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EditorR Prasad

Managing EditorGRK Murty

Consulting EditorSyed H Maqsood

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Hello Folks

The last couple of months have been pretty hectic. I amsure the same must have been the case with you all aswell. It was the last quarter of the financial year. All of

us were busy running around completing our tasks and targetsfor the year.

Inspite of this busy schedule on the work front thecommitment levels of our alumni towards the progress ofINCAS did not deteriorate. This certainly deserves anappreciation. As usual INCAS was buzzing with events atvarious chapters across the country.

The latest one worth mentioning is the INCAS LonavalaSummit 2011 organized in February for the executivecommittee members of various INCAS chapters in the Westernpart of the country. This event is also popularly known as Zonalconference in the alumni circles. The participating chapters inthis summit were Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Pune, Bhopal,Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Nasik, and Vadodra.

It was indeed a memorable get-together of the ChapterExecutive Committee members representing various Chapters.It was nice to see all of them at the Lonavla Summit discussingabout their chapter achievements in the last one year andplanning for the road ahead. These Executive committeemembers are the think tank and the driving force behind thechapters.

It's their leadership abilities and motivational skills thatwill fuel a chapters growth and performance.

Through this Summit and also on various other occasionswe have always encouraged our alumni to take up theleadership opportunities available at INCAS and make the bestuse of it to develop your own individual personality. Thatincludes sharpening ones leadership skills, ability to motivateothers, learn multi tasking, organizational skills and muchmore.

We look forward to many such conferences and summits inthe future being organized by various other zones of thecountry. As usual I would suggest you all to play an active rolein every sphere of alumni development. Let's explore new ideasand new possibilities to emerge as a strong alumni body in thecountry called INCAS!

"No idea works unless you work on the idea!"

Good luck and stay in touch!

Syed H Maqsood

Dear Alumni

Traditional New Year Greetings to all of you! Mostregions have their traditional new year in April thisyear. Beyond diversity, we get to see the commonalityin culture and tradition. It is much like the valuesshared by institutions in The ICFAI University group.

The year that went by witnessed good progress of thegroup. We have been at work to establish Universitiesand approved institutions in several parts of the country.We are happy to share with you the excellent progress wehave made so far. The ICFAI University at Raipur hasbeen notified on March 25th, 2011. The Universitycampus is ready and fully equipped. We are justplanning to launch our programs and start the academicschedule by August. To begin with, B.Tech, BBA andMBA programs will be offered. In Jaipur and Baddi(near Chandigarh) in Himachal Pradesh, theconstruction of campuses is complete with all thefacilities. Enactments/notifications of the ICFAIUniversity, Jaipur, and ICFAI University, HimachalPradesh, are expected very soon. We hope to commenceour academic programs in 2011. In Nagpur, campusconstruction is completed and we await AICTE approvalto commence a PGDM program this year itself.

You may be aware that eight ICFAI Universities werein existence in 2010 ie State Universities inUttarakhand, Tripura, Sikkim, Mizoram, Nagaland,Meghalaya, Jharkhand and a deemed University atHyderabad. With the new institutions, the groupwould have its operations in 12 states across thecountry. In addition, the ICFAI University Act inOrissa has been passed, and we are awaiting approvalof building plans. We expect operations to commence in2012. In Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Dewas (MadhyaPradesh),Guwahati (Assam) and Sangrur (Punjab),Letters of Intent have been issued by the respectivestate governments for establishment of Universitiesand land acquisition has been completed. InBengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Kolkata, and Pune,land acquisition is completed and work is in variousstages of land/ building approvals and construction. Inthese locations, academic programs would commenceduring 2012 and 2013.

E ditor Speak

We are also happy to inform you all that new programshave been introduced in different Universities such asB.Sc in Allied Health Sciences and Applied BiologicalSciences, M.Tech, M.Sc in Applied Biological Sciences,Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication, PhDetc. All programs are employment oriented and haveinternships and placement services. With this we hope toincrease career diversity and provide more options tostudents. Some of the ICFAI University programs havestarted being ranked the best.

The Faculty of Science and Technology of the ICFAIUniversity, Dehradun, has been ranked AA by Careers360, 2nd best in Industry Interface by Dataquest in2010, 13th best Private Engineering College byElectronics for You etc. The Faculty of Science andTechnology at IUT has been ranked AA by Careers360. We expect that these rankings will improve andmore programs get ranked.

We remain committed to our vision of establishing apan-Indian network of Research and TeachingUniversities in different states to ensure high qualityacademic delivery and to promote a strong researchculture among the faculty members.

INCAS has been connecting to its alumni networkthrough various events such as, the INCAS Networkmagazine and the Alumni website. Recently we haveorganized the first Zonal Conference for West Zone aspart of our efforts to network amongst various chaptersand to initiate more ownership from chapters. We hopeto increase the value of the network to alumni membersas we go along. In the days to come we also hope to enableyou to connect to future alumni of the group institutionsfor mutual benefit. The large network of Universitiesand other institutions seek to create a future whichenables this.

Please feel free to give feedback and/or suggestions tostrengthen and improve INCAS activities [email protected] and/or any other forumthat you participate in.

May the New Year be auspicious for you.

Yours truly,

R.Prasad

C O N T E N T S

‘U’ to Us ............................................. 04

REMINISCENCES .............................. 05

Meet the INC Couple ........................ 06

incas Lonavala Summit ....................... 08

ALUMNI MEETS ................................ 10

Cricket Match @ Bhopal ................... 16

Wedding Bells ..................................... 17

Jokes ................................................... 19

Your Take ........................................... 19


‘U’to USPlease tell us something about

yourself?

I come from a small family of fivemembers. This includes me, both myparent’s a brother and a sister-in-law.I belong to Rohtak and have done myschooling from Shiksha Bharti School.I completed my graduation in BA fromMDU, Rohtak, and went on to pursuemy PGDBA from INC, Gurgaon. I amemotional as a person and always lookforward to a change or something newin life. I love to interact with peopleand I easily adapt to a change.

How you have built your career

after your PGDBA at INC?

I was pretty excited when I bagged myfirst job at Café Coffee Day after myPGDBA. My brother being my idealsuggested me some Do’s & Don’ts inlife. He inspired me to just believe inmyself and advised me to always givethe best at anything I do. I faced manyproblems initially but everything beganto settle down for good with time. Now Iam running my own IT Company inGurgaon and its called GAP Infotech.My first job was a learning experiencefor me in many ways.

What business are you exactly into

and what are your areas of expertise?

With the guidance of my elder brother,I launched my company in July 2009.We are into Web & Online Marketing.We are coming up with a projectwww.gurgaonindustry.com which willbe catering to the industries ofGurgaon. We also have other goodprojects coming up like a Job Portal forFresher’s. The idea through this portalis to provide job opportunities only tothe fresher’s unlike many other portalswho focus on experienced people. Indiais fast emerging as a country of “youngpeople with enterprising minds”.Hence wee need to support more andmore young people in various ways tocome up in life. We have a matrimonialportal also being launched shortly.

How do you balance your work and

family life?

At times it’s very difficult to balance workand family life. But with my time

management skills I amable to balance both. Imake it a point not todiscuss professionalmatters while I am athome. I spend good timewith my family and learnfrom my parents how tonurture good relationships.

What according to you

is the ‘Success Mantra’

for our life?

Learn as much as youcan, love ever, hurt never.I always emphasizes on‘give respect and takerespect’. I feel that love isthe only thing that canbring a change in thisworld. Always have anopinion about thingsaround you. I reallythank all my facultymembers at INC,Gurgaon who have helpedme in nurturing my self,my special thanks to Dr.Sonali, Mrs. Kanika,Mrs. Manisha, Mrs.Poonam, Mr. Khullar andMr. Rampal. I have learnta lot from them.

What are your career

aspirations?

I wish to be a tycoon in theIT sector. I wish toprovide my customers thebest services through theuse of latest technology.

What would be your

advice to your friends in

general?

Where there is a willthere is a way. I suggesteveryone to watch themovie “3 Idiots” if theyhave still not seen. Onegood thing I picked upfrom that movie andwould like others also topick up is that you mustkeep saying to your heartthat “ALL IS WELL”!

Manish Dua

Director, GAP

Alumnus of INC - Gurgaon,

Email:[email protected]


Reminiscences

An opportunity ofbeing a part ofMBA 2009 batch

with a lovely institutionlike INC was a wonderfulexperience for life and itproved to be a very goodexposure for myself. Here,right from the beginningwe were trained to be thefuture managers. The bestpart of the curriculum andthe most effective trainingwe received was in the SoftSkill - Lab.

The campus was filled withbright and passionate MBAaspirants. Facultymembers were veryproficient and ever ready tolend a helping hand. Assuch faculty membersalways used to be busytrying to complete hesyllabus on time by takingextra sessions early in themorning or late in theevening. They would helpmeeting the deadline ofweekly project reports andcase study analysis. Duringthe summer internshipprograms they would helpus in understanding thecompetitiveness of anorganization in the marketplace and in experiencingthe real world of businessthrough various sessionsincluding group discussion,mock interviews and brainstorming session.

As such it will take a lot ofpages if I go down thememory lane in this wayto describe my beautifuldays of our MBA and INC.So summing it up alltogether all I can say isthat it was anunforgettable journey.

I personally feel that INCas a management

institution was really awelcome step in a statelike Gujarat where youwill not find suchinstitutions. The over allresponse was also greatfor seeking admissions inINC. The placementswere also satisfactory forall the batches.

After passing out fromINC, life has changedcompletely. Professionallife has its ownopportunities andchallenges. But as such

I N Ch a dg i v e nus aw o n d e r f u lexperience of aprofessional approach inlife right from thebeginning. It is now easyfor us to face challenges inour real business andprofessional life.

It might sound to you likea case analysis on INC,but the reason for sharingsuch fact is being an INC

alumnus, Icarry a

strong senseof belonging to

INC and reallywant INC to flourish inGUJARAT once again inthe future and top the listof best MBA institutionsin the country in the yearsto come.

Dharmesh ZalaMBA

He can be reached atzaladharmesh@

gmail.com



Meet the INC CoupleTell us something about

yourself and your family?

We are a small family ofthree members thatconsists of me, my wifeShampa and daughterArohi who is now 2Years old.

How did you begin your

career after passing out

from INC?Anant: I bagged my firstjob in a bank throughcampus recruitment atINC. I worked in thatbank for two months. ButI always wanted to workin a specific area of myinterest where I can usemy knowledge and skill.Ikept attending interviewsregularly to find asuitable position formyself and luckily I gotinto my dream job at afinancial solutionscompany called M/s.Ocwen financialSolutions Pvt. Ltd.,located in Bangalore.Shampa: During ourfinal semesters Iattended a lot ofinterviews on my ownapart from the campusinterviews at INC., andthrough one of theseinterviews I bagged myfirst job.Presently I am employedwith M/s.Hexaware, inthis company I amtrying to improve on myskills and gainexperience to rise higherin this organization.

What is your role in your

respective Organizations? Is

there a lot of pressure at

work?Anant: I am intoMarket research whichrequires a lot ofconcentration, research& analytical ski l ls .

Every day I come acrosslots of new challenges.The pressure is too highbecause it’s a clienteleservice and it ’s verychallenging to satisfythe global clients.

Shampa: I work as anInternal ITadministrator for anapplication called Siebel.The pressure is quitehigh at times as itrequires 24/7 supportand I got to work inrotational shifts everyweek which is veryhectic.

How do you balance your

work & family life?Anant: It’s really tough tobalance yourself betweenwork & family life andespecially when both areworking. The reality isthat both the partnersmust have a goodunderstanding for eachother and be ready to takeup additionalresponsibilities basedupon situations. Oneshould not think that it’salways men should do theoutdoor and its womenwho are meant to takecare of the householdwork. Both should equallyand impartially sharehousehold responsibilities.Shampa: I totally agreewith Anant.

How do you spend you

weekends and what is your

favorite pastime?

Anant: We hardly gettime for leisure during

week days, but onweekends I would love tospend time with myfamily specially mydaughter who is the lightof my life.Shampa: I preferspending my leisuretime with my family andat get-together’s withfriends.

What would your advice be

to the fellow alumni friends

in general?

Anant: Be focused in yourlife and keep a bull’s eyeview of your aim. Oneshould be focused andalways have faith inoneself even when thegoing gets tough.Shampa: Work hard butparty harder……….

Are you in touch with the

alumni friends. How often

do u all meet.Anant: We hardly gettime to meet with old

Shampa Sharma

Anant SharmaAumni of INCAS, presently

working with Hexaware

and ATIMI.

They can be reached at

[email protected]

[email protected]


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friends as they are in different parts of thecountry, but we do keep in touch throughsocial networking sites like Orkut andFacebook.

Shampa: We are not so lucky to meet our oldfriends often. Orkut and Facebook help tokeep in touch.

What have been your lessons in life so far?

Anant: Be ready for ‘change’ and be adoptiveto those changes. Never take anything forgranted.

Shampa: Work hard but not at the cost ofyour health and priorities of personal life.Balance these two and you will besuccessful.

What are your Career Plans?

Anant: Gain good experience in the presentfield of work and rise to soaring heights.

Shampa: Future is unpredictable. So I willface it as it comes. No plans as of now.


The INCAS Lonavala Summit 2011 for theExecutive committee Members of variousChapters in the West Zone was held on 26 and

27 February, 2011 at Mayur Sterling Resorts,Lonavala. A total number of 26 CEC membersparticipated in the summit. The participatingchapters were Ahmadabad, Ahmednagar, Bhopal,Kolhapur, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nasik, Pune, andVadodra.

The participants interacted during various sessionswith Prof. R. Prasad, Director, Prof. M. BhaskaraRao, Deputy Director, both from the Federation ofUniversities, and other seniors who were associatedwith us like Mr. Paragrane, Col Fransis, and Mrs.Vidya Nair. Each one of them spoke to theparticipants for a few minutes and recollected thenostalgic moments of the lovely campus life at INC.

The summit began with a welcome address by Mr. A.V.Lal, Deputy Manager, INCAS. Mr. Lal also introducedthe other speakers of the day to the audience andexplained the program schedule for the next two days.Mr. R. Prasad and Mr. Bhaskara Rao addressed thesummit and shared their valuable thoughts about thisalumni initiative. They highlighted the advantages ofhaving a strong alumni body like INCAS and the needfor further bonding and enhanced networking amongstthe members. They answered the queries raised by thealumni and shared with them the vision of theInstitution for the near future.

The participating CEC members also spoke about thevarious initiatives taken by them at their respectivechapter level and the events organized so far. Theybrain stormed in groups to come up with plans forchapter development in the immediate future.

The day long summit ended with a lively session onalumni bonding by Mr. Syed H Maqsood, ChiefManager, Alumni Relations at Federation ofUniversities. During this session he spoke about theneed for further developing INCAS stronger and theinnumerable hidden opportunities that lies ahead ofthem yet to be explored.

After the day long session a DJ and a Dance Party wasorganized where the participants thoroughly enjoyedthe evening. This was followed by a gala dinner at thebeautiful lawns of the resort. It was a theme dinnerbased on Kerala, popularly referred to as God’s owncountry and their popular delicacies.

A sight seeing trip was organized the next day wherethe alumni went out together after the breakfast toexplore the lonavala hills and the surrounding touristspots. This was a half a day trip followed by lunch anddepartures.

INCASLONAVALASUMMIT


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Alumni Meets

BHOPAL

CHANDIGARH


Alumni Meets

HYDERABAD

INDORE


Alumni Meets

Kolkata

KOLHAPUR

KOLKATA


NASHIK

NOIDA

Alumni Meets


Alumni Meets

SILIGURI

AHMEDNAGAR


Alumni Meets

BHUBANESHWAR

BERHAMPUR

CUTTACK


Shalin Shroff

and Riddhi

INC- Vadodara

Silpa Satpathy and

Nabendu Mishra

INC- Cuttack

Margi Patel

and Ajay

INC- Vadodara

Anshul Jaitly and

Deepika

INC- Gurgaon

Venkateswara Rao and

Sujatha.

INC- Dilsukhnagar, Hyd.

Swati Asthana and

Ashutosh Saxena

INC- Bhopal

Lipika Mohanty

and Devendra Pati

INC- Bhubaneshwar

INCAS Wishes the Young

Couples a Long and

Happy Married Life


INCAS is offering a complimentary annual online accesssubscription for one of the IUP Magazines/Journals. Werequest you to choose one magazine of your interest. At theend of the year you are required to renew your subscription.

To access online, please follow the procedure outlined below:

A 10-Step Process for online access for IUP Magazine/Journal.

Step 1: Go to www.incasindia.org

Step 2: Alumni members should login with their user id and password.

Step 3: Click on “Publications” link on Welcome Page.

Step 4: Click on the option “Applying for free Magazine”.

Step 5: The member will be re-directed to Magazine/Journalssection of IUP, i.e., www.iupindia.org.

Step 6: A screen displaying your Enroll No. and Name with amessage “Select Magazines/Journals you want to Subscribe” willappear.

Step 7: In case the member has already made an onlinesubscription earlier, then the name of the Magazine/Journal willbe displayed.

Step 8: Type in your name as per the Registration with INCASand submit your request.

Step 9: In case the member has not subscribed earlier, then theselection list of all the available magazines/journals will be displayedfrom which, he/she can subscribe immediately.

Step 10: After registering once, whenever the member logs inwith his/her user id and goes through the normal process, thesubscribed magazine will be displayed online.

Avail the Privilege

To get the complimentary subcription (online), please fill inthe following details:

1. Name :_______________________

2. Enrollment No. :_______________________

3. Year of Completion :_______________________

4. INC Campus :_______________________

5. Publication No. :_______________________

6. Title of the Publication :________________________

7. Mailing Address :_______________________

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I understand that the complimentary online subscription isfor a period of one year, and I am required to renew thesame, one month prior to the expiry of the period forcontinuance of the subscription.

SignatureDate:

Write to:

The Manager – Alumni Relations,INCAS Headquarters,Plot No. 126, Malaxmi Complex, Srinagar Colony,Hyderabad – 500 073. AP., India.email us on [email protected]

The IUP Publications

S.No. Magazine/Journal Main Contents

101 Advertising Express Marketing Research, Client Management,

Advertising Agencies and Marketing

Communications

102 The Analyst New Age Finance, Investment Banking and

E-Business

103 Case Folio Monthly Digest of thought-provoking case studies

in all areas of Business Management

104 Effective Executive Emerging ideas and issues in Business

Management

105 HRM Review Strategic HR, Leadership, Organizational

Development, Knowledge Management and

HRMS

106 Marketing Mastermind Sales Management, Franchising, Branding, PR,

Retailing and CRM

107 Journal of Equity Markets, International Finance and

Applied Finance Regulatory Environment

108 Journal of Information Provides articles on emerging tools, technologies

Technology* and paradigms relating to various aspects of IT,

success stories of IT applications and so on

109 Journal of Management Strategic Management, Corporate Governance,

Research Business Ethics, Benchmarking and Revenue

Models

110 Journal of Systems Focusing on system development methodologies

Management* and automation, database design and

administration, data mining and data warehousing,

Internet technologies, tools and techniques etc.

* Quarterly

Others are monthliy.

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One day an employee sends a letter to hisboss to increase his salary!!!

Dear Boss,

In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing mo$t de$perately. I thinkyou $hould be under$tanding of the need$ of u$ worker$ whohave given $o much $upport including $weat and $ervice toyour company.

I am $ure you will gue$$ what I mean and re$pond $oon

Your$ $incerely,

Norman $oh

The next day, the employee received this letter ofreply:

I kNOw you have been working very hard. NOwadays,NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that ourcompany is NOt doing NOticeably well.

NOw the newspaper are saying the world‘s leading ecoNOmistsare NOt sure if the United States may go into aNOtherrecession. After the NOvember presidential elections thingsmay turn bad.

I have NOthing more to add NOw You kNOw what I mean.

Yours truly,Manager

BUS 54

A lady was visiting Washington, DC for the first time. She wantedto see the Capitol building. Unfortunately she couldn’t find it,so she asked a police officer for the directions.

“Excuse me officer, how do I go to find the Capitol building?”

The officer replied, “Wait here at this bus stop for the number 54bus. It’ll take you right there.” She thanked the officer and hedrives off.

Three hours later the police officer returned to the same areaand saw the same lady is still waiting at the bus stop. The officergot out of his car and said, “Excuse me, to go the Capitol buildingI said to wait here for the number 54 bus, that was three hoursago, why are you still waiting here?”

The Lady replied, “Don’t worry officer, it won’t be too long,the 45th bus just went by!”

SawanINC -Vijaywada

YOUR TAKE

INCAS Networkgives informationabout fellowalumni spreadacross thecountry. Thelayout andcontents of themagazine arefascinating. Iappreciate theefforts of INCAS Network and theteam for presenting such a greatmagazine

K.Upender ReddyINC-Chennai

INCAS Network is a wonderfulplatform to know all about our alumnifriends and also to get updates aboutour own classmates and their presentstatus, which is really very interesting.

Deepika ChoudaryASIM -Chennai

I found INCAS Network very helpfulin networking among all alumnithroughout the country. It is useful toshare our views, thoughts and learnnew things from the articles. Great tosee the photographs of various eventsorganized and get the updates throughit. I enjoy reading the magazine and Iam thankful to the INCAS team fortheir efforts.

Jeevitha AnandINC-Tumkur

The magazine started by INCAS withan idea to share the views and newsamong the alumni is very productivefrom every angle, because it has givenus another chance to know about ourfellow alumni who are scattered acrossthe country. It also helps us to havemore and more interaction with ourold friends and this definitely going tohelp every member of the INCASfamily. Thanks to INCAS team fororganizing events on regular basis evenafter INC closers.

Sheik Mohammed WasiINC-Bhubaneswar

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