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Kolkata Insurance Institute holds seminar on Role

of Associated Institutes in Growth of Insurance

Market in India on 21st November 2019 at Floatel,

Kolkata

K olkata Insurance Institute has recently be given larger role for imparting training and awareness

organised National Seminar on ‘Role of Associ-
activities.
ated Institute in Growth of Insurance Market in
In his speech, Mr. Pradip Sarkar, Principal, College of Insur-
India’ at Kolkata. The seminar was inaugurated
ance, Kolkata also urged for more effective and fruitful
by Ms Tajinder Mukherjee, CMD National Insur- program by the associated institutes. He listed out the
ance Company Ltd. Mr. Ravi, General Manager, National measures that can be adopted for reviving the activities of
Insurance Co. Ltd in his welcome address spoke about the the local institutes.
role of Associated Institute in spreading insurance educa-
tion all over India. Mr. Angshuman Roy emphasized on inclusion of insurance
subject in school and college level syllabus to catch the
people young and instill insurance education from basic
level.
Mr Deepak Godbole, Secretary General, Insurance Institute
of India gave an overview of the structure of Insurance
Institute of India and its associated Institutes. He outlined
some of the measures required for more proactive role of
the institutes and participation of the Industry as a whole
for promotion of Insurance education and awareness.

Mr. S. K. Pradhan, General Manager and Director, National
Insurance Co praised the role of Insurance Institute of In-
dia and its associated institutes.
Mr. B. K. Nayak, Working President, Kolkata Insurance In-
stitute, elaborated on the theme of the seminar by ex-
plaining the role of local institutes for the growth of insur-
ance market. He also listed various initiatives taken by the
Institute in promoting awareness in eastern India.
Mr. Sharad Shrivastva, former Secretary General of Insur- The inaugural session followed by the panel discussions ‘In-
ance Institute of India and Executive Director, LIC, who was surance Coverage and Insurance Penetration’. The panel-
responsible for revamping and restructuring the whole ists included Mr R.C.Guria, Mr. P. N. Karmakar, COI Kolkata,
education system at Insurance Institute of India stressed Prof. Dr. Kanika Chatterjee, University of Calcutta and Mrs.
the need for robust education system where the industry Soma Das Ghosh from TCS. Ms. Kasturi Sengupta coordi-
people may benefit. He said the associated Institute must nated the seminar and the panel discussion very aptly.

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