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Events and happenings at Birla Institute of

Management Technology(BIMTECH)

T he beginning of the year 2021 started at Birla "Majlis" organized an interdepartmental, student-faculty,

debate competition. The topic for the debate was a highly
Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH)
with good news coming from all quarters for the
controversial notion, "Internet: A Friend or A Foe for Human
Post Graduate Diploma in Business
given the name "Wise" and students are called "novices".
Management(PGDM) - Insurance Business Management Rights". The regular event has a format where faculties are
programme. Faculties and students from different business management
Student Achievements specialization streams compete and speak for and against
a topic. The team from the PGDM (Insurance Business
Events and Awards Management) programme comprising of Prof. Pratik
Virtual Business Professional(VBP) in collaboration with Priyadarshi and Vasu Gupta came runners up in the debate
Marshall School of Business(USA) and grabbed the coveted title of winners.
Students of BIMTECH completed on a global level along with The importance of student-faculty debate is immense when
students from 16 universities located in the USA, Germany, it comes to the advantages it has to offer to the students
Spain, Taiwan, etc. Amazon, Netflix and Google were as well as the audience. The students get to learn a lot from
project partners. the faculty members they are paired up with. Also, the
Using a social collaboration platform powered by Artificial quality of arguments raised by the teams is enhanced with
Intelligence, students in each planned and held virtual the involvement of faculty members in the debate.
meetings, collaboratively conducted and research, co- The Theatre and Debating Society of BIMTECH will continue
authored documents and used project management tools to organize such events in the future that contribute to the
to find solutions. overall growth of the students and provide a great
5 students from BIMTECH were part of the winning teams opportunity for learning and growth.
out of 10 teams. SaniaShaheen from Insurance Business Faculty Achievement
Management Programme mentored by Prof.(Dr.) Archana Research Synergy among Faculty and Students
Srivastava got 3 rd. position and was awarded by Google.
In order to foster research mind set and multidisciplinary
Late Shri G.D. Birla Academic Merit Scholarships approach among students, Prof Saloni Sinha, Faculty of
The objectives of Late Shri G.D. Birla Scholarships areto Business Communication and Prof Manoj K Pandey, Faculty
motivate students for continuous improvement in their of Marketing, offered an innovative collaborative research
academic performance. project to students. As a successful outcome of this
Anirudh Lal and Karan Tyagi students of the 2020-2022 pedagogical innovation of offering "module by research", a
Batch of PGDM (Insurance Business Management) research paper titled " An Exploratory Study of Advertising
programme were the scholarship awardees. Roshy Saini and Appeals of Life and Health Insurance Advertisements in
Syed Madhat Ali students of the 2019-2021 Batch of PGDM India" was presented at the 4th International Conference
on Marketing, Technology & Society organised by Indian
(Insurance Business Management) were granted Institute of Management, Kozhikode on December 7, 2020.
scholarships.
Two students of PGDM Insurance 2019-21 batch, Ms Shreya
Debate Competition Rakesh and Mr Peeyush Singh co-authored the paper along
The Theatre and Debating Society of BIMTECH known as with the faculty.
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