Personality Development Camp
A.K. Dogra, Joint Secretary of the University Grants Commission, speaking at the inauguration of a personality development camp at CMS Institute of Management Studies in Coimbatore on Sunday. Business management students should learn the subject like a science so as to become good managers, said A.K. Dogra, Joint Secretary of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Sunday.He was inaugurating ‘Awakening ’08’, a 10-day residential personality development camp at the CMS Institute of Management Studies. He asserted that all managerial aspirants should learn to handle stress. ‘Those who cannot manage their own body and mind cannot be in a position to manage a company or an entrepreneurial venture. Hence, inner management should be achieved first and foremost before venturing out on external management,’ Mr. Dogra said.
He urged the business schools to design management programmes that would create ‘all-rounded managers’. ‘The curriculum of management education in India is still much westernised. What is missing in the curriculum reflects on the quality of students. Values and principles should be offered along with the basic principles of management. Otherwise there is a chance that youth may end up as criminals and indulge in illegal activities,’ said P. Thirumalvalavan, Registrar of Bharathiar University.
He said the Indian economy had moved from agrarian to knowledge economy. Contribution from the service sector to the economy is 53 per cent. ‘But, still majority of Indians depended on agriculture for their livelihood. More than 40 per cent of Indians lived below the poverty line,’ he said. ‘How to match the availability of resources? Optimal utilisation of resources for the benefit of all can only be done by good managers’. M.P. Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, CMS Educational and Charitable Trust, and S. Sandhya Menon, Principal of the institute spoke.
