BIG DAY @ BIG BAZAAR :Sangamesh R Vastrad & Joyson Bandi ,IV semester

First we would like to thank BVB- SMSR for giving this opportunity to be a part of this event (BIG DAY).

The concept of BIG DAY came into existence by Big Bazaar on four particular days of the year. They have started this with the intention to collect huge revenues by providing heavy sale offers.

Big Day - Big bazzar

Well the BIG DAY event which was from 22nd jan to 26th jan 2016. Since these days have a significance of their own for the retail market, huge footfall is expected in the big-day sales.

We have always been tempted to visit BIG DAY sales as volunteers.  But it was a great experience for us to be a part of BIG DAY, however, as far as our experience will go as retailers.

It  helped us to learn practically which was more easier to understand then theoretically, In real life this kind of practical learning will help the students and we can easily understand the classroom learning by doing practical things. In retail industry to reach targets in a particular time is a challenging task which we could achieve it in a given period, and it was possible only because of the learning that we got in our classrooms and which we implemented on the field. Through this event we also analysed different kinds of human behaviours and Etc

Being marketing students it helped us to acquire the on field knowledge about the retail industry and also made us to build our work network with the employees as well as the customers. 

National Conference 28-30th January 2016 at TISS,Mumbai by Dr.S.V.Patil

I was in Mumbai during 28-30 Jan at TISS to participate in National Conference and attend meeting of South Asian Network of Impact Masters (SANIM). It was a highly satisfying experience for the following reasons:

National Conference TISS. Mumbai

Time Management: Prof Majumdar is known for it and maintained that image. All the faculty members of Center for Social Entrepreneurship attended complete three days sessions.

Hospitality: TISS has given us an immense opportunity by extending the invitation for the conference and facilities were excellent.

Program schedule (9.00 am to 7.30 pm): Time allotted for expert speaker and paper presenters was optimal. There was a lot of scope for Q n A to clarify doubts and suggestions.

Expert Lectures: core to the conference theme and speakers were able to bring out there hardcore research experience. I learnt quite a few new and contemporary approaches in research.

Paper Presentations: Unlike in other conferences, papers were carefully scrutinized and called for presentation. Only 3 papers per session (90min), on an average 60 minutes to each presenter, scholar can explain his work better and at the end the whole process was justified with the investment of energy, time, and money.  In many of other occasions, after having invested resources and travelled 100’s of kms, scholars were given 5-7 minutes (including Q n A).

Meeting of SANIM (4th meeting) was also organized to discuss, as name indicates, to strengthen MBA program through the impact on society, economy and environment.  Many new South Asian members from Sri-lanka, Maldives,  and Nepal also attended the meeting.  The agenda was to revise curriculum by incorporating impact component in each course. Institute of Professional Education and Research (IPER) Bhopal did the initial work and it was a good beginning. Detailed discussions were held on the same. Finally it was decided to have special conference on the same and IPER will host it.

Mr Saikat of Arvindo Ashram, Pondicherry shared his experience of the newly designed course on “Self Governing Leadership” and delivered at TISS. Prof. Joy Mitra of Essex University, Colchester, UK urged  other organizations  who have promised similar projects to complete them at the earliest. It was decided to host a web site SANIM.ORG immediately. Prof. Mitra appreciated our Student, Institute and Industry Track (SIIT) and asked to present about the same in the next meeting. Others also appreciated and complemented the track as very unique one, at least in India.
My colleagues from Karnataka Dr H. N. Shivaprasad (JSS, Dharwad), Dr M.V. Alagawadi (Central University, Gulbarga), Dr Chennaveer (Central University, Gulbarga) were also part of the conference. Their presence also gave scope for regional cooperation among B-schools of North Karnataka.

It was an opportunity to understand ourselves better and learn more and more humility.

hubballi to tiruppur journey experience by Nayana Nanu, Semester 4

Madurai city is popularly known as “Athens of the East”,we started our journey from hubballi on 25th December 2015. Madurai is popularly known for its classical, traditional and historical importance.

SMSR KLE Technological University Hubballi

On 26th December 2015 we visited Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai.It is a hospital chain in India. It was founded by Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy at Madurai, Tamil Nadu in 1976. It has many networks of eye hospitals and has a major impact in eradicating cataract related blindness in India. The model of Aravind Eye Care hospitals has been appreciated globally and has become a subject for numerous case studies throughout the world.

SMSR Hubli dharwad

On the same evening we visited the Meenakshi temple and we were thrilled by the elegance of the architecture.  Meenakshi Amman Temple is a historic hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai river. It is dedicated to Parvati, known as Meenakshi, and her soulmate, Shiva named as Sundareswarar. The temple forms the determined part of the 2,500-year-old city of Madurai and is a significant symbol for the residents of Madurai. It was selected in the list of top 30 nominees for the "New Seven Wonders of the World". The temple is regarded as the most prominent landmark and most visited tourist attraction in the city premises. The annual 10-days Meenakshi Tirukalyanam festival, is celebrated during the month of April and May, attracting 1 million visitors globally situated.

On 27th December 2015 we left to beautiful Tiruppur city. There we visited Nethaji Apparel Park which is regarded as sole apparel park in the nation that has been successfully popularized and operated by the apparel industry under the former apparel parks for export scheme of the ministry of textiles. Later we left to NIFT TEA College of Knitwear Fashion, Tiruppur were we had a brief explanation about the functioning of the college and had a round visit of the campus.

The industrial visit to Madurai and Tiruppur was very enlightening and congenial. It also made us be acquainted with the traditions and food habits of Tamil nadu.

Career guidance for rural high school students by Manjunath Guruwin, Semester 1

We conducted a workshop in government school of Shirgoan village for high school 10^th and 9^thstd students for creating the educational awareness.

Career guidance - SMSR

                Initially we interacted with the students and asked them about their interest in education, what they know about career opportunities after schooling. Soon after this session we created a awareness by a role play depicting importance of education.

                 

               As we wanted to know the talents of the rural students we conducted a talent show where the students actively showed their interest and participated in activities like singing, dialogue delivery, Mimicry, puzzle game, pin the tail of elephant and direction games.

             The students were shy in nature but our motivation made them to eliminate stage fear, we were delighted to know that some of them had aims to become district commissioner, army officer, engineers etc. At the end of the session the students gave us the feedback that they got clear picture of choosing their career after schooling which brought smile on our team’s effort.

               

             This is how we were successful in conducting a workshop in shirgaon village by creating awareness about education to the rural high school students.

A study on Rural immersion by Apeksha Shetty, Semester 1

Rural life - SMSR 

Rural immersion study programme was conducted for a short period of four days at Shirgoan, Belgaum.  This study has impacted a lot on us, as it was completely a new experience for us we understood how people in rural areas survive with limited resources and difficulties they face in daily activities. 

Comparing our life with their life, it was painful to know that we are not satisfied with the facilities we have, but even though they are not getting basic facilities they are surviving without many complaints.

We got to know that complaining is a easy job but compromising is a difficult job. Then we learnt how compromising plays a vital role in our life by working in a team and analyzing rural immersion field visits.

There were only few students who belonged to rural background in our batch. Our institution took a step forward towards rural immersion programme to make students realize the concept of rural which would add value to our career and be competitive as future market of our country is in villages.

So finally I thank our institution for coming up with such an innovative learning perception and giving us the opportunity to experience the rural life.

Rural immersion programme experience by Bhargavi.H.Tangod,Semester 1

Rural immersion programme - SMSR,Hubli

We had been to shirgoan, a village near chikkodi, where we studied rural environment. We came to know about the lifestyle ,living standard, resources availability of rural people..

We also visited government schools,farms, hospitals, gram panchayat, APMC and collected required information which helped us to know their current educational status, health issues, current and marketing procedures for the agricultural products of this village.We aimed our field visit on PURA project which is projected by D.A.P.J Abdul Kalam . Based on this project we came out with four connectivity’s that is physical, electronics, knowledge and economics.

According to these connectivity’s we collected information  from the rural people by personally visiting their houses, which helped us to encounter the problems faced by them and came to know how they manage their life with available resources. We came to know the facilities provided to the rural people by government and its ground reality.

We had expert lecture series by BEO,DYSP, PDO, PWD,TMO which was very useful for us to understand  the importance of management practices done in rural area .

BEO explained about the educational system in shirgoan village, how it works,how they the students,teachers and overall educational system with the help of government educational schemes, BRC’s, CRC’s and SDMC.

PDO shared views on the income and expenditure ,total irrigated and non-irrigated land ,major cultivated crops, statistical information of shirgoan village.

PWD officer said about the importance of planning in infrastructure development in rural area. Guest explained how the investigation on cost is made and how tendering process is carried out.

DYSP addressed about police department’s  law and order procedures and explained the importance of controlling on illegal activities, crimes, harassment, child labour in rural areas.

Taluk Medical officer provided awareness about child marriage,child bearing age of women, role of primary and secondary health care services,health care schemes by government.

Through all these interactions we gained knowledge about the particular department in detail and how system works in rural areas.We are very thankful to our faculties and seniors who made our ideas to explore through rural immersion programme.

KLE SMSR outbound trip –fun adventure experience by Swathi Maharajanavar,Semester 1

Kadumane homestay is located 12km away from Dandeli,joida taluk. We met Mr.Narasimha who shared lots of information with us………Joida is one of biggest taluk in Karnataka covered with 93% of forest and is almost as big as goa state.

Fun adventure at KLE SMSR

He gave us information about how mobile tower signals are affecting bees population.King bees have a life span of 4-5 months and queen bees have life span of 4 years. Scientists are trying to know about the essence ejected by this queen bees…this essence if detected is believed to extend human being’s life by 10 times.

Dandeli is blessed with nature and green lush which made our trekking experience memorable.It was totally outdoor unforgettable experience which unleashed our inner monkeys and confidence……there were laughs when we fell , there was concern when we laid behind by clap sounds……..there was coordination near slippery slopes…………..precautions from leeches………at last our stomach was happy and a full packed journey ……………