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Volume: 15 Issue: 8 November 2019 A Monthly Newsletter of SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, Cochin, India. Now was archery; the second knew he was We’re all winners! good at this skill, the third did well, but not as well, and the first did horribly. A contest was held in a small town for festivities and sport. There was a series “I won this one!” The second bounced and of different games to participate in which jumped. included a horse race, archery, and jousting. The third feeling low for he has not won first There were many kinds of awards that would yet, looked at the last game in the contest. be given to those who win. Three boys, all of “Yes, but there is another jousting!” He them friends, wanted to enter the games. smiled. The first boy, excited, told his companions, They jousted all three, and sure enough the “Let’s join the contests and see if we’ll win!” third won the game effortlessly. However, The second chimed in also in excitement, as they ended they all realised they all won “Let us see who is best of us three!” differently. Dr. G.P.C.Nayar “Who is the winner?” The first cried. With that, the third also agreed, competitive Founder & Chairman was he. SCMS Group of Educational Institutions The second replied, “I don’t know.” All three did the horse race; the first was The third seeing a lesson he spoke and skilled in this place. He earned first place, the second got sec- smiled. “Our strengths and weaknesses help each other. We ond, and the third got the third of the boys. need each other. We’re all winners!” “I won! I won!” the first proclaimed gleefully. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins champi- The second and the third sulked, but then the second said, “We onships.” will see.” “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean,” “Yes!” the third said, “There are other things to be won!” So with that they agreed enjoying the rest of the festivities. So with that they went again competitively. Dr. G.P.C.Nayar Our priority should be to grow at 10 percent per year for 10 years --- Dr.Subramanian Swamy Dr. Subramanian Swamy MP and Chairman, Board of Governors, SCMS COCHIN School of Business addressed the PGDM students on the topic, ‘Regaining India’s Economic Legacy,’ on October 5. The talk was based on Dr.Swamy’s latest book – RESET: Regaining India’s Economic Legacy. India was the most developed country economically right for thou- sands of years, for at least 10,000 years, he said. Up to 1750, India was considered as the most developed country of the world. We were ahead of anybody by leaps and bounds until about 1200 AD. After that, Islamic invasion took place which was followed by the British colonisation. As a result, India started going down. During the British rule the resources of the country were taken out of the country. It was so substantial. My calculation shows it was to the tune of $ 71 trillion. The industrial revolution that took place in the western world was not allowed to come to India by the Britishers. The important periods that contributed to the formation of what we are today were: (1) the period from 1870 to 1947, (2) from 1950 to Dr.Subramanian Swamy MP and Chairman, Board of Governors, SCMS CO- 1990 when the planning method from the Soviet Union was utilised CHIN School of Business addressing the PGDM students. by Jawaharlal Nehru, (3) during early 1990s the two Prime Minis- ters, Chandrasekhar and Narasimha Rao, transformed our growth percent by growing at 8 percent per year, and (4) then again when rate and put us on a wholly new path from a growth rate of 3 these two PMs went economy was again on a stagnant path. Contd. on page 2 GPC Nayar has devoted his entire life GPC Nayar is a person ised by three institutions, namely, SCMS, Harvard Uni- who has devoted his en- versity and China’s Tsinghua University. (Tsinghua is tire life to build this great considered as the Harvard of China.) All those invitees institution from scratches who came here were surprised to see this building, without any government the infrastructure, and the conference setup. All the support. Today, I feel arrangements were done by GPC and his family. The extremely proud of him for entire team worked so hard to make that conference his never-give-up attitude the most successful one I had ever been to. and hard work in building Some ten days ago, I had been to China to give a talk up this institution which in an important global symposium. I was surprised to has established the na- note that they all still remembered the success of the tional ranking. conference held in SCMS. Some ten years ago, we had an international seminar --- Dr.Subramanian Swamy – India-China- US conference - here which was organ- Contd. from page 1 Nehru’s choice of the Soviet model extracting resources from agri- has come down. culture for financing industrial development was a mistake, said Dr. Now what we should do to regain our legacy? When we talk about Swamy. As a result agriculture of India suffered as also the industry. our policy we should talk about our objective, our priority, our strat- Finally, we had a major food problem in 1955. It required to work on egy and the method of resource mobilisation. According to me our a green revolution to transform India from a food deficient country first priority should be to grow at 10 percent per year for 10 years. to a food sufficient country. India showed its capacity to overcome Can we achieve it? In my opinion our first preference to achieve it the difficult period. Even now India has the power to recapture its should be to focus on agricultural development. The second pref- legacy. erence should be industrial development based on new technology Growth rate in India till 1947 was only 0.5 percent per year. From and new innovation. The third priority should be to develop the 1950 to 1990 during the Soviet model it was 3.5 percent. After service sector to modern communication facilities. liberalisation was brought in by Narasimha Rao for five years it rose Dr.Radha P.Thevannoor, Group Director welcomed Dr.Subramanian from 3.5 to 8 percent. During the last three years the growth rate Swamy and the gathering. Special workshop by Mr.Praveen Kamath for employees and gave the students some hands-on experience of constructing the compensation components. The session was Mr. Praveen Kamath, attended by all the HR students of the PGDM Batch 27 and the General Manager & faculty members. It was a fruitful session and was well appreciated Global Delivery Head by the participants as it was so beneficial to them from the practical - HR, WIPRO Tech- standpoint. nologies, Bengaluru conducted a special workshop on ‘Com- SatChat series of lectures pensation Structuring Another session of SatChat lecture series was held on July 27. in Organisations’ The first presentation was by Dr.Deepa Pillai on the topic ‘Lively for the PGDM HR Classrooms.’ The second presentation was by Dr.Bijith George on students of the the topic ‘Dreaming Better Life – Why do people move?’ The third SCMS Cochin School of Business on October19. He elaborated on talk was by Ms.Aiswarya Murali and the topic was ‘A walk through the practical issues of designing and structuring salary packages the handloom villages of Kerala.’ Student achievements SSTM News Students of SSTM bag ranks in MG University exams SCMS School of Technology and Management Aparna Ashok, student of SSTM has bagged Second rank in the DDMCA programme conducted by M.G. University. Aishwarya The MBA programme receives accreditation Vijayan and C.Durga, students of BA Economics (Foreign Trade) from NBA have secured First and Second ranks. The SCMS School of Technology and Management has received Accreditation from NBA ( National Board of Accreditation) for its MBA programme. NBA is one of the two major bodies responsi- ble for accreditation of higher education institutions in India. The programme is affiliated to M.G. University. SCMS is one of the few institutions having MBA programme accredited by NBA and NAAC in the state. Aparna Ashok Aishwarya Vijayan C.Durga SCMS News - Cochin Volume 15 Issue 8 November 2019 Batch 16 MBA students won second prize in Janpada - The Mar- As a part of the study by SCMS Centre of Research, Consultancy & keting Game at ‘Case De Gestao 2019’ a National Level Manage- Training (SCRCT) for Petronet LNG Foundation, batch 17 students ment Fest conducted by Bhavan’s Royal Institute of Management, conducted a survey to understand the impact of ‘Numma Oonu’- Kochi, on September 3. The winners were Shabeer, Anjali B., a hunger eradication project in Ernakulam district. The students Amal Thomas, Abhirami and Alfiya. collected the data from the beneficiaries and other stakeholders of the project from various places in the district. Second prize in Marketing Game Gopika Srikumar and Sandhya of MBA batch16 along with three students from IMCA participated in ‘Lavanyam 2019’ a week-long Onam celebration, organised jointly by Ernakulam District Adminis- tration and District Tourism Promotional Council held on September 8 at Durbar Hall Grounds. A group of 30 students of MBA batch 16 participated in the public awareness road show ‘Memory Walk,’ a programme organised Data collection by Prajna Udbodh of Cochin University at Durbar Hall Ground on September 21, as a step towards Dementia - friendly Cochin.