Articles in Demonetisation

​ It finally came down to doing a well-settled bank job against an MBA from the prestigious DoMS, IIT Roorkee. And that too during these turbulent times for the Indian market after GST and Demonetisation. However, MBA was a dream in the backburner and I felt it was the time I go for it after […]

XLRI BM interview experience Centre- XLRI slot- 1.45pm date- 4/03/2017 XAT score- 99.53 Gk score- 43.xx Gd topic– Innovation is the best insurance against irrelevance. Gd was nice. Everyone spoke. We had already decide to maintain decorum and to come up worth criteria before putting forward any argument. Spoke for 7-8 times Pi experience (30 […]

After the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016 results were declared on January 9, 2017, other MBA entrance exam results were also out. This meant a hectic schedule for students had started. Many MBA colleges are conducting their Group Discussion/Personal interview (GDPI) rounds now. Students shared their GDPI experiences on PaGaLGuY. Here is a glimpse of […]

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget 2017 at the Parliament today. He allotted Rs. 1,30,215 crores to Education and Healthcare sector this year, which is the fourth highest in the overall Budget followed by Infrastructure, Transport and Social sectors. PaGaLGuY spoke to students from different sections and gathered their views about the Budget […]

There are some group discussion topics that are important for this year which students should prepare on: Demonetisation and its Impact on the Indian Economy Use of Aadhar can revolutionalise India It is time for reservations to be phased out India’s foreign policy lacks direction India vs China- who will be the next superpower Cricket […]

With CAT 2016 results out on January 9, those with a high percentile have their attention focused towards conquering the next hurdle, which is the Group Discussion and Personal Interview (GDPI) round. Candidates who’ll be able to crack this level will  finally realise their dream of gaining entry into the country’s most prestigious chain of […]

Agriculture was at the centre-stage of priority sectors for the government in 2016, upstaged only at the fag-end of the year by the demonetisation drive of the government. Significantly two consecutive droughts did not dampen the indomitable spirit of Indian farmers who, as per the fourth advance estimates for 2015-16 crop year, produced 252.22 million […]

​ Virtual Payment Address (VPA)It is a virtual address which links a user’s identity with his/her bank account. So, you can send/receive money by sharing your virtual payment address with any merchant site and make a payment. This eliminates the need to share private and confidential information like mobile number, bank account number or IFSC […]

People standing outside HDFC Bank in Mumbai last week.   The frenzy that demonetisation brought to newsrooms slowly shifted to banks as the reality of demonetisation became more clear. At forefront of the whole exercise were bank employees who, on one hand, must follow government directives and, on the other, face the displeasure expressed by […]

It was the strangest of places to feel like an engineer – standing outside a bank waiting for my turn to exchange money. Just like the thorough-bred engineer – who is told in no uncertain terms – that he is no prized catch for MBA institutes, the bank queue is not a place for those […]