More than 3,500 students from over 40 colleges across the State attend
Mysore :
More than 3,500 students pursuing BE, B.Com, B.Sc, MBA, PG and other courses from over 40 colleges across the State are participating in the Industry-Technology and Management Summit- 2014, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Mysore to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sir M. Visvesvaraya, began today at Chamundi Vihar Indoor Stadium in city.
The summit was jointly inaugurated by Ramji Raghavan, Social Entrepreneur and Founder Chairman of Agastya International Foundation, along with Sid Mookerji, Global CEO and Founder of SPI, Mysore.
R.C. Jagadesh, Chairman of CII, Mysore and Director, Technology and Operations of Klueber Lubrications I Pvt. Ltd., in his address said that 52% of Indian population was in the working age group which would go up by 56% in the year 2020 and added that more than 65% of the population was aged under 35 years.
He further said that there will be a significant increase in employment opportunities for the youth in the country and added that only quality and talent would be in great demand.
Jagadish said that according to reports , 75% of engineering students who pass out of college were unemployable while another study reveals that only 30% of employers expressed satisfaction with the new recruits, which indicated that fresh graduates need to possess more than just a degree.
Ramji Raghavan, Social Entrepreneur and Founder Chairman of Agastya International Foundation, in his keynote address on Leadership and Innovation, expressed happiness for conducting such summit and called the students present at the summit as young people with lot of energy and creativity.
Speaking on the occasion, he gave a brief note about scientist Albert Einstein and Mathematician Ramanujam. He said that these two became great persons because they were driven by the passion and they loved what they did.
Ramji called upon the students to be good observers, possess the capacity to think and have the ability to apply their minds.
He said that just possessing curiosity and confidence was not enough. “One should possess curiosity with confidence with humanity,” he said.
He called upon the students to step out, build energy and create history, which he said was the quality of good leadership.
Sid Mookerji, Global CEO and Founder of SPI, in his keynote address on Entrepreneurship, spoke about ‘How to be your own boss.’
He said that becoming an entrepreneur was not easy as it involves a lot of personal and professional sacrifice and added that an entrepreneur will be out of the comfort zone everyday and deal with different situations.
He called upon the students to believe in themselves so that they can achieve anything and added that a successful entrepreneur will become a responsible entrepreneur.
He called upon the students to continue learning as it is a life-long process which should never be stopped.
Vinu Shekar, Head – HR of Infosys Ltd. Mysore will deliver a plenary address on ‘Career Opportunities and growth prospects for next three years in IT’ while M.V.S. Prasad, HR of Bosch Ltd. will deliver a talk on ‘Career opportunities and growth prospects in Manufacturing and Automobile Engineering.’
Usha Subramanian, VP and Head of Mphasis, an HP company, will deliver a talk on ‘Career opportunities and growth prospects in ITES and BPO.’ R. Savitha, Manager of IDBI Bank will deliver a talk on Career opportunities and growth prospects
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / September 15th, 2014