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23 rd August 2020: The Finance & Economics Club

of the Institute, hosted Mr Ankit Jindal, Inspector, Central
Goods & Service Tax, Customs & Central Excise Dept.,
MoF, GoI, He addressed the students on Portfolio Manage-

ment using Financial Instruments.

Faculty Development Programmes

IIMV has been conducting several major Pro- 21 st August, 2020. This was the 1 st Online FDP

grams like the flagship Two-Year Post-Graduate hosted by the Institute to benefit researchers in rede-
Programme in Management (MBA), Two-year signing their ongoing research and to make it more

Post-Graduate Programme for Executives useful for decision-making in business. The objective
(PGPEx, MBA), Two-Year Post-Graduate Pro- of this online programme was to provide a framework
gramme in Digital Governance and Management and necessary data-analytic tools required to

(PGP-DGM, MBA) and PhD Programme in Man- process large numeric datasets and generate infer-
agement. In the past, IIMV conducted several ences which can be used for data-driven decision

Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) and making. The Programme focused on examples from
Management Development Programmes (MDPs) various management domains. Apart from learning
including TEQIP (Technical Education Quality data-analytic tools, the participants gained exposure

Improvement Program). The ongoing pandemic to statistical software, R for data analysis. The train-
presented an opportunity to design a new online ing aimed at facilitating knowledge-sharing among
Programme for the faculty members, research the participants and the resource persons, providing

scholars, and research associates / academic insights into effective data management practices.
associates who wished to develop their skills 98 participants from 4 countries were a part of this
using data analytic tools and applications. program. This Program was conducted by Profes-

sors Bhargab Chattopadhyay and Shivshanker
Accordingly, a five-day online Faculty Develop- Singh Patel, from the Decision Sciences Area of the

ment Program (FDP) was organized from 17 th – Institute.

Launch of the New Edition of

Women Start-up Program

IIMV-FIELD signed an MoU for conducting another edition of Women Start-up Program with IIMB Innova-

tions (IIMBI), a constituent of NSRCEL.

Applications were invited from women entrepreneurs from all sectors with ideas and early stage start-ups

to apply for the Women Start-up Program. The eligibility criteria were - applicant(s) should be above 18
years of age and Indian national(s); she should be the founder/co-founder of the idea or the venture.

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