ISTD Dehradun Chapter - 29th of September,2011

ISTD Dehradun chapter organised a half day seminar on various HR practices followed in different companies & its impact on its employees on the 29^th of September, 2011 at the Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee. The event was divided into two parts- round table discussion & interaction with 1^st year MBA students. 

The event was organized by PhD. Scholars & 2^nd yr MBA students and was hosted by DoMS, IIT Roorkee under the guidance of Dr. Santosh Rangnekar, Associate Professor, DoMS, IIT Roorkee, who is also the Honourable Secretary of ISTD Dehradun Chapter. The following Guests attended the seminar:

S.No	Names	Designation	Organization
1	Sajid Anwar	Head-Manufacturing (Factory Manager)	Asahi India Glass Ltd.
2	A.C. Joshi	AGM(P&A)	THDCIL
3	Sudhanshu Joshi	Incharge-IT, Asst. Professor	Doon University
4	Usha Lenka	Asst. Professor	IIT Roorkee
5	Col. Lokesh Bisht	Centre Head and lead faculty	Pegasus Institute for excellence
6	Aruna Bhat	Research Scholar	IIT Roorkee
7	Prashant Kumar	Manager, HR	Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd.
8	Sanjeev Kumar	Head-HR	Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd.
9	Ruchir Jhingran	Head-HR	ITC Saharanpur
10	Saptarshi Das	Asst. Manager-HR	ITC Saharanpur
11	D.K Naniyal	Professor	IIT Roorkee
12	Rajendra Singh	DGM-HR	UJVN Ltd.

The interaction session was started by Aditi Joshi (1^st yr MBA student), who welcomed the guests & informed them about the batch profile of MBA students studying in the DoMS, IIT Roorkee. After that, Dr. Santosh Rangnekar invited guests to have a word with students.

First guest who addressed the students was Mr. Rajendra Singh, who spoke briefly about his profile & his industry. He was followed by Mr. Prashant Kumar, who explained the work culture in Jubilant Life Science Ltd. Mr. Prashant invited 1^st yr MBA students to get involved with Jubilant and work on live project as was done by 2^nd yr MBA students of DoMS, IIT Roorkee. Similarly, A.C. Joshi from THDCIL, invited 1^st yr MBA student to get involved with live projects.

Next to come, was Mr. Sajid Anwar, who spoke about his profile & about AIS. He explained how his company is leading supplier of auto glass to most passenger cars manufactured in India. He told about AIS relation with Maruti & Toyota. He even invited MBA students for a visit to AIS plant.

After Mr. Sajid, Mr. Ruchir Jhingran took the center stage. Mr. Ruchir explained about the ITC work culture & different issues related to it especially about the worker’s union. He also explained the campus recruitment policy of ITC. He said that ITC mostly recruit MBAs for sales/marketing and a few people for HR roles.

Col. Lokesh Bisht, who retired from Army in March 2006 & currently serving at Pegasus North Delivery Centre-Dehradun, then invited students to attend programs in Pegasus. According to him, these programs would be covering team building, leadership development & competency building.

The session ended with the note of thanks by Dr. Santosh Rangnekar. He appreciated the efforts put by guest speakers in sharing knowledge with MBA students. A gift & placement brochure of DoMS, IIT Roorkee was given to all the Guests as a token of appreciation. It was an enriching experience for all the students to have so many industry people from the area of HR share their knowledge with them.