AIMS National Management Week at International School of

Informatics and Management (IIIM)

Upholding the Motto “Not Me, But You”, IIIM organized various activities in the weeklong

chain of events as a part of the 27th AIMS Annual Management Education Convention on

“Mission Mode, Public Policy and Strategic Perspective: The Role of Management

Institutions” from 1st to 7th August 2015. Activities undertaken during the National

Management week were as follows:

Day 1: Tree Plantation Drive and Sports activities

Day 2: Visit to a NGO- Saksham

Day 3: Visit to an Old Age Home- Prem Niketan

Day 4: Promote the Talent

Day 5: Earn and Donate

Day 6: Health Check-up camp

The activities conducted under the aegis of AIMS National Management week served by

inculcating and enhancing the social spirit of students and setting off the new academic

session 2015-16 on a high note.

Day 1 (1st August, 2015, Saturday) : TREE PLANTATION DRIVE

With a view to check environment degradation and make surroundings clean and green, IIIM, carried out a tree plantation drive on inaugural day of AIMS National Management Week. The event was preceded by a talk on Environment conservation by Environmentalist and Horticulture specialist Mr Umesh Parashar, Emphasizing on the challenges and risks of environmental degradation and suggested many ways in Which student’s community can contribute to environment conservation. Mr Parashar also suggested Ways for energy conservation passing on the motto “power saved is power produced”. The students of IIIM, highlighting the need and significance of social service activities which focus on combined participation of students and faculty in social service to build a better society, develop among them a sense of social and civic Responsibility, and utilize their knowledge and skills in finding practical solutions to individual and Community problems.

In line with Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi’s swacch bharat campaign to keep city green and clean, initiatives were taken for cleanliness drives, mass tree plantation and other schemes for protection and conservation of the environment. Environment is nothing but a place where we live and a healthy environment is necessary to lead a healthy life. But in recent decades, we have created many problems to our

planet due to our greediness. We forgot Mahatma Gandhiji's words "Earth gives every man's need, but not his greed". Human race’s greed has led to many problems like pollution, new diseases, climate change and their chain effects like less raining, excess flood, natural disasters etc. Raising awareness for understanding our responsibility and playing a part in environment conservation is pivotal to the success of Environment conservation

initiatives. With this view a total of 500 saplings of Neem, Ashok and Mango tree were planted in and around Institute’s backyard play-area and in nearby community Parks. Around 50 fruit bearing trees of Jamun, Lemon and Guava were planted around nearby slums and the people living there were explained the benefits and rewards of those trees and were motivated to take care of those saplings and plant more trees in their community.

Sports Activities

On day 1 of AIMS National Management

Week, sports activities were also organized

for the students of IIIM, to make them

understand the importance of all-round

development and team-spirit. Students

played the games of Volleyball and

Badminton under the guidance and

supervision of Mr Surendra Singh, in-charge

sports activities IIIM.

The sports activities organized, served the

dual purpose of students getting the knowledge of techniques to play better and also to

know about various opportunities in these sports in and around city.

Day 2 (3rd August, 2015, Monday) : NGO visit

On Day 2 of AIMS National Management Week,

students of IIIM visited an NGO- SAKSHAM, to explore

opportunities for contributing to welfare of society.

Saksham is an initiative to support youth and helping

the children who lack information and facilities because

of poverty, impoverishment or lack of

stimulation. Saksham also envisions spreading

awareness and prevention of blindness and promote

eye donation and child education. This not only helps

them to access decent employment opportunities but

also helps in

wholesome

sustained upliftment of the society.

It has even gone a step further and committed

through its Country Strategy Programme. CSP

targets for vocational training under overarching

household economic security are:

50000 girls will receive market-oriented

vocational training.

500000 women will work their way out of poverty.

IIIM’s students were divided in a team of 5 students in each group and were asked to talk and

motivate people living in a nearby slum area so that they send their children for education

and take-up vocational training and acquire skills to

be a trained workforce.

At the end of the visit team interacted with the

caretakers and discussed the challenges faced by

them. Students also spread the awareness about

various schemes and medical benefits by

government like free vaccination of children, free

medicines and diagnostic facilities, free education

under RTE, polio campaign, control the

overpopulation and sanitation etc.

Day 3 (4th August, 2015, Tuesday): Old Age Home Visit

As a part of a socially responsible citizen,

we should help and give as much as we

can. Carrying forward the same spirit on

DAY 3, IIIM students went to Prem Niketan

Old Age Home, who not only caters to

physical needs of elderly person but also

the moral and psychological needs. This

ashram works in propagating humanism

by providing a range of social services.

Students of IIIM went there to make

inhabitants of the ashram smile and share some happy moments to make them forget all the

difficulties or problems they face in daily

lives. Various games like antakshri, passing

parcel etc were played and everybody

participated with great enthusiasm.

Students also sang a song and danced with

the residents.

To make it more helpful students took a

vow to visit Prem-Niketan on regular basis

to interact with the people living there and

to spend a full day with them listening

their stories or experiences they have gone through. Playing some games and sharing lunch

with inhabitants makes a positive change in otherwise monotonous life of the residents. This

not only touches their hearts but also brings spark in their eyes.

Day 4 (5th August, 2015, Wednesday): Promote the Talent

As we all know that newer generations are getting more and more multi-

talented and innovative, thus to foster their learning self-grooming,

make over and a platform is required for their talent promotion. In order

to enhance talent on the 4th day of the AIMS National Management

Week, team Satguru production visited IIIM’s campus to share their

experiences and also choose students who are talented and are in

search of exposure or platform which could polish their talent and help

them in pursuing it further.

Thus, Satguru production offered an opportunity for the students

who are passionate about dancing, singing, acting and modelling.

They not only guided the students with their professional

performances but also took auditions of the IIIM students so that

they can also work on various projects and live their passion.

Interested students performed with great enthusiasm and zeal and

on the basis of their performance, they got professional guidance for

developing their skills and talent further. On the basis of performance

in auditions a few students were selected to get an opportunity to

work with Team Satguru.

Day 5 (6th August, 2015, Thursday): Earn and Donate

Happiness doesn’t result from what we get but

from what we give. With this motive Students of

IIIM on 5th Day of AIMS National Management

Week earned to donate for the social cause.

Students were grouped into teams and were given

a nominal amount in which they had to purchase

any product. The teams were expected to come up

with a product or service with the initial investment

that they can sell and make a profit on. This activity

was designed to teach students the basics of

entrepreneurship such as marketing, making

investment decisions, managing cash flow. Some of

the ideas implemented by student groups included,

one group targeting people at public place like

Birla-Mandir and Motidungri to sell rakhis while

one other group went to the college campuses like

The IIS university to sell tiaras. Profits after

deducting the costs incurred by the groups will be given for the social cause like donating

food items or stationery to the NGO or underprivileged children.

Day 6 (7th August, 2015, Friday): Health Check- up Camp

The objective of the camp was to provide free health check up and to spread awareness regarding some common measures that can be taken to prevent lots of health related issues. Camp was organized at IIIM campus by setting up an ad-hoc clinic for checking the blood pressure and blood-sugar test of the students.

During the camp Dr. R C Maheshwari, Physician,

Apex Hospital briefed student about the good

and healthy eating habits. Dr Maheshwari

highlighted the role of healthy food in keeping

oneself healthy and also about the benefits of

different types of foods. Apart from it some

other eating habits which may cause negative

impact on health were also told.

Foods to Eat: Green leafy vegetables, nuts, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, beans and

peas, fresh low-sugar fruits (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, pears,

cantaloupes, grapefruit, and cherries) etc.

Foods to Avoid: High-sugar fruits like pineapple, raisins, apricots, mangos, chickoo, grapes

etc.