Friday, July 4, 2008

FLO’s top three agendas in the silver jubilee year

Plantation of trees, a project to save the girl child and adopting villages to empower women were the top three agendas of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) celebrating their silver jubilee this year, on Friday in New Delhi.

Addressing the media persons here today, Ms. Anuradha Goel, president of FLO said, “The ‘Save the Girl Child’ project, to be launched on July 23 by Renuka Chaudhry, union minister for women& child development, has been designed to raise the awareness levels among women, children and the men folk in the villages and semi urban areas of the detrimental effext of the declining sex ratios in various parts of the country.”

Goel also stated that this year FLO would plant 2,500 trees throughout the country and make individuals become tree-custodians and impart training on how to nurture and care for tree saplings.

On how FLO intends to adopt villages, she added, “Our holistic approach would be to involve families into a community care, where women will be joined by children and men in the making of a model village.”

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The 4th Working Managers’ Programme inaugurated at IIML’s Noida Campus

IIM Lucknow’s Noida Campus inaugurated its 4th batch of Working Managers’ Programme (WMP), which was launched in 2005 as a three-year part time program, in Noida on Tuesday. The dean of the Noida campus- Prof. Punam Sahgal, the chairman of the WPM-Prof. Amit Mukherjee, the chairman of MDP and CIC- Prof. Ajay Singh and other faculty members were also present here on the occasion.

While addressing the 68 students enrolled for the current session, Dr Singh said, “ Our focus is on imparting the management knowledge to an experienced professional that allows him to become a top-notch manager.” Later, Prof. Mukherjee explained, “The WMP will help its students to become management leaders and change agents to take leadership roles in the global arena. The program has proved to be very successful in providing practical and advance management education to the middle and senior level managers while on the job.”

Dr Singh also made a mention about introducing dual degree programs, with North American business schools and IIMs, in the field of finance and executive management. Talking of steep rise in application forms for this course, Dr Singh added, “We thought there is no other place better than Delhi and NCR for tailor-made programs to the business managers. So, whatever we do here has the IIM Lucknow’s brand.”

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