BIMTECH organises Convocation dayGreater Noida, October 8
In an attempt to celebrate the momentous day of conferring the degrees to the students who had graduated from the Institute in 2007, Birla Institute of Management Technology organized a grand event on Oct 7, 2007. The Convocation day was marked by the presence of more than 150 students who had just entered into the professional arena.
Dr. C. Rangrajan, Former Governor of RBI and Chairman Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India was also present on the occasion along with the faculty members and students of the ongoing batches. Dr. C. Rangrajan delivered the convocation address on the scheduled day and gave the students delightful words of encouragement.
"I must count the fact that India at sixty is a nation of young people. There is an air of hope. "The demographic dividend" is within our reach - if only we empower our youth with skills and capabilities. Many years of interacting with the bright young persons, like the ones that we have here before us, leaves me in no doubt that we suffer from no "talent gap" at all. What we need to create collectively with teamwork and consensus, are opportunities for "inclusive growth" where the fruits of progress are shared by all sections of our society. Non-inclusive growth leaving out large sections of our population, the urban-rural divide and the uneven growth of different regions of India are potentially dangerous for our national unity. Measures need to be taken to redress these imbalances, he said."
Dr. Rangarajan with such a long and distinguished track record as an academic, public servant and thought leader, has been the recipient of myriad awards, some of which are Padma Vibhushan in 2002, Award for Economics (Financial Express Award) in 1998, Finance Man of the Decade (Bombay Management Association) in 1998, Award of Excellence in Finance (Bank of India) in 1998 and many other awards.
Talking about Bimtech's growth as a B-school with excellent infrastructure and for getting rank 12 in outlook survey 2007, he congratulated the students for their academic competency and stressed the need of such institutes to strengthen management education in order to make India able to face global competition.
The program began at 5:00 PM with an academic procession and welcome address by the Chairman of the Institute. He also talked about the illustrious lineage and conventions of the Birla name. Dr. Harivansh Chaturvedi Director, Bimtech also graced the occasion with his presence and encouraging words. He also presented the progress reports of the institute's achievements in the last year and also mentioned the steps taken by the college in instilling thought leadership qualities in the students as a part of the curriculum. Stressing the relevance of our programmes in business management, international business and retail, he said "Business Today and OUTLOOK have recently positioned BIMTECH at 10th and 12th ranks amongst private business schools in the country. I am excited and delighted to share with you that our long standing exercise of restructuring our programmes and syllabi revision of all programmes has attracted the attention of the appraisers. We have stood first in the country in the re-structuring and revision of curriculum amongst all the B-Schools."
BIMTECH is recognized as pioneer in post-graduate level education in Insurance and Retail. The AICTE has approved three sectoral programmes of our Institute in 2006, as soon it commenced giving approvals for such sectoral management post-graduate programmes under their revised regulations. Since then we have all of our two years' post-graduate programmes approved by the AICTE. Bimtech's collaboration with both Indian and foreign business schools as well as with the industry have given it more spread. Bimtech has also contributed with our research outputs to entities such as the World Bank, the Bank for International Settlement, European Union etc and is also involved in research projects related to the issues in micro-finance, micro-insurance, agri-business and entrepreneurship.
The chairperson also delivered diplomas to the students of 2005-07 batch of courses PGDM, PGDIB, PGDRM and PGDIRM. Certificate of Merit were also given on this day to the First Rank Holders of the respective departments. Those who received gold medals included .
These students received immense appreciation and applause for their academic performance. The event was charged with enthusiasm and excitement and the elation was visible in everyone right from the faculty to the students.
The evening ended in a true convocation day style with students throwing their caps in the air and a group photograph.
