Prameya (issue 21)

NEEV 2021 Issue 21

Foreword ‘Wehaan” - ‘Neev 2021’- the Foundation Fortnight at WeSchool, Bengaluru was held virtually during the COVID time. The new batch of students were welcomed to WeSchool family with an understanding of the challenging external environment and our internal strength to overcome those challenges.

Towards the end of the year 2021, WeSchool Bengaluru organized a National Conference on “Catalysing Change and Innovation in Women EntreLeadership India Perspectives” in hybrid mode in the campus.

Prameya issue 20 is published along with Prameya issue 21 due to COVID induced disruptions.

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Articles Foundation Fortnight Neev 2020/22

Editorial Team Editor

Ms. Ishani Chakraborty

National Conference Beat The Heat - Rotaract Club

Magazine Design

Student Team Disha Gowani Rishabh Wadhwa

Mr. William Dayabaran

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Event | National Conference

National conference on “Catalysing Change and Innovation in Women EntreLeadership- India Perspectives”, 29th and 30th November 2021 The National conference on “Catalysing Change and Innovation in Women EntreLeadership- India Perspectives” was organised on 29th and 30th November 2021. It was conducted on Hybrid mode where few delegates and students attended the sessions in the online mode and few from the campus. A series of technical sessions were delivered by experts which gave a lot of insights to the audience. The paper presentations gave an opportunity for the delegates to present their cases/ research work and get valuable suggestions from the jury members. The convenors of the conference were Dr Sonia Mehrotra and Dr Madhumita Guha Majumdar.

Group Photograph @ National conference on “Catalysing Change and Innovation in Women EntreLeadership- India Perspectives”, 29th and 30th November 2021

Day 1 – 29th November 2021 09.15 – 09.50am: Pre-conference session Performing Art- Evolving Entreleader QualitiesMs. Aruna Ganesh Ram Artistic DirectorVisual Respiration Head- Innovations in Inclusion- ICPL Ms Aruna is a theatre artist and a successful entrepreneur. She began her session with a quote “Going against the tide, to find the niche’ to explain about her journey of life in discovering and pursuing her passion. According to her, “Finding your niche “is not to find the customer base but to create an Experience and that’s her USP. Her main focus was to give the best experience to the audience who enters her theatre. She strongly believes in Sensory marketing (touch, see and smell her brand), Collaboration, Diversity and Inclusion etc. She introduced the new 4E’s of marketing which she follows- Experience, enabling, Entry/exit, engagement.

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Day 1 – 29th November 2021 Dr Anil Rao Paila, Dr Madhavi Lokhande, Dr Radha Ramanujan, Dr Sonia Mehrotra and Dr Madhumita Guha Majumdar were present on the stage.

10.10 am to 10.15am – Setting the Context – Dr Sonia Mehrotra: Dr Sonia elaborated about the conference theme and spoke about the sessions on entrepreneurship and leadership that were planned for the 2 days.

10.15 to 10.30 am- Inaugural Address Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe Group Director, We School: Dr Uday Salunkhe, at the outset congratulated the convenors on organising the conference on women entrepreneurship. He spoke about how women create the social impact through their entrepreneurship skills. He also opines that women should be provide with the right eco system, support and encouragement to work and achieve their goals.

10.15 to 10.30 am- Inaugural Address Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe Group Director, We School: Dr Uday Salunkhe, at the outset congratulated the convenors on organising the conference on women entrepreneurship. He spoke about how women create the social impact through their entrepreneurship skills. He also opines that women should be provide with the right eco system, support and encouragement to work and achieve their goals.

10.30 to 11.30: Plenary Session Equity and Financing Entrepreneurial Decisions- Ms. Radha RamanujanChief Financial Officer - Aliaxis SA – Ashirvad Pipes.

Dr Anil Rao Paila welcomed the gathering and Dr Soumya introduced the chief guest. Ms Radha Ramanujan is a panel member of the committee which evaluates the start-up projects. According to her the conception of idea is very important. She explained about the evaluation process: step 1: To evaluate the idea and about the founder. Step 2: Raise money from Friends and family. Step 3: to approach Angel investors. Step 4: Crowd funding. Step 5 : Venture capitalists. Step 6: Private equity and the last step: to approach banks for loans. She also spoke about the different programs run by the government to support start-ups such as ‘Nithi Ayog’, ‘Unnati program ‘etc.

11.45 to 12.15: Trivia time- Quiz was conducted by Dr Hema Dore Swamy for the offline participants and Dr Jairaj for the online participants.

12.15 to 12.45: Plenary session- Intraprenuership and stakeholder Management- electronic city storyMs Rama N S, CEO Elcita.

Ms Rama has worked in many corporate companies including Infosys and now heads the Elcita. According to her, Entrepreneurship is not about starting a company and making profit but about how we want to make our life and others’ lives vibrant. There exists an entrepreneur in all of us and we can use those skills to contribute for the growth of the company in which we are working. She also spoke about the establishment of E-city in 1978 by Karnataka State Electronic Development Corporation Limited, about the millstones of Elcita from 1991 to 2021. Her words were inspiring for most of the women entrepreneurs and students who aspired to become entrepreneurs in the future.

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12.45 to1.30 pm- Founder- Next in Advisory Partners- Mr.Rajiv Prakash- Board of Directors Mr. Rajiv Prakash spoke on Role of Mentors in entrepreneurship development and mentoring as the powerful resource , He mentioned that the main purpose of a mentor is to help entrepreneurs with specific questions by sharing their knowledge and contacts harvested through their years of experience. Therefore, a mentor must not only fulfil their executive functions, but also understand the process and evolution of the project.

He also emphasized on Roles and contributions of the mentor Some of the teachings, tasks and knowledge which a mentor shares are: • Their work experience • Brings a good reputation and credibility to the business • Information from their own journey • Advice in a strategic plan as well as operative • Orientation in the resolution of problems • Can support in the commercial work of the enterprise • Motivation in difficult times • Help to establish goals • Identify resources • Help to professionalize the management: business culture, process, recruiting talent, etc.

• Developing and sharing contacts, and therefore can help open doors He also made it a point that the mentor-mentee relationship is a process based on trust and effort invested by both parties. You can’t expect that your mentor will magically remove all the obstacles on your way or remedy all your mistakes. The mentor’s advice will be effective only if you’re willing to listen, learn, and implement. Be honest about your business’ positive and negative sides, your flaws and capabilities, as well as your fears.

2.30 to 2.45 pm : Trivia time- Quiz was conducted by Dr Hema Doreswamy for offline participants and Dr Jairaj Nair for the online participants.

2.45 to 3.30 pm: Gender Mainstreaming, Governance and Leadership -Smt. Roopa D Moudgil - IPS , MD-KSHDCL D. Roopa Emphasized on “Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”, and the flagship Generation Equality campaign, which calls for women’s right to decision-making in all areas of life, equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end all forms of violence against women and girls, and health-care services that respond to their needs. As it is widely known that women stood as front line warriors during Covid-19 in the capacity of health care workers, caregivers, innovators, community organizers and effective national leaders to combat the pandemic, it can be opined without an iota of doubt that women possess tremendous potential of ushering in positive changes in the society as well as organisations.

She made it a point that women leaders and women’s organizations have demonstrated their skills, knowledge and networks in their field. Today there is more acceptance than ever before that women bring different experiences, perspectives and skills to the table, and make irreplaceable contributions to decisions, policies and laws that work better for all. The growth of women leadership has not been a cake walk. Most of the women entrepreneurs in India have witnessed mammoth challenges in setting up their business entities. In this section, experiences of some of the leading women entrepreneurs who by their sheer determination, dedication, perseverance and patience have attained astral heights in their business pursuits.

She ended her speech with a note that No doubt, women leadership has grown prodigiously but more initiatives needs to be undertaken for fostering women’s leadership and to witness it attaining the pinnacle of excellence.

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Dr. Anil Rao Paila, Sr. Dean & Director – WeSchool, falicitating Smt. Smt. Roopa D Moudgil - IPS , MD-KSHDCL

Participants Attending National conference on “Catalysing Change and Innovation in Women EntreLeadership- India Perspectives”

3.30pm to 4.15: Bank of Baroda & TGIHM Demo session Mr Ashwin, employee of Bank of Baroda gave a session on Cash management services of the bank.

4.30 to 6.30pm: Paper presentations.

Day 2- Tuesday, 30th November 2021 8.30 to 10.30 am: The day 2 of the conference started with the paper presentations by the delegates and students.

10.30-11.15 am- Plenary Session- Smt. Isha Pant, IPS- Deputy Commissioner of Police, SE Bengaluru: Existentialism –Evolving and Expanding Identities Smt.Isha Pant was introduced by Dr.Soumya at the start of the session. Isha Pant, an IPS, moderated the discussion and underlined the role of women as change makers in modern society. She also discussed the roles and duties that women have shared throughout ancient times, as well as how women have demonstrated courage and power in times of need. The relevance of leadership and creativity talents demonstrated by diverse women in ambitious young brains was also addressed by the speaker. Speaker mentioned that since ancient times, there has been a lack of women in modern bureaucracies. It is not uncommon for women to be underrepresented in national services. Ms.Isha narrated her own inspirational life path and also mentioned about gender stereotypes and what may be done to change them..

11.30 am-12.30 pm- Panel Discussion: Follow your Passion or Follow your Blisters- Ms. Barkha Malpani (fouder TGIHM), Ms.Anitha Shankar –Founder AstuEco, Dr.Geetha Bali –CSO –Cell Space Research Foundation,Moderator- Dr.Sonia Mehrotra Dr.Sonia Mehrotra began the discussion by emphasizing the necessity of pursuing one's passion and turning it into a career. Blisters are important for living a meaningful and full life, according to Dr. Sonia. Dr. Sonia gave a quick introduction to all the panelists. Ms. Barkha spoke about her experience as an entrepreneur. The importance of nutrition and eating was emphasized. Dr. Geetha Bali spoke about her challenges and academic journey, as well as how she got this far and her academic journey of 45 years.

Plastics are used in a variety of settings, from the countryside to metropolitan regions, according to Anitha Shankar.

Biases and problems based on gender have been discussed by all three eminent speakers in panel discussion. Building women entrepreneurs and also providing possibilities is need of time as mentioned by Ms.Anitha. Speakers also mentioned that any entrepreneurial journey requires a strong sense of purpose and passion and its very important to be good at what you do. Dr. Sonia concluded the discussion by stating that the current generation is passionate about making changes in their lives. Another important key takeaway for aspiring women from panel discussion was to have a variety of interests and talents in women who are in desperate need of security.

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Event | National Conference 12.30pm-1.00 pm- Plenary Session- Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in India- Dr.Kshama Kothari , Clinical Director –Social Alpha Dr. Soumya officially opened the meeting by introducing the plenary session. Access, cost, and availability of health care are three significant issues raised by the speaker Dr.Kshama. Along with science and technology, avenues in healthcare have been highlighted. Role and importance of funding and various sources of funding have been discussed by the speaker. Ground research and a thorough understanding of the market are critical. Awareness of funding and scholarship is required for taking up any entrepreneurial journey.

Managing finances, managing people, choosing mentors and leadership capabilities are of great importance in an entrepreneurial journey.

Bank of Baroda Demo session -1.00 pm-1.30 pm Mr. Ashwin began the meeting by outlining the various funding alternatives available through the Band of Baroda and various processes in which start-ups are aided by the bank. Since its inception the institute has served over 250 clients. Mr. Ashwin mentioned that various support is been given to assist aspiring entrepreneurs from BOB. Speaker also gave brief about startups and mentioned Govt of India's initiatives will assist start-ups, industry-academia collaboration. BOB's incubation center was discussed in detail. Startup needs, such as banking and other ancillary procedures have been highlighted by him. Speaker highlighted that bank have numerous offers for startups and make exclusive offers through designated branches such as capital connect, banking connect, mentor connect, market connect, and others.

2:50 pm to 4:00 pm- ‘Change Lab’ - A Design Thinking workshop on Women EntreLeadership Organiser: Professor Prakash Unakal, Dean – Business Design During this workshop the participants had an immersive experience in the process of Design. The workshop started with the host Professor Prakash Unakal pairing the participants into two. Initially the participants were required to create a Caricature of their partner and share their experiences with each other. Later both members were required to separately create a wallet using the stationary provided and enter a discussion at the end of every stage.

Given below are the stages that the participants were required to go through while designing the wallet: A. Draw 1.Interview 2.Dig Deep 3. Capture the finding 4. Take a stand with a point of view 5. Quick Sketch at least 5 radical ways to meet user’s needs 6. Share your solutions and capture feedback 7. Reflect and Generate a solution.

8. Build your solution 9. Share the solution and get feedback The entire session revolved around the principles of Design thinking Stages such as: Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test and Implement. By the end of the session the participants were clear as to how one should understand, explore, and materialize a concept.

4:05 pm – 5:00 pm- Conversation Café: Setting an Intrapreneurial Cult in Organisation Moderator: Prof. Dr. Madhavi Lokhande, Dean – Bengaluru Campus Guest: Mr. Philip Varughese Vayarakunnil, Global Head, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Dr. Madhavi Lokhande, moderated the session through her insightful questions to which Mr. Philip had responded using anecdotes from his life. He spoke about how his 18-20 years of experiences in Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship arena has made him realise that today we live in a world of opportunities.

He stressed the importance of capitalizing on the vast opportunities that are available for entrepreneurs today. He also spoke on how he was always on the lookout for connecting with people and sharing his ideas.

He explained that entrepreneurship is an inner calling and was worried that that the current academic ecosystem in India is not aptly designed to enable entrepreneurs. He emphasised that according to him he looked at entrepreneurship as a means to solve problems and create jobs. He also stressed that Intrapreneurship is best suited for middle age, whereas entrepreneurship is most suitable in the early or late period

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Event | National Conference of one’s career. He also explained that India is a service country, and a product mindset must be instilled to provide an environment conducive for entrepreneurs, which he stated that could depend on a lot of factors such as industry-academia collaboration, policy making, etc. He summarised by saying that any entrepreneur or intrapreneur needs to primarily have a Vision, which should have been derived out of a Passion which in turn must be supported by Clarity of thought and clarity of purpose.

5:00 pm – 6:10 pm- Valedictory & Award Ceremony Chief Guest: Ms. Parinitha Mishra, the Deputy Regional Head, Bengaluru Central Region, Bank of Baroda Guests: Prof. Dr. Anil Rao Paila, Senior Dean & Senior Vice President - Strategy & Branding Bengaluru Campus, Dr. Sonia Sandeep Mehrotra, Professor – Centre of Excellence for Case Development & Case Studies (Mumbai/Bengaluru) and Prof. Dr. Madhumita Guha Majumder, Professor & Program Incharge Research & Business Analytics Dr. Sonia Mehrotra presented the conference report by summarising the entire conference. She provided quick briefs on all the sessions and speakers, and on how entrepreneurship and leadership matters, especially in relation to women in India. She thanked everyone for being a part of the conference. She also acknowledged the efforts put in by all the participants in the practitioner, academician, and student tracks of the conference.

Dr. Anil Rao Paila, began by thanking everyone who contributed to the success of the conference. He expressed gladness that all the sessions were insightful. Based on the theme of the conference he stressed on two take aways. Firstly, understanding that change is constant, women entrepreneurs must encounter it with a positive outlook and become catalysts to change. He said this was because today we live in a VUCA world, and the pandemic has had its impact on the economy too. Secondly, the need to be Innovative and Disruptive; according to Dr. Anil this is possible by channelling change in the right direction.

Ms. Parinitha Mishra was the chief guest for the evening. During her chief guest address she spoke about the importance of women workforce. The 8000 branches of BOB across India have a workforce of more than 81,000 employee, of which about 26% are women. She also stressed on how in the late 1990s only 2% of the probationary officers in women. But, today, out 20 departments under her purview, about 10-12 departments are led by women. He also stressed that the women workforce is rising rapidly in the in the banking sector and that higher education is enabling women to take up specialised services in banks. She also spoke about the various schemes provided by the government to encourage women towards entrepreneurship. She emphasised that by giving equal opportunity to women the economy could gain by $770 billion and reiterated the fact that still a lot of the women entrepreneurial ideas are untapped and unexplored. She concluded by saying that all BOB wanted to be a bridge to reach out to those who are in need of assistance toward realising their entrepreneurial dream.

Dr. Sonia Mehrotra, declared the list of winners in all the category and Dr. Madhumita G Majumder rendered the vote of thanks.

Panel Discussion on Day – 2 of The National Conference

Valedictory Session : L-R: Dr. Anil Rao Paila, Sr. Dean & Director, WeSchool, Ms. Parinitha Mishra, the Deputy Regional Head, Bengaluru Central Region, Bank of Baroda, Dr. Madhumita Guha Majumder, Conference Co-Convenor, Dr. Sonia Mehrotra, Conference Convenor

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Theme Article-Neev 2021

WEHAANN – NEEV 2021 WEHAANN is a three-week Foundation Program- commenced on 1st September 2021 and ended on 25th September 2021.

About the Foundation Program 2021: The induction program was specially designed to provide a bouquet of experiences through interesting talks, workshops, virtual industry Immersion, grooming sessions, creativity sessions, besides various other personal and professional development sessions that would be highly engaging and interactive.

INAUGURATION The inaugural program started at 10.30 am on zoom platform. Prof. Swar Kranti began the session by setting the context.

Group Director Prof. Dr. Uday Salunkhe, welcomed all the dignitaries, staff, faculties and students. Adv. Shrin Sohanlal Jain, Adv. Mihir Prabhudesai, Dr Anil Rao Paila, Prof Ravi Vaidee were the members present in the meeting.

Dr. Anil Rao Paila, Sr Dean & Director, We school, Bangalore summarised all the points that the dignitaries spoke about and proposed vote of thanks.

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 NEEV INTRODUCTION TO STUDENTS

The Dr. Sowmya gave a presentation to students regarding the theme of NEEV 2021- WEHAANN.

The Dr. Sowmya gave a presentation to students regarding the theme of NEEV 2021- WEHAANN.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS

The next session was by Dr. Anil Rao Paila, Sr Dean & Director, We school, Bangalore. Dr Ruchi Singh introduced him to the audience.

His session mainly focused on different reports published by government and authorities about business organisations. He spoke about how forward-looking organisations think in terms of stake holder capitalism, which is an emerging issue for businesses.

The sessions of NEEV 2021 included Bridge courses, Universal Human Values, Non- contact sessions, Grooming sessions, Leadership/ study immersion, Workshops and fitness. the sessions mainly focused on key areas such as: sustainability, leadership & innovation etc.

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 BRIDGE COURSES: These sessions were handled by various faculties of We school, Bengaluru. The main idea was to give a brief introduction about various topics that they are going to study in their two-year course.

The session was spear headed by Prof. Sridhar TS. The session covered the features, advantages of Microsoft team. The features of the Microsoft teams like channels, setting up a meeting, meeting options, sharing documents, creating break out session etc were explained.

Bridge course- Microsoft Teams- Prof. Sridhar T S ,Dr. Jairaj Nair and Dr. Anita Pillai

Dr. Vijay briefed the students about the career path at the end of their PGDM program. Doing, Managing and leading is the process he advised the students to follow. He introduced the students about the financial management and investment decisions.

Bridge Course: Dr. Vijay Kumar Nishthala Finance Basics

Students were introduced to basics of operations management and the gist of curriculum which will be covered in operations management. He briefed the students on manufacturing and services.

Bridge Course - Overview of Operations – Dr. Dakshina Murthy

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 The session was to introduce the concept of Business Design to the students. He introduced the concept of re checking the problem statement, creativity.

Creativity: The most essential aspect is to have a novelty. Stages in creativity is insight, preparation, incubation, elimination. The phases on creativity includes Capturing ideas, learning, seeking challenges, pushing boundaries and managing failures, broadening skills and knowledge.

Bridge Course: Business Design – Prof. Prakash Unakal

Bridge Course: Introduction to Analytics - Prof. Ramnath Krishnamoorthy, Dr. Madhumita Guha Majumder The session covered concepts of Algorithm and Hippo algorithm, Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning, and other aspects of data science.

The session covered the very basic concepts of Marketing Management such as “what is marketing?”, “what do marketers do” and then a free flow discussion on customers need, want and demand where all the students participated enthusiastically.

Bridge Course: Overview of Marketing: Dr. D. N. Murthy

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Theme Article-Neev 2021

Bridge Course: Introduction to Emertech: Prof. Sridhar T S; Overview of IT: Dr. Anita Pillai While Prof. Sridhar spoke about RPA emerging tech, chatbot in banks, Data mapping, IoT etc., Prof. Pillai introduced students to Fedex’s sensor based logistics by using case study pedagogy.

The session started with introduction to business communication. Communicating at corporate level is the main idea behind studying business communication. Business communication is called ‘soft skills. Soft skills are personality specific. Explaining about the role of communication in enhancing work effectiveness of an organisation.

Bridge Course: Overview of Business communicationProf. Kalpana S

Dr Ruchi began her session by asking students what economics means to them. After taking answers from them, she explained what are resources, scarcity, opportunity cost, factors of production (Land, Labour, Capital and Entrepreneurship), wants and needs and many other concepts to give an overview of economics subject.

Bridge course- Overview of Economics- Dr Ruchi Singh, Professor, We school, Bengaluru

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 Prof Radhika began her session by introducing herself. The bridge course consisted of topics related to basics of accounting. Her session had contents related to introduction to accounting, evolution of accounting, scope and functions, groups interested in accounting and specialised fields in accounting.

Fundamentals of Accounts: Prof. Radhika Uttam, Professor, We School, Bengaluru

The session was titled “How Netflix reinvented HR’. Dr Jyothi gave an introduction to Netflix company which started as DVD rental companies in 1997 and now turned out to be contentproduction company. This transformation was possible only because of their peoples ‘management skills.

Bridge Course: Overview of HR- Dr. Jyoti Pant, Professor, We School, Bengaluru

UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES: These sessions were conducted to enable students to understand themselves better and mould them as good human beings.

Speaker: Ms. Uma Madan Theme: Self-awareness - Exploring our Aspirations and Concerns The session was about aspirations. Aspirations will start once its accomplished by actions. Aspirations helps one to move ahead in life and it should be in accordance to one’s passion. Set goals for each day was one of the takeaways from the session. Ms. Uma Madan urged the students to do their best and seek help and support. Fulfilments of aspirations depends on each one. The speaker also remarked the need to investigate oneself and the need for self-awareness

Ms. Uma Madan

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 Ms Ritika conducted a very energetic session which involved student interaction throughout.

It was about how we make choices in life and how would we like to reflect on the same. She gave few questions to students and asked them to choose one among the alternatives and give their opinion. Every day in our life we have to make choices. In her session she wanted students to reflect on different choices they have made in their lives.

Workshop & Reflection/Assessment- Heartfulness session Choices & Reflection: Ms. Rikita Swaroop- Faculty, Amity University/ Meditation Trainer, Heartfulness:

Management Lessons from Movie Movie: Invictus Task: Students were asked to watch the movie and come up with the management lesion from it.

Invictus tells us the South African rugby team’s quest for the World Cup and the vision for a culturally unified country as seen by Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) and Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), who as the president and the rugby-team captain worked together for the team and ultimately for the nation.

The students were asked to use their creativity and develop a write up and develop a movie/video based on the learning and core concept from the movie.

Movie Clip Invictus tells us the South African rugby team’s quest for the World Cup and the vision for a culturally unified country as seen by Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) and Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), who as the president and the rugby-team captain worked together for the team and ultimately for the nation.

The students were asked to use their creativity and develop a write up and develop a movie/video based on the learning and core concept from the movie.

Sustainability - Create your Green Business Idea Workshop- Write your Personal SWOT This as a Self-study by students where they had to list out their Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats.

Workshop- What does Diversity mean to you?

Create a poster- self-study.

GROOMING SESSIONS: These sessions were organised with the objective of making students Corporate ready’. The skills required to present themselves in the society were taught.

Batch of 2021-2023 students were introduced to the concept of creating and the power of first impression. The session also made the students realise that people also create an impression on them with the 1st impression.

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Theme: Creating the Right First Impression, Speaker: Ms. Shweta Thakur

Theme Article-Neev 2021 The speaker briefly addressed the acronym VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) . The speaker focussed on the skill set the students need to master which can be summarised as “ 4-Cs” • Communication • Collaboration • Creativity • Confidence

Theme: Futureproof yourself for the post pandemic world Ms. Sandhya Chandran

Ms.Vinoda from CMC introduced the speaker for the day. Digital etiquette is the need of the hour. Due to COVID-19, all of us have moved to online education and sessions and understanding the expected behaviour of social media. Ms Mitcch has trained many students on ‘Campus to corporate’ and has handled many grooming sessions on social media.

Grooming Session: Digital etiquette Ms. Mitcch Duddani- Social Media Coach Dr. Sonia explained students one way and two way communication and communication barriers in details.

Grooming Session: Communication Masterclass: Dr. Sonia Mehrotra, WeSchool

LEADERSHIP SERIES: students to the volatile future job market.

Volatile World: Clear vision are required to move successfully in volatile world.

Uncertain: For dealing with uncertainty people should have a thorough understanding.

Speaker - Mr. Charan Raj - Head AC Digital Global Competency Centre for Apple

Complexity: Availability of choices aggravates complexity and to deal with complexity we need clarity and focus.

Ambiguous: should be agile to deal with ambiguity

Dr.Jairaj Nair started the session by introducing the speaker to the students. The speaker - Mr. Charan Raj - Head AC Digital Global Competency Centre for Apple, set the contest for the session with the fact that the current generation must work till they last and the need to be technology ready for the future. The students where explained about the ever-changing technology era and how to survive in the VUCA world. The focus of the session was to expose the

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 Theme: Project Management The speakers of the session were Mr. K N Srikanta, Mr. Kartikeyan Ramamurthy and Mr. Bhaskar Jaganathan from Project management institute, Bangalore. The session started with the introduction of PMI-Project management Institute and the plethora of certification programs offered by PMI. The session also detailed about PMI-Bangalore chapter activities like PMP Primer, PMP Quest, PM Essence, PMPC. Mr. Bhasker started the formal session by explaining the history of the project management. He pointed out that the world revolves around the economy. He briefed about the evolving economic trends and the role of digitization and the need to deal with uncertainty. Mr. K N Srikanta defined Project as a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. Project has 3 basic characteristics, temporariness, uniqueness of product or service and progressive elaboration. Project is temporary endeavour to achieve create unique and product and result.

Mr. Bhaskar explained project management life cycle which involves starting the project, organizing and preparing, carrying out the work and ending the project. Process in project management can be a set of tasks where there is a set of inputs, take and outputs.

Mr. K N Srikanta, Mr. Kartikeyan Ramamurthy and Mr. Bhaskar Jaganathan

Guest Session The speaker introduced Nestle on a global level, purpose of the company to the students.

Students were also introduced about the research and development Centre of Nestle in India and across the globe. The speaker set the context for the session by iterating the importance of sustainability. He explained Nestle’s way of sustainability which is based on 4 pillars -Climate Change, Sustainable Packaging, Caring for water and Responsible Sourcing.

Mr. Ashish Pande, Head - Supply Chain, South Asia, Nestle, Theme: Sustainability

Students were introduced to basics of operations management and the gist of curriculum which will be covered in operations management. He briefed the students on manufacturing and services.

Bridge Course - Overview of Operations – Dr. Dakshina Murthy

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 The session started with Dr. Patro asking the students about their expectation from the session and students enthusiastically participated in the session. To answer the questions of digitalization. Patro reiterated that digitization will not leave HR professionals with out a job. The session was oriented towards building a successful career.

Dr. Anil Kumar Patro, Senior Director-Human Resources, Europe & Asia Pacific Meritor Commercial Vehicle Systems India Pvt Ltd., Theme: Career Success

The interactive session started by the speaker posting a question to the students of the solutions can be perfect.

The perfect solution needs to be evolved. The outcome is based on the external forces. The concept of reaching to the perfect solution was explained with the help of a story problem where some of explorers need to reach the castle without falling to the ditch. The students were introduced to filtration criteria and the need to ask questions through this story problem. The constraints for the story line was introduced.

Speaker - Mr. Deepak Saini, VP Product Design, Games 24/7, Theme: Product Innovation and Leadership

Mr. Hariharan walked through his journey at Welingkar as a student and how the Welingkar leadership team inspired and influenced him throughout his career. According to Mr. Hariharan the role of leadership is to find the future, recognize the future and to secure the future. This can be done by putting the right planning and vision. From his personal experience he underlined the need to develop a reading habit amongst the students. The need to have an open access to learn was one of the takeaways from the session.

Theme: How to be a leader and still smile, Mr. Hariharan Ramakrishnan, Vice PresidentDigital & Analytics, Mind Infotech

Theme: End-to-End (Customer to Customer) Supply Chain Life Cycle in Volvo, Mr. Sunderraj Gudihal, Head – Volvo Production system, F4T, Warehouse and Safety

The session started with Mr. Sunderraj giving a detailed description of Volvo and its operations. He gave overview of product portfolio and operational management of Volvo Construction equipment. Three types of logistics were also introduced during the session, He explained about various aspects of operations and supply chain management and manufacturing concepts. Students query related to operations management and supply chain management and leadership were addressed by the speaker.

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 Ms. Neha, a Psychotherapist, made students aware of what is harassing behave, what are the boundaries, what is personal space, the meaning of consent etc. in her session.

Guest Session: Ms. Neha Siddavanahalli, Theme: Sexual Harassment: Understanding Dynamics and Redressal Mechanism

Theme: Fire side Chat, Speaker: Ms. B R Poornima, Head, We ACT

The session was an interaction with Ms. B R Poornima which was hosted by Dr. Savitha.

Ms. Poornima explained the details of the organization and the work they do. Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) the pioneer in Entrepreneurship for several decades has promoted entrepreneurship in urban, rural, peri-urban in and outside India. Entrepreneurs are not born; they can be made has been proved with micro/Nano enterprises established in different parts of India. Having brought these persons into the World of Entrepreneurship, EDII has felt the need to provide a platform for the networking of Women Entrepreneurs who have established micro-enterprises

Another Panelist for the session was from Accenture Dr. Daniel the speaker highlighted the CSR activities of Accenture and he highlighted the journey and how Accenture invested in the initiative of Ms. Poornima’s venture -WeAct. MS. Poornima also elaborated on the support and guidance of leadership team of We Act, Dr. Raman Gujral.

Dr. Gujral explained the strategy used by entrepreneurship development Institute, Ahmedabad.

Leadership Breakfast- Design & Innovation in heavy Engineering Industry: Prof Mohan Chandra from the department of Business Design introduced the guest speaker for the session.

The topic of the session was ‘An Innovation Case study at Tata-Hitachi’.

Mr. Monikut Sharma- Head-L&D, HR Business Partner, Tata Hitachi:

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Mr Monikat Sharma started the session by talking about Hitachi which is a subsidiary of Tata Motors.” Leadership with Trust” a distinct value systems and ethics is derived from Tata company and “Reliable solutions” is drawn from Hitachi: a Japanese quality and technological prowess. He also explained about different product range and their usages, the branches that are established in India, CSR initiatives, mining activities etc.

Theme Article-Neev 2021 Dr Anita Pillai, introduced the speaker for the day. Ms Ranjana Nair is a young entrepreneur who along with two other people has started a company which works on IOT. She began her session by giving a brief introduction about her company and how it was started. According to her, entrepreneurship doesn’t mean running big company but is ‘creating something out of nothing’. One actually requires risk appetite to become a successful entrepreneur. Innovation is a vital element of entrepreneurship.

Leadership Breakfast Series: Entrepreneurship and Innovation- Ms. Ranjana Nair, Co-Founder & CEO, Ray IoT Solutions:

Mr. Jitesh talked about customer engagement and cultural heritage followed at Atos Syntel, the definition of customer, engagement and customer engagement and also the inclusiveness in Indian culture in general. It was an interactive session where students asked about their doubts such as what factors matter in customer loyalty and how to negotiate in B2B space.

Leadership Breakfast Series: Customer Engagement -Mr. Jitesh - Sable Engagement Director at Atos Syntel

Mr. Vijay shared with students the importance of AI to business and how AI is implemented in an organization as a practice, the recent breakthroughs in AI and the cultural challenges in adopting AI.

Artificial Intelligence for Business Mr. Vijay Bhimarao - Director Software Services

Mr. Mohapatra delivered his interesting and crisp lecture on changing industry and workforce trends in recent times, opportunities for L&D, employability skills required, preference of the new age learner, making a shift from the old to new regime of learning, etc.

Industry Immersion: Talent Transformation: Mr. Surya Prakash Mohapatra - Global Head- Talent Transformation and Learning & Development, Wipro Digital Operations and Platforms

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 Mr. Mohan shared his experience in the field of Software Technology and urged students to be future ready.

Industry Immersion: Mr. Mohan, Practice Head – Wipro

Ms. Ankita banerjee - HR (Randstad) & Harshal – Analytics (Randstad) spoke about performance management, Google Data studio, and innovation in services at Randstad.

Industry Immersion: Ms. Ankita Banerjee & Mr. Harshal Goyal: 'Randstad as a Workplace' - a Journey

Mr. Ganesh started his discussion with the history of banking India and briefly stated the difference between commercial and investment banks. Then he explained in details the functioning of investments banks today. Today, investment banks have three primary responsibilities – 1.

To provide advisory services (for mergers, acquisitions etc.), 2. To create long term assets (managing large assets for corporate) and 3. To provide broker services (treading stocks).

Industry Immersion: Mr. Madan Ganesh (Ganesh) - VP, Goldman Sachs

Mr. Rathod discussed about farmers market, farmers problems such as middlemen. It was an interactive session with students asking their doubts such as whether Mr. Rathod’s venture has received guidance/support from GoI initiative? Whether they held any training program for farmers? Etc.

Guest Session: Innovation in Agritech Startup: Mr. Prem Rathod

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 Mr. Chawla spoke about Leadership in turbulent time at Titan and how they managed both demand side and supply side disruption during the COVID 19 Pandemic.

Guest Session: Mr. Ajoy Chawla, CEO, Jewellery Division, Titan

Mr. Basha shared a brief history of Tata group with a focus on Titan’s journey from the very beginning.

Guest Session: Mr. Sadiq Basha, Divisional Manager - Titan Company Ltd.

The panel discussion included presentations on evolution of AI and ML, what is digital economy and how cloud is helping it to flourish and what is cloud computing technology.

Panel Discussion: Innovative Product Design in Digital Economy: Mr. V Vasudevan (Wipro), Ms. Jayashree Kar (Architect), Mr. Unnikrishnan S (Yoga Practitioner), Prof. Sridhar TS (WeSchool), Prof. Anita Pillai (WeSchool)

AUMNI INTERACTION

Dr. Anil Rao & Esteemed Alumni Members

WeSchool Alumni Sawantika Chauhan, Amarnath Shete, Anju Bhadoria, Ramya Laxmi, Jagadis Purohit and Pragyan P spoke about their journey in the corporate and shared their suggestions for future preparedness to the new batch.

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Theme Article-Neev 2021

There was one more session with the alumni who started their own business. Mr. Robin Jain (Falahaar), Mr. Karan Rawat (Breakthrough with Karan Rawat), Mr. Pankaj (Real Estate and Construction Company), Vedang Shah (Rolling Cones) shared their journey as an entrepreneur and how the two years rigorous program at WeSchool helped them.

FITNESS:

Fitness sessions were organised to make students energetic. Of late, physical activity is the most neglected aspect especially among the current generation. Therefore, these sessions gave students a platform to explore many new workout routines that they can follow to keep themselves physically active.

Yoga Session Ms. Shubashree

Students participated in yoga session with full dedication and enthusiasm. The session started with breathing exercises and meditation followed by yoga asanas.

Students enjoyed the Zumba session throughly with Mr. Sandeep. This Zumba session combined fitness with international music and dance moves

Zumba Session: Mr. Sandeep

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: In these sessions’ students were broken into 3 different groups where they had sessions such as velocity reading, art workshop, ice breakers etc. this allowed them to interact with different speakers who were expertise in their own fields.

Breakout Session 1- Art Workshop- The session was conducted by Ms. Dipali, Founder of Mein Bhi Kalakar.

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The topic for the day was ‘Travel around the world’.

Students were taught the skills that is required to draw the illustration. First, she made a note of all the elements that are required to bring out the 3 illustrations and then taught the students how to draw. Students involved themselves in the session and drew good illustrations. Some of them also did show case the same with the speaker.

Theme Article-Neev 2021 The workshop started with an activity where the students could evealute their footprints . The session covered about circular economy which is an economic system that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. Dr. Karishma eloborated on renewable flow management which is based on sharing, maintaining,reuse,refurbish and recycle.

Circular Economy and Sustainability workshop, Speaker: Dr. Karishma Choudhary

The speaker of the session was Mr. Rupak Shah, a professional trainer. The session started with Mr. Shah asking students to share their current location in chat box. This was a fun filled interactive activity-oriented session. The students were introduced to brain gym exercises through couple of activities. In one of the activities the speaker asked the students to follow his hand movements on the screen and the difficulty level of the activity was increased and more constraints were added. These brain gym exercises help in mind body coordination, retention power and helps to be in the present moment.

Velocity Reading: By Mr. Rupak Shah

Break The Ice With Toast Master She is more inclined towards women entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and SDGs. Ms Olivia began her session by asking students what motivated them to take up MBA as a course and how many were interested in becoming an entrepreneur.

The speaker for the session was Ms. Olivia Deka a young entrepreneur, founder and CEO of ‘She for Change’.

Ms. Dhara Mehta made students understand how to creatively communicate using movements, without uttering words. She explained and showed how students could be more responsive and agile when working with body and mind together. It was a fun filled session where students were encouraged to dance freestyle and then were divided into groups to do theatrical acts.

Ms. Dhara Mehta

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 Ms. Ashwini was the guest for the session ‘Connect with Self, Society and Surroundings’. The speaker introduced the activities of the organization Lets Tag on. The purpose of the session was to sensitize the youth to the societal issues and challenges. The speaker iterated the need to have societal empathy, humility and inclusivity amongst management students. The session sensitized the students on the meaning of developing the society and surroundings.

Connect with Self, Society and Surroundings

Cutting Edges for Time Travel

In this workshop by Ms. Neha and Mr. Umesh, students were encouraged to shape their imagination using shadow art. They sketched their imagination on the paper, and then cut the paper to depict their stories in shadows. The theme of the workshop was to time travel.

In pursuit of something we believe in, we often take on a journey. Some of us know the destination and travel through uncharted territory, while others let the road lead them. Students were inspired to portray their life journey using shadow art on this theme.

Design thinking workshop

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The session covered the importance of design thinking in business Whether you work in business, healthcare, education or a non-profit, the core principles of Design Thinking and Innovation will help to overcome business challenges. It encourages creativity, active problem solving, critical thinking and innovation. Design thinking is a user-centered process of innovative problem-solving, wrapped around the elements of observation, collaboration, exploring latent needs, re-definition of problem statements, visualization of ideas and concepts, prototyping, opportunity creation and organizational change by design.

Theme Article-Neev 2021 It was a combined session for students of both Mumbai and Bengaluru campus. Mr. Chirag Dixit from Bloomberg showed how to navigate the Bloomberg portal to get best benefits out of it. Students can enroll for a self-paced e-learning course Bloomberg Market Concepts (bmc) using the portal that introduces students to the financial markets. The students can complete their bmc certification by participating in proctored examinations after the course.

Workshop: Bloomberg Session

Ms Srija Bose introduced the speaker for the session.

Ms Sheela Krishna started the session by giving few examples of peer pressure and its impact on mental and physical health of people. According to her, peer pressure is something inevitable and as human beings all of us would have faced it at some point of time in life.

Workshop: Handling the inevitable (Peer pressure)- Ms. Sheela Krishna:

Dr Savitha introduced the speaker for the day. Dr Rahul Mehrotra is the director and head non-invasive cardiology at Max Super speciality hospital, New Delhi. His session mainly concentrated on holistic health which can be achieved through meditation. According to him, meditation improves body, mind and soul. He also discussed about what Plato and Socrates defined holistic health.

Workshop- Causality- Dr. Rahul Mehrotra- Meditation Trainer, Heartfulness:

Mr. Krishnan guided the students on managing oneself and managing stress.

Workshop: Befriending Stress - Mr. Ramesh Krishnan

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 REFLECTIONS: Reflections were conducted every date between 4.15 pm and 4.30 pm, to help students reflect on what they learnt for the day.

INTERACTION WITH DEAN AND PROGRAM HEADS: Students also and 2 to 3 sessions where they were given introduction about the campus and the programmes opted by them.

Interaction with Program Heads: Professors, We School, Bengaluru-

The session was divided among all the program heads. Dr Jai raj Nair, head of E-Biz program, started the session by giving a brief introduction about himself. He discussed about the recent developments which are taking place where technology is applied in other fields. Also, he gave an overview about the course.

Dr Jai raj Nair, head of E-Biz program

Prof Prakash took over session by introducing himself and addressed the students opted for Business Design. He spoke about the importance of applying design in various fields. Business design integrates design thinking and innovation.

Prof. Prakash V Unakal Dean - Business Design & Innovation

Dr Savitha addressed the PGDM students. she discussed about the PGDM course philosophy and journey. The core philosophy of PDGM is to develop the ability to apply knowledge across situations and functional/ disciplinary skills.

Dr. Savitha G R Professor- Human Resource

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Theme Article-Neev 2021 Dr Madhumita addressed the students opted for Research and Business analytics program. After introducing herself to the students, she explained them how she got to choose data analytics. She advised students to have love for data and that is the only thing required for taking up the course.

Dr. Madhumita Guha Majumder Professor & Program Incharge Research & Business Analytics

Interaction with Dean- Dr. Madhavi LokhandeDean Academics, We School, Bengaluru

Dr Madhavi Lokhande’s session was on how students can prepare themselves for the upcoming two years of their stay on the campus. Some of the areas covered by her were: Who is a leader – in which she spoke about prominent personalities and their leadership styles, the evolving industry landscape- mass customization & Cyber physical cognitive system, Zen state- never stop learning because life never stops teaching, courage flip of the other side, intelligence beyond intellect etc. She also narrated some success stories of popular people to motivated students.

Department Introduction

CECP – Dr. Jyoti

CECD –Dr. Sonia & Ms. Ishani

Admin – Mr. Haneef and Team

Library – Mr. Rajkumar and Team

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Event | Rotaract Club

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Blood Donation Drive An Event to Remember “Your droplets of blood may create an ocean of happiness for someone”. This was the central theme and slogan of the Blood Donation Drive organised by “Rotaract Club” of Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Bengaluru in collaboration with Rotary TTK Blood Bank (Rotary Bengaluru Blood Centre). The Blood Donation Drive was organised on 17th May 2022 within the premises, in the MDP Room of Welingkar Institute, Bengaluru.

The preparations, promotions and arrangements for the Blood Donation Drive started one week prior to the Actual Drive Day. People were encouraged and told advantages to donate blood as it actually improves heart health, replenishes blood, lower cholesterol level etc to name a few. There was a form circulated three days prior to the people who wished to donate blood, their responses were collected by the Rotaract Club team and instructions were laid out to them to keep in mind before donating blood.

The Blood Donation Drive was inaugurated by Welingkar Bengaluru’s Senior Dean and Senior Vice President -Professor Anil Subbarao Paila. The Blood Donation Drive started at 11 am in the morning and continued till 5:30 pm in the Evening.

Every Donor which came in for Blood Donation were medically examined, they were asked to fill an application form by Rotary TTK Blood Bank, they were also medically examined, that is their haemoglobin levels, blood pressure etc were monitored before they were proceeded for Blood Donation.

There were also few walk-ins on the Blood Donation Drive Day, they were too made to fill an Application Form and were also medically examined and when they satisfied all the above criteria, only then they were allowed to donate blood. The Rotaract Club members were on duty to help the Rotary Blood Bank staff, doctors and donors, if they needed any help.

The Donors were provided with fruit juice and refreshments after donating blood. In Total, 87 Donors donated blood and 87 units of blood was collected at the Blood Donation Camp. As said by Rotary TTK Blood Bank, 87 units of Blood is the highest Blood donated by any Institute and Welingkar Institute, Bengaluru broke long standing 4 Year Record. Rotary Bengaluru Blood Centre in association with Bangalore Medical Services Trust gave Certificate of Acknowledgement and Letter of Appreciation to Welingkar Institute, Bangalore for their distinguished service in the area of Voluntary Blood Donation and expressed gratitude to volunteers for their sincere efforts in making this Blood Donation Drive a huge success. The Blood Donation Drive conducted by Rotaract Club of Welingkar Bangalore was further recognized as it’s mention and Photo of the Event was also featured in Crossing -The House Magazine of Rotary Bangalore Junction.

The Blood Donation Drive in May was a Grand Success in all respects and Rotaract Club of Welingkar Institute, Bangalore, looks forward to continued support from Rotary TTK Blood Bank so that more such Voluntary Blood Donation Drives can be conducted and to make the further Blood Donation Events even more successful than the previous events.

By- Rishabh Wadhwa Public Relation Editor- Rotaract Club PGDM E Biz [2021-23]

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Event | Rotaract Club

BEAT THE HEAT “Traveling the path of duties under the shades of sun, is as arduous as a creature in the constant gaze of obedience” Stepping against the odds of the weather, Rotract club of Welingkar put forward a refreshment donation drive for the one who put forth the best step possible in order to grant us all the facilities required in the transit of our duties. The club, collaborated with ELCITA & the team on 6th June 2021, Monday, with an aim to make this time little bearable with some refreshments, and a smile filled with gratitude, towards the staff members, across varied duties of helpers, sweepers, watchman and some street labours as well, who stand still in the unbearable heat of summers to bring the efficiency in the level of traffic across the busy streets of Bengaluru, and the one who enable this functioning possible through their hard work in the backend.

With the necessary permissions, and constant support of the ELCITA team, the club members were able to distribute the units to the desired people at there respected locations using the transport facility extended by the ELCITA team for a phenomenal execution of the drive, throughout the day.

A sum of 130 units was distributed, denoting the successful accomplishment of the event, that lead to a spark of happiness and enthusiasm in all of them as well as the members of the club who wish to extend a heartful of grateful to everyone who works tirelessly in the extreme conditions to make all our living a happier and an efficient one. Also, a wishful regard to ELCITA and the team for their constant support, and we also aim to bridge this collaboration further for most such events.

By- Disha Gowani Secretary- Rotaract Club PGDM-RBA [2021-2023]

S. P. MANDALI’S

Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute Of Management Development & Research, Bengaluru Plot No 102 & 103, Electronics City Phase 1, Hosur Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560 100 Phone : +91-80-42678300

www.welingkar.org