JKTI Makes History with ISO 9001:2000 Certification
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2nd2nd 2nd2nd yy vverersarsar October 2004 - March 2005AnniAnni Vol 2 Issue 4 - Vol 3 Issue 1 IssueIssue JKTI Makes History With ISO 9001:2000 Certification avenue for a means of customers. ISO 9000 speaks an livelihood for our students. international language. We “In all our endeavours, have closely scrutinized JKTI’s UniqueUnique BirthdayBirthday GiftGift we have always been ex- management systems. The in- tremely quality conscious and stitute has exemplary business the ISO 9001:2000 certifica- practices and this ISO tion has aptly endorsed the fact 9001:2000 certification is that adhering to best manage- well-earned and well- ment and business practices deserved.” comes naturally to us and is an The 43-year-old JKTI inseparable part of our work chain enrolls around 15,000 to culture. Believe me, it takes 20,000 students every year. great individual effort and team- With more than five-and-a- work to achieve this.” half lakh students passing out Congratulating JKTI on of the JKTI network over the its success in getting ISO past four plus decades, JKTI 9001:2000 certification, Mr B has established itself as a force Krishnamurthi, BSI India Se- to reckon with in vocational nior Manager, Western Re- and technical education. gion, emphasizes, “Registra- By succeeding in becom- tion to ISO 9000 takes place ing one of the first ones to earn “Could we give you a better birthday gift?”, is what CMD Unmesh Joshi seems to be asking his father Shri Manohar Joshi, founder of Kohinoor Group. JKTI was awarded ISO certification on the founder’s 67th birthday, 2nd December, 2004 KTI (Joshi’s Kohinoor Standards Institution – BSI engineering, electronic and Technical Institute) has Group, after a stringent audit computer courses over the years Jcreated history by becom- of the business practices and went on to become a leader ing one of the first vocational adopted by JKTI, the in vocational training with institutes to get ISO 9001:2000 Kohinoor Group’s courses as diverse as telephone (Quality) certification. The ‘technovocational’ institute. operating, mobile servicing, certification was awarded by Founded in 1901, BSI is a screen and offset printing, pho- BSI Management Systems, a leading business services pro- tography, video shooting and world-renowned management vider to organizations world- special courses for ladies like a systems certifying body of wide and has over 5,400 em- beautician’s course, basic tailor- great repute under the flagship ployees spread over 110 coun- ing and fashion designing of the UK-based British tries. BSI Management Systems courses et al. has an impressive Not only that, with chang- client list of more ing times, JKTI collaborated than 40,000 cli- with reputed corporates like ents spread over Videocon and Whirlpool to de- the globe, which sign and conduct customised includes bigwigs courses like Techno-Smart of the interna- (Videocon) and Sarvatha tional corporate Samartha (Whirlpool). world like JKTI Deputy General Vodafone, Manager Jayashree Kadne Ericsson, Sony, says, “The underlying philoso- NEC, 3M phy of all our courses can be when an accredited third party the distinction of becoming an Healthcare, summed up in just a few words such as ours visits an organi- ISO 9001:2000 certified voca- Eastman Kodak – to groom students into high- zation, assesses the manage- tional institute, JKTI has once and Smile - the calibre professionals and em- ment system and issues a cer- again proved itself and upped Internet bank. power them to earn a respect- tificate to show that the orga- its own benchmark. The insti- Starting with able living. Then, whether it nization abides by the prin- tute has 34 branches spread mechanical, work- is a simple chalk-making ciples set out in ISO over Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar shop and electrical course for the local women of 9001:2000. Our Quality Man- Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, courses for hand Latur or the highly skilled agement Systems certificate is Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, skills endowed Whirlpool’s Sarvatha a sign of acceptability which Karnataka and Tamil Nadu students 43 years Samartha, we derive great sat- saves our clients from having and is poised to take off on a ago, JKTI isfaction from the fact that we to prove their quality sprint of further growth and graduated to have opened up one more standards to discriminating expansion. 2 October 2004 - March 2005 Christopher Levenson and his wife Oonagh Berry were in ‘In a dark blue sari’ India recently as visiting faculty Warm and Welcoming at the Kohinoor Business School. In a dark blue sari This is what he had to say while Christopher Levenson, who was at Kohinoor Business School recently as a beautiful, he was here: lithe young woman visiting faculty from Carleton University, describes what makes it special most likely a dalit, plucks t’s good to be back in India: This visit is our longest. We’ve always on the move. we’re happy enough here, plastic and paper scraps this is my fourth visit and been here a good three months. As for KBS, people could enjoying the brilliant flowers from the tracks at Imy wife Oonagh’s second. And it’s satisfying too to get to not have been more welcom- and trees, the sun rising over Lonavala Junction, (I was here for the first time for know one place really well, for ing, - Dr Bigyan Verma, my the nearby mountain, and thrusts them into ten weeks in the Fall of 1986.) on previous visits we were faculty colleagues, the stu- especially the moderate, dry a garbage bag, dents, the security guards and heat rather than the minus 10o then as horns sound Christopher Levenson was born in London, England, in the domestic staff have all C and the snow that has settled a warning 1934 and was educated at the Universities of Cambridge quickly made us feel at home in Ottawa. Moreover, in be- gracefully steps aside and Bristol in the UK and the University of Iowa in the here, in total contrast to my last tween classes and long, healthy for the Deccan Express.... United States He has taught English at high school level in teaching assignment in 2002 at walks, I’ve even managed to - Christopher Levenson England and the Netherlands, was for three years English the State University of St Pe- write a few new poems. Lektor at the University of Muenster in Germany and from tersburg in Russia. 1968 until his retirement in 1999 taught English Literature, All the same, after teach- Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Carleton ing at Carleton for 31 years, University, specializing in poetry, autobiography and, more with over 20,000 full-time stu- recently, South Asian Literature in English. He has pub- dents, most of whom I don’t lished ten books of his own poetry, the most recent being even know by sight, let alone The Bridge in 2000, and two books of verse translations by name, it’s unusual to run into from 17th century Dutch, as well as many literary reviews the 32 students in the corridors and articles. He co-founded a literary magazine Arc, which and at every meal time. Alto- he edited for its first ten years, and was for five years Series gether, on our hilltop overlook- Editor of an imprint of Carleton University Press, devoted ing the village we feel almost to publishing first books of poetry. like members of a gated com- Christopher Levenson and Oonagh Berry Both before and during his time in Ottawa he has trav- munity, a monastery perhaps. at Kohinoor Business School elled widely in Europe, North America, Asia and It’s strange too to be Australasia, often accompanied by his wife, Oonagh. His teaching in a business college Oonagh Berry was born in Connections other interests include music, especially classical, opera and since my whole life has been Dublin, Ireland. She has - For Brian Dixieland jazz, the visual arts and architecture and animal devoted to literature, but even lived in Canada since 1968. I watch a small boy life and he was delighted to be back in a country where if I’m here to give the students She retired recently from pretend his hand is a phone; cricket is the dominant sport. practice in writing reports and Amethyst Women’s Addic- his fingers mimic the dialing, business letters, I’m hoping that tion Centre, where she his voice the sound of the ring. A pat on the back for Shahrukh some of my literary enthusiasm worked for 23 years as an ad- His friend answers, unseen, “We want to say a very special thank you to Shahrukh will rub off on them since, for dictions counsellor. and they begin their chat Shahnavaz and his team of workers who made sure me at least, business should also She has had short sto- in Marathi. we had every comfort from the time we arrived to the involve the kind of imagination ries and poems published in day of our departure. Shahrukh is an exceptional man- and vision that literature pro- both Ireland and Canada, and Sixty years ago in Ireland, ager and no amount of words could describe his at- motes. Certainly Khandala’s is co-author of a book of you and I played the same way. tentiveness to us and our gratitude to him, from mak- picturesque setting should help. letters which will be pub- With empty cans tied to a long ing sure we got the right train tickets, taking care of our laundry, True, Oonagh and I have lished in the autumn of string we yelled our secrets to speaking to rickshaw drivers when we went out on outings and made forays into Pune and will 2005.