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Special Issue April 2012

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Equipping Teachers for Transformation of Youth :

• Career Building• Skills Development• Entrepreneurship

• Employment

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Vice PresidentSh. Ajay Gupta

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NIMA-Office Bearers

PresidentDr. Gulshan Sharma

Executive DirectorITFT Education Group, Chandigarh

Secretary GeneralJ.N. Vohra

Project & Management Consultant

INDIA CAN BE A HUB

Education sector calls for “big reforms”: Kapil Sibal

Punjab Technical University offers Scholarship toSecretary General SAARC for the region with NIMA at SAARC Headquarter, Nepal

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal during his recent visit to Jalandhar said that radical reforms in the country's education sector are underway. He said that that the education sector calls for "big reforms" and various legislations are already under the consideration of the Parliament.Mr. Sibal also informed that efforts are being made in this regard to increase enrolment in higher education by around two-and-a-half times by 2020. Mr. Sibal informed "We will need as many as 800-900 more colleges for the purpose. The number of seats in over 40,000 colleges will also have to be doubled," he higher education, this gap needs to be bridged said. soon," Sibal said. Accusing state governments of The minister stressed on the need for a holistic not coordinating with the Centre while giving nods to approach for skill development, which includes private varsities, Sibal the government "does not identifying the sectors on demand side needing even know" when the bills are passed in the skilled force and preparing the road map for future Assemblies and when these universities start accordingly. He sought the cooperation of UK to functioning.address the problem of shortage of faculty to train the labour force. Skill development has become a lifelong learning process as the technology is advancing at a rapid pace, he said. The new Class 10 certificate to be issued by the Recognising the high demand for skill in the country, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) this Shri Kapil Sibal emphasized on the relevance of the year will show a student's grades in subjects and National Vocational Education Qualifications also in life skills, human resource development Framework for linking various vocational minister Kapil Sibal said on Thursday. qualifications and setting common principles and The certificates will carry grades reflecting their guidelines for a nationally recognized qualifications performance in attitude and values and physical and system. health education, along with grades for subjects like "At present, around 22 crore students go to school mathematics, science, social sciences and out of which, only 70 lakh students finally turn up for languages.

Class 10 certificates to have grades on life skills : Sibal

PTU to Host Integrated Education Conference for SAARC region, on 27th-28th September 2012 at Chandigarh with NIMA as Knowledge and event Partner

"Emerging Trends in Tourism-Hospitality and Service Industry Education in SAARC RegionTourism : Passport to Peace

AdvisorsSh. B.K. Goswami, IAS (Retd.)Former Secretary Tourism, GOI

Sh. Prem Parshant, IAS (Retd.)Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Haryana

Prof. Satinder DhimanWoodbury University, USA

Prof. Robert InbakaranUniversity of Canberra, Australia

Prof. P.S. NarulaEminent Tourism & Hospitality Professional, Thailand

and many other Dignitaries

NIMA eUpdateApril 2012

Punjab Technical University (PTU) offers 8 Scholarships to SAARC students PTU signs MOU with Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal:

NIMA as Knowledge Partner facilitated MOU signing

On 3rd April the members of the delegation called upon

SAARC Secretary General H.E. Mr. Ahmed Saleem from

Maldives and met other senior officials of SAARC. PTU,

through its knowledge partner, NIMA offered 8 scholarships

for the students of 8 Countries of SAARC, one in each

country. It was also decided in this meeting that PTU will host

a SAARC conference on Tourism promotion amongst SAARC

countries for 250 delegates from SAARC countries on World

Tourism Day on 27th September, 2012 at Chandigarh.

Punjab Technical University (PTU), India signed a

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Tribhuvan

University, Kathmandu on 4n April, 2012. Dr. Rajneesh Arora,

Vice Chancellor of PTU and Prof. Hira Bahadur Maharjan,

Vice Chancellor of Tribhuvan University penned their

signatures on the MOU. PTU through its knowledge partner,

NIMA offered 2 scholarships to be availed by bright students

of the Tribhuvan University. Present on the occasion were

Deans and Professors of the Tribhuvan University and

members of the high power delegation of PTU

The delegation was led by PTU Vice Chancellor and President

Dr. Rajneesh Arora, Vice Chancelllor, Punjab Technical University, Indiaaddressing the Faculty, Guests & Press atTribhuvan University, Nepal

NIMA eUpdateApril 2012

Punjab Technical University signs MOU with Royal University of Bhutan

Punjab Technical University (PTU), India signed a Memorandum of promote exchange of students, scholars, and faculty.

Understanding (MOU) with Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) at The two universities also agreed to promote collaborative research Thimphu on 2n April. The signatory to the MOU were Dr. Rajneesh and organize events including conferences, lectures and seminars, Arora, Vice Chancellor of PTU and Dasho (Dr.) PemaThinley, Vice for mutual benefit. The MOU was facilitated by North India Chancellor of RUB. Management Association (NIMA) as knowledge partner to PTU

Present on the occasion were Ms. RadhaVenkatram, first Secretary,

Indian Embassy in Bhutan, Dr. N.P.Singh, Dean Distance Education,

PTU, Er. S.S.Walia, Deputy Registrar, PTU, Dr. DorjiThinley, Dean and

Senior Research Officer RUB, Dr. Gulshan Sharma, President- North

India Management Association (NIMA) and Deans and Director of

Various Constituents and affiliated Colleges with RUB.

MoU contained statement of desire to promote academic and

cultural learning, research, and global leadership in today's high-tech

and multicultural society. Based on their respective academic and

educational priorities, as well as their operational needs and

constraints, the two universities reached an understanding to

During two days visit, the delegation led by Dr. Rajneesh Arora,

Vice Chancellor PTU and NIMA also met Indian Ambassador in

Bhutan H.E. Pavan K Varma, Counsellor Mr. PiyushSrivastva and

Second Secretary Ms. RahaVentakaraman in the Indian

Embassy.

Delegation also called upon Bhutan chamber of commerce and

industries and met officials of various sectors of Industries in

Bhutan. Also, the delegation met Mr. Karma Gayleg of DHI Infra

Ltd., a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) set up by Royal Govt. of

Bhutan to implement an education city on 1000 acres of Land

The Signed MOU is being displayed to the gathered academic Faculty

of RUB, PTU & NIMA Delegates

Dr. Rajneesh Arora, VC PTU & Dr. PemaThinley, Vice Chancellor of RUBexchanging MOU after signing

NIMA eUpdateApril 2012

NIMA signs MOU with Management Association of Nepal andWith IT Association of Nepal for exchange of programs for Skills Development

During the visit to Nepal NIMA signed MOU with Management organization, having strong membership base of over 2,000 Association of Nepal professional individuals and more than 200 corporate MAN, as a National Association of Management professionals organizations as institutional member. It has extensively engaged has been actively engaging in promoting, facilitating and in the development of professional management- through supporting the development of professional management in the research activities, consultancies, and trainings, MAN president country. said that these linkages will enhance mutual cooperation and MAN, today, is recognized as a national non-government relationship among us in promoting, facilitating and supporting

PTU and NIMA Delegation visited Federation of Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industryand interacted with Mr. Suraj Vaidya, President and other members of FNCCI at Kathmandu, Nepal