for IT Faculties.

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The panel discussion by three distinguished panellists following the report presentation was chaired by Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director& CE, ICRIER. The panellist Dr. Pronav Sen of International Growth Centre, threw light on issues related to fiscal deficit, micro finance and taxation. The panellist Dr. Himanshu of JNU, talked about Government’s recent initiatives which have served to bridge the inequality gap. Mr. Sandeep Chachhra of Action Aid discussed issues relating to industry requirement. This panel discussion was followed by vibrant question answer and comment session. Dr. Rajat Kathuria gave the concluding remarks.

It was time again for nostalgia, as 519 ex-students of management programmes (PGDM, MBA & BBA) from different batches of Institute of Technology & Science, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad gathered to cherish old memories. It is a testimony of growing networking among alumni and strong bonding between the institute and its alumni.

Programme was inaugurated with lamp lighting before Maa Saraswati by Dr Ajay Kumar, Director (Management), Dr Sunil Kumar Pandey, Director (IT) & Chairperson- Alumni, Dr Vidya Sekri, Director (UG Campus), Prof Nancy Sharma, Vice Principal-UG, management programme Chairpersons Dr V N Bajpai (PGDM), Dr D K Pandey (MBA) and Prof Pawan Kumar (BBA) and Prof Durba Roy, CRC Head.

Senior alumni of PGDM, MBA & BBA courses were felicitated for their achievements in their respective fields and being connected with their Alma-mater as a true brand ambassador. Senior alumni spoke about college life and shared their past experiences. 06 alumni of 2004-06, the first batch of MBA programme, joined alumni meet and shared their experiences and good wishes.

It was then followed by number of mind blowing performances by students including Ganesh Vandana by UG students, Group Dance on fusion songs by PG students and Bharat Natyam.

Celebrity performance was one of the main attractions of this year alumni meet. Bollywood playback singer and performer Manoj Jaiswal (MJ), one of the most versatile singers and his team sang many songs with such distinction, that left the listeners spellbound. The effortless transition across the entire range of old and new songs without any strand of strain, flawless emotions forced the audience to tap their feet. The electrifying performance by lady singer Ms. Bhumika Malik raised the heat and put the stage on fire on this cold winter evening. This nigh also witnessed the Teaser release of his Bollywood album named – ILTIJA. The presence of Shri Surinder Sood, Director (PR) made this release , a life time memory.

There were games and quizzes organized for everyone to take part and win prizes as well. The day’s programme had a lot of exciting events lined up to raise the nostalgia one notch up.

The excitement augmented to a joyful high when the alumni and faculty joined the festivities together to strengthen the bond among them. Colors of joy, happiness, togetherness could be seen in alumni as well as faculty members.

The gala dinner was organised where alumni across batches and sectors, faculty and administrative body members and current students interacted with each other. The major takeaway from the event was the satisfaction all attendees had after meeting their friends and their alma mater.

Sansmaran -2017 is all about refreshing memories and strengthening bond between alumni and its Alma-mater. A time of the year to create an everlasting relationship and to cherish the old ones. Everyone left with not just tapping feet but the pulsating togetherness of what they went for.

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The workshop was attended by around 100 international participants. The workshop had very renowned resource persons including Prof (Dr). K K Biswas(Rtd. Professor, IIT/D); Prof. (Dr) Deepak Garg, Dr. Rishav Singh, Dr. Sridhar Swami Nathan, and Dr Shubham Jain.

The workshop had a plentiful of practical exposure on various tools for Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning including programming languages like R & Python, and tools like Anaconda, Tensorflow, Stax, Cassandra, etc.

During the workshop, we also got the opportunity to visit the AI lab of Bennett University. They have procured nVidia GPU Supercomputer for Deep Learning and other complex tasks of AI. It was an amazing experience to see how Super Computer solves it all.

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The next activity was TEAM BUILDING Game (Step out from your castle). There were about 10 teams of 4 members each. This was a very engaging learning cum fun activity based on Team building and Leadership.

The winners of Poster-making competition were:

· First prize for poster making - Rubiya Nur , Nikhil and Priyanshi.

· Runner up prize - Ankit Pal, Atay Rasool Khan , Shiva Shah.

Winners of Team Building Game were Rubiya Nur, Fahima Khatoon, Priyanshi Gupta and Rishabh Jain.

Winners were awarded with exciting prizes and certificates.

The activity was organized under the guidance of Library Club Mentor Prof. Shikha Arora and was conducted by the members of The Reader’s Café- Library club successfully.

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At the end of the talk, a short quiz was conducted. Those who responded correctly to the questions asked were felicitated with on the spot prizes.
The children got a sweet and pleasant surprise on this day. Ms. Aanchal Grover, a passed out student of PGDM (she had gone placed and married last year), had sent Motichoor Ke Laddu and colourful balloons for all the children on the occasion of her birthday. The children were overjoyed to have got these delicacies and gift and sang the birthday song with full zeal for their Aanchal Didi.

The class concluded with the distribution of Parle G biscuits and éclairs among the children. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi accompanied and guided the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club.

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Sh. Surinder Sood, Director (PR), I.T.S – The Education Group welcomed the Alumni and expressed his happiness over large participation of Alumni in Alumni Meet.
Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman - I.T.S The Education Group, while addressing the gathering welcomed the Alumni and said that Alumni Meet is an event where our Alumni get an opportunity and refresh old memories at institute, to meet their own batch mates, to their juniors and above all to visit their institute from where they started their professional journey of their career.

This year the experience sharing by Alumni of Senior Batches was also introduced, on the advice of Honorable Vice Chairman Sir. Some of the Alumni of senior batches of MCA, MIS and BCA shared their experience and addressed the gathering. It was well taken and appreciated by Alumni.

In his address, the Director (IT) & Chairperson – Alumni said that every year increased number of participation of Alumni from various courses in such meets shows the love, affection and strong emotional bonding between Institute and it’s passed out students. This was followed by a lucky draw which was organized for the alumni based on the information (Visiting Cards) provided by them at the time registration in the meet. Lucky Draw were drawn and awards were given by Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman- I.T.S The Education Group, Shri Surinder Sood, Director(PR), I.T.S The Education Group, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director(IT), Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director(UG), Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director(Management), Prof. Nancy Sharma, Vice Principal(UG Campus). 

With an objective of bringing our old students back to institute and provide them a platform for reviving old memories at the institute, meeting with their faculty members & own classmates, sharing and exchanging views, ideas and experiences, every year in month of December, institute organizes this Alumni Meet. Every year increased participation of alumni from all the batches from all the courses of the institute is evidence to the emotional attachment and connects of the students with the institute. The uniqueness of this year’s meet was the presence of alumni from all the batches of various courses of the institute, who came to institute after 14 or 16 years after they passed out from institute.

Towards the end of the program, Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director UG thanked the alumni for their participation and support in Institutional activities. She also thanked to the members of Alumni Cell for their sincere efforts and rigorous follow-up that made this event a success. The event concluded with DJ followed by Dinner.
Total about 500+ Alumni of the Institute with their spouse and kids attended the meet and made the event a grand success.

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1. Nomination - I was nominated by Shri Upkar Singh, Director (Technology) - Fidelity Global Services
2. Feedback from 03 Persons (01 Colleague and 02 persons from Industry). My Feedback was taken from following:
Colleague: Prof. Sauresh Mehrotra; Industry: 1. Shri Ravinder Arora - CTO, IRIS Software, 2. Shri Amit Chaudhary, Co-Founder- InMorphis
3. Personality & Leadership Test
4. Managerial Style Test
5. Interviews by 02 Industry Leaders - 1. Shri Kamal Karnatak, Vice President, RJ Corp on 31.09.2017
2. Shri Kiran Chandra, Vice President – Technology, Johnson & Johnson 13.10.2017
6. To take a Session on Pocket CIO Technology Framework - I took the Session at Hotel Pull Man, Aerocity, IGI Airport, New Delhi 
7. Combining the Score, Feedback and Session conducted, Interviews Results finally results were announced.

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MathWorks Inc.

Following was the broad coverage of the session:

1. Design and Deployment of Flight Controllers for a palm-sized quadcopter

2. Model-Based Design workflow for PARROT­­® Minidrones

3. Usage of Simulink Coder™ to log flight data and access the auto generated C code

4. Introduction to various Support Packages for add-on tools for flight simulation

The event was graced by the presence of Director IT Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Vice Principal UG Campus Ms. Nancy Sharma and the Faculty Members from PG & UG IT Department.

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After this Ghum Hote Bhajan Aur GhazalShri Sanjay Sinha's Book was released by Shri Neelesh Misra.

Mr. Neelesh Mishra- a renowned writer, lyricist and story teller was also invited in the session. He has recited one story on the stage in the programme Ek Kissa Sunao
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Ms. Anjana Om Kashyap - well known leading & respected Journalist, and News Anchor at Aajtak Channel interacted face to face with our MCA students. It really inspires young students to meet people who have created their own place & respect in society & excelling professionally.Students were very happy and come forward to meet and speak such legends.

Seeing face to face and Listening the established artists and legends like Shri Anup Jalota, Shri Talat Aziz, Shri Prasoon Joshi, Shri Hansraj Hans inspires everyone.

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The Talk of the Day was on ‘Health, Hygiene and Winters’ during which the children were told about the pros and cons of each weather with special emphasis on winters. The significance and precautions for winters were elaborated for the children with examples. The PGDM volunteer George told them that bathing should not be avoided in winters too unless one is sick. He told them that irregular washing of hair may lead to dandruff. The children were also informed of the benefits of Tulsi, Ginger, fruits, jiggery, green vegetables and other healthy stuff available during winters which gives us warmth, nutrients and countless other good effects.
The children were also told that bathing with hot water may lead to various health issues like – drop in blood pressure, dizziness, nausea, dry skin, wrinkles, hair-fall etc. Therefore, we should bathe with lukewarm water only.
At the end of the talk, a short quiz was conducted. Those who responded correctly to the questions asked were felicitated with on the spot prizes.
The class concluded with the distribution of Crax Curls and éclairs among all the children. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi accompanied and guided the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club.

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The Chief Guest of inaugural session of this event was Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Hon’ble Vice President, India and the Chief Guest of Second session was Mr. Shiv Pratap Shukla, Hon’ble Minister of State, Ministry of Finance , Government of Inda said that the small entrepreneurs across India deserve greater recognition for their significant contribution to the Indian economy. He also said, The SME sector plays a very important role in Indian economy, be it boosting growth rate or giving a push to exports and manufacturing. He also addressed the different schemes of Government of India about the funding to the SME sector and its supporting channels.
This conference was very useful and motivating a medium to make network with new companies and this conference was also useful for our students to know the different schemes of funding for SMEs to become successful entrepreneur.
I am attaching a copy of day-1 programme schedule for the ready reference .

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Expert deliberations focused upon differing priorities for Public Sector Organizations globally, how to build and sustain a world class PSU in India, Coaching and Mentoring as tools for succession planning, attracting and retaining millennial in PSUs, ways to leverage CSR for building the PSU employer brand and make use of HR technology to improve HR processes in PSUs. The conference also explored the role played by PSUs in Nation building and their contribution towards sustainability efforts.

The speakers emphasized on ensuring balance among technology, decisions and people for any organizational development. People need to be developed in order to address the paucity of skilled workforce. PSUS can’t imitate private sector practices or what other Public sector enterprises are doing in western countries. They need to explore their own policy frameworks and there should be no hesitation in adopting any best practice (no matter from where it comes) which has already delivered the result.

A special talk delivered by expert from Deloitte, Mr Nitin Razdan widened the participants’ perspective related to the future of work and the evolving role of learning organizations. The second day post lunch session of conference gave an opportunity to participants to experience music and understand key business lessons with expertise of Ms Sunita Bhuiyan. The sessions also focused upon how to drive change in the organization within limitations by understanding the analogy of evolving music with same seven notes and rhythm.

Panel discussions, special talks and group sessions at the conference enriched the participants with current HR practices, challenges and possible solution in PSU sector.