Opulence is IT-BHU’s yearly management fest organized by the Industry-Institute Partnership Cell(IIPC) IT-BHU. To prepare students for the main event to be held from the 12 to the 14 of January 2007, Team Opulence conducted a workshop series-Pragyan-on the 14th and the 15th of October 2006 in G-11. The workshops were conducted by Mr Pramod Joshi, an alumnus of IT-BHU and IIMB, and Mr Rajat Dutta, an alumnus of IT-BHU and IIMC. Both men have extensive industry experience in India and abroad.
Pragyan got underway on October 14th before a packed G-11. The audience comprised of students from the Faculty of Management Studies, BHU; the School of Management Sciences, Varanasi; the Faculty of Statistics, BHU; Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, BHU and the Faculty of Fine Arts, BHU besides the students of IT-BHU. The first workshop was on Case studies conducted by Mr Pramod Joshi. A power failure brought a premature end to events on the 14th of October and one workshop was postponed till the 15th.
The events on October 15th commenced with Mr Rajat Dutta conducting a workshop on Buisness Plan writing. Think Without Ink – a special workshop on analytical reasoning and problem solving by Mr Pramod Joshi, intended to help students prepare for CAT and other examinations, followed. The events ended with a Q&A session on business communication conducted by Mr Pramod Joshi.
(Reported by Ankit Khanna, 2nd Engineering Physics)