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Enthusiasm filled the scene
completely. Even the scorching sun did not dampen the
spirits and the sense of achievement of our student
managers. The ceremony started with the traditional
lighting of the lamp and saraswati vandana. It was followed
by the Director’s report. Our director, Dr. Anwar
Ali, submitted the Director’s report. In his report
he traced the heights the institute has achieved in
the short run and highlighted the future plans. He also
recalled the great support extended by the top management,
especially the Chairman and the vice-chairman towards
IMT Nagpur. IMT Nagpur also places on record the support
and cooperation extended by the Burdwan University,
especially the Vice-Chancellor Dr. Malik and the Registrar,
Dr. Dan graced the occasion as the representative of
the Burdwan University.
In his annual report the Director,
IMT Ghaziabad, Dr B S Sahay, highlighted the progress
made by the institute in the last year which he called
“a very exciting and productive one” in
which IMT witnessed a brisk pace of overall growth and
a renewed vigour in its pursuit of becoming a business
school of international repute. He touched upon some
of the steps taken to ensure the highest academic rigor
and discipline. These include recruitment of highly
qualified and well-known faculty, restructuring of the
course curriculum, offering new and contemporary elective
courses, introducing on-line learning and teaching,
starting four centres of excellence, research and publications,
modernizing IT infrastructure, upgrading state-of-the-art
library, extending international linkages, executive
development programmes, and alumni relations. He also
gave a detailed report of IMT Ghaziabad in terms of
faculty, students, research, executive training programmes.
He informed the gathering of the first international
campus of IMT coming up in Dubai and that IMT was the
first Indian Business School to get licensure from the
Ministry of Higher Education, Government of UAE. He
informed that MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive MBA
(Part-Time) programmes would be offered at the Dubai
campus starting from the forthcoming academic session.
After the Directors’ report,
the Chairman, delivered an awe inspiring speech, in
which he highlighted the opportunities that existed
in the new India and his own targets and goals he had
set for the Indian industry. He asked the students to
play an active part in making India a developed country
by the year 2020.
This was followed by the speech of
Mr. Ratan Tata. In his speech, he asked the student
managers to dream big, do big and achieve big. Mr. Raman
Sharma was awarded the gold medal and Mr. Vipul Mittal
was awarded the Silver medal for their academic achievements,
by the Chief Guest. This was followed by the moment
each student was waiting for. Mr. Kamal Nath, Chairman
of the institute, awarded the degrees to each student
personally. This was really a proud moment for each
one of the student.
With that, the convocation ceremony
came to a close with the return of the convocation procession. |
