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Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME 8 NUMBER 29 JULY - SEPTEMBER 2016 RAJAGIRI H I G H L I G H T S VOLUME 3 An IQAC Initiative NUMBER 36 OCTOBER. - DECEMBER 2018 VALLEY CAMPUS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Rajagiri National Business Quiz The students came in their traditional ethnic attire. Students performed dance forms like Garba, Dandiya The Grand Finale of the Ninth edition of Rajagiri and celebrated Deepavali. National Business Quiz was held on October 13, 2018 at RCBS Campus. Teams from the student and corporate categories participated. PES University, Bangalore and TCS, Chennai were the grand finale winners in the student and corporate categories respectively. Mr. Mitesh Agrawal, Vice President and CTO, Oracle India was the Quiz Master. Mission Workshop Mission workshop was held on November 10 , 2018. Dr. Bala Krishnamoorthy, Associate Dean Accreditation & Professor, NMIMS was the resource person. The aim of the workshop was to articulate the mission of Rajagiri Business School. Diversity Day Diversity Day was celebrated on November 16, 2018 with performances from various cultures - the Tamil, Kannadigas, Telugu, Gujarat, Bengal, Manipurian, Bihar, Korean, German, French and Italian within our campus. Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME-3 NUMBER-36 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2019 Faculty Development Program FDP on Research Analytics and Research Methods was conducted on November 20 , 2018. The resource persons were Dr. Subhasree Nag and Mr. Vishav Sharma from Clarivate Analytics AACSB-Mentor Meeting AACSB-Mentor Meeting was held on November 17 & 18, 2018. Dr. Arun Elias, Associate Dean, International & Accreditation, Victoria Business School, Wellington, New Zealand visited the campus. NBA Accreditation National Board of Accreditation extended the period of Accreditation Status of Post Graduate Diploma in Management program offered by Rajagiri Business School to June 30 , 2019. Social Sensitization Programme The Social Sensitization Camp for the Academic year 2018-19 for the MBA, MHRM, PGDM students was held from December 16 at Attapadi, Palakkad. The entire camp activity was undertaken by student teams, from cooking and cleaning, project work as well as evening entertainment programmes for which the entire neighborhood was invited. Inflore 2018 Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies conducted two-day INFLORE- Management Fest on 5th and 6th October 2018. This year the theme was 'Circus- A Thousand Spotlights'. Chief Guest was Shri. P Thilothaman, Hon. Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Kerala. 2 Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME-3 NUMBER-36 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2019 Josh Talks International Student exchanges work for the welfare of the communities – A model for India – China RCBS was venue partner for Josh Talks which brought in Collaborations” in 'The International Conference on Tan 40 speakers from different spheres of life. The program Yunshan' in Shenzhen University, China. Conference was was held on 8th and 9th of December 2018. on 3rd and 4th of November 2018. After the Conference he visited Tongji University in Shanghai, IAESTE – China office and Zhejiang University and held discussions for possible collaborations. Student Achievement MHRM students Ms. Abhirami Vinod, Ms. Anna Philip and Ms. Aishwarya M Pai won 2nd prize for Research Faculty achievement Paper presentation at Employees Federation of India, • Prof. Simon Jacob C has been awarded National Conference. PhD on the topic “Influence of human Rajagiri HR Fraternity Meet 2018 resource management practices on service quality in the hospital sector: Rajagiri HR Fraternity Meet 2018 on the topic “Building An integrated casual approach” by HR Capability for the New Workplace” was organized by Cochin University of Science and Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies in partnership with Technology on September 17, 2018 under the National Institute of Personnel Management, Kerala guideship of Dr. James Manalel Professor (Retired), Chapter on December 18, 2018.The session was School of Management Studies handled by Mr. S Y Siddiqui, Executive Advisor, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. • Prof. Rofin T M has been awarded PhD on the topic “Game-Theoretic Studies on Dual-Channel Supply Chain Configuration” by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur on November 19, 2018 under the guideship of Prof. Biswajit Mahanty, Professor, IIT Kharagpur. • Prof. Ashis Kumar Pradhan has been awarded PhD on the topic “Inquiries into External Commercial Borrowings” by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur on October 12, 2018 under the guideship of Dr. Gourishankar S. International Affairs Hiremath, Assistant professor, IIT Prof. Promodh U Korula visited China from 2nd to 10th Kharagpur of November for presenting the research paper “How 3 Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME-3 NUMBER-36 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2019 Industry Interactions during the period 1. Mr. A K Subash, DGM-HR, Cochin Shipyard - 3rd October , 2018. 2. Ms. Roopa George, Managing Director of Mayilvahanam Group and partner of Baby Marine Food Exporting Company – 9th October, 2018. Mr. Mihir Mahale, HR Business Partner, Bajaj Electricals – 9th October, 2018. 3. Mr. Praveen Thomas, DGM HR, Malayala Manorama – 12th October , 2018. 4. Mr. Sanjeeth Samuel, Goldman Sachs, Vice President – 15th October , 2018. 5. Ms. Rajashree, Head HR @ TCS – 17th October, 2018. 6. Mr. Neeraj Agarwal, Sr Manager, Spandana Spoorty – 25th October, 2018. 7. Mr. Sathya Kalyanasundaram, CEO, MobME – 30th October, 2018. 8. Mr. Bijoy Jose, Business Unit Manager – Field Instruments and Analyzer Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pvt Ltd – 1st November , 2018. 9. Mr. Siva Prasanth, Branch Head, Appolo Munich - 2nd November, 2018. 10. Mr. Kishore George Co-Founder & Director, Jakes Snacks and Foods Pvt. Ltd - 22nd November, 2018. 11. Mr. Deepak Tejomaya Associate Director – HR (KPMG Cochin) – 6th December, 2018. Children of foster homes in and around Kochi TRANSCEND participated in the programme and rendered out their exquisite talents. The other guest of the day was the CRAYONS '18 – Launch group from Government Girls' Home, Kakkanad. The CRAYONS 2019 kicked off with its launch on December theme selected for this year was "Live your dream", 6th at RCBS Amphitheatre and the main theme was focusing on the inner power human beings. unveiled by Master Eric Zachariah, Neeraj Madhav (film artist) & singer Amrutha Suresh The Thanks Giving Day – for the House Keeping Staff of Rajagiri The Thanks Giving Day, an initiative to appreciate the services rendered by the non-teaching community of Rajagiri, including administrative and house-keeping staff, was organized on 4th December 2018 at the Conference Hall, Rajagiri Valley Campus. 4 Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME-3 NUMBER-36 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2019 The Guest of the day was Prof. Aby Abraham. After song to Home of Faith, to celebrate Christmas with Santa to and speeches, students invited everyone for a tea and bring gifts, smiles and carols to the residents of the gifted every non teaching staff with a wall clock with the house on 14th December 2018. Transcend logo. Newsletter - Transcend “Esperanza" - a Rajagiri TRANSCEND publication highlighting the activities in the academic year 2017-18 was released on November 2018. Christmas Celebration at "Home Of Faith" HOME OF FAITH is a charitable trust run by the Catholic Sisters for mentally challenged children. As part of the Christmas celebrations, Rajagiri Transcend reached out HILL CAMPUS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Achievement ENCON club of Rajagiri College of Social Sciences got the Best ENCON Club Award in the year 2018 for Energy Conservation, Flood-Related Activities and Environmental Protection. Session on “Young people and mental health” NSS Social Sensitisation camp As part of World Mental Health Day celebration, an academic session on 'Young People and Mental Health' NSS Social Sensitisation camp was conducted at was held on 10th October 2018 led by Dr. Sanju George. Puthenvelikkara near Saratha Vidyamandir from 17th MSW students were divided into different groups and to 22nd December 2018 for BSW and NSS volunteers. they had made presentations regarding health and The Camp focused on reconstructing a demolished wall wellbeing. of an LP school. This project was held with the assistance of SEEDS, a Delhi based NGO, wherein the broken down Rajasadass bricks and cement blocks were re-used for the wall construction. School of Social Work conducted Rajasadass - An Open forum for deliberations on social issues on 27th House construction for a flood affected family November 2018 at Chavara Hall on the Topic 'Supreme A house was constructed for a flood affected family in Court scraps section 497 of IPC'. Kottapuram by Department of Social work with support DYUTI Pre-conference of College Management. The blessing of the house was held on 5th January 2019. V. D. Satheeshan MLA handed DYUTI Pre-conference on the Theme “Multi Sectoral over the keys to the family and interdisciplinary responses to Health and well- being” was held on 18th December 2018. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Joseph I. Injodey, scrap book was released by Dr. Anish K.R. and Dr.Lizy P.J. Both MSW and BSW students presented papers based on DYUTI conference themes. 5 Relentlessly towards Excellence VOLUME-3 NUMBER-36 OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2019 National Dignity March Department of Social work hosted a welcome to the National Dignity March organized by the Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan, a Delhi based organisation on 29th December 2018. The march started on 20th December 2018 from Mumbai against the issues of Violence