Director IMT Hyderabad Prof Panduranga Rao Visits Shridhar University Pilani Rajasthan
Located in the heart of Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, Pilani is well known in India today for various top ranking educational institutions, CSIR Laboratory CEERI as well as the upcoming BrahMos Missile Assembly Project unit.
- (1888PressRelease) October 10, 2011 - Prof Panduranga Rao is presently Director of name to reckon with Lead the Future Institute of Management Technology - IMT Hyderabad campus which is the fourth campus in addition to already existing Ghaziabad, Nagpur and Dubai campuses. The IMT Hyderabad campus was inaugurated by Mr Kapil Sibal Honourable Minister of HRD & IT in the first week of July along with Mr Kamal Nath Minister of Urban Development and Mr Kiran Reddy CM of Andhra Pradesh.
Prof Rao holds a PhD from Birla Institute of Technology and Science - BITS Pilani where he had spent two decades as Professor and Dean of Practice School resulting in setting of new benchmarks in industry university collaborations. Prof Rao also was the founding Director ICFAI Business School Hyderabad spearheading it to make it one among the top ranking among B Schools. For ICFAI University Dehradun in Uttarakhand he was the first Vice Chancellor. For ICFAI Hyderabad he had also been Chief Academic Advisor and for Winzest Edutech Pvt Ltd he has played the role of CAO - Chief Academic Officer.
Prof Rao was on a visit to Pilani during October 7-9, 2011 as a special invitee by the alumni of 1982 - 1986 who were celebrating their Silver Jubilee Reunion (SJR). True to the Great saying from Taittiriya Upanishad 1.11: Matri Devo Bhava Pitri Devo Bhava Ăchărya Devo Bhava - Let your Mother Father & Teacher be God, the alumni of BITS have a rich tradition of honouring at the SJR their favorite professors who had taught them during their student years.
On 09 October 2011, Prof Rao took time off his busy itinerary and visited Shridhar University, Pilani. Prof BR Natarajan Pro Vice Chancellor who himself had been a student of Prof Rao at BITS gave an overview of the genesis of the institution, the salient educational features as well as curriculum focus on broad based interdisciplinary approach coupled with industry partnerships to enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and achieve the impossible. Prof Rao expressed his happiness over the way the new university was shaping up and was kind enough to offer his advice and whole hearted cooperation as and when required.
About Shridhar University: An initiative of the Sarvhit Trust, Shridhar University Pilani has been established under Section 2(f) of UGC Act 1956 incorporated by Government of Rajasthan vide Ordinance No. 3 of 2009 and the same ratified by the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly vide Act No. 4 of 2010 as The SHRIDHAR UNIVERSITY ACT BIGODNA, JHUNJHUNU. Further, Vide letter F.No 8-3/2010(CPP-I/PU) dated 31 May 2010, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has also notified Shridhar University under Section 2(f) of UGC Act 1956. ISO 9001:2008 certified Shridhar University has 11 Schools of Learning offering various Certificate, Diploma, Under Graduate, Post Graduate as well as Doctoral programmes. In order to prepare students for a global future, Shridhar University has actively taken up collaborations with various national & international institutions and already has signed MoU with top ranking Athens University of Economics and Business - AUEB, Greece.
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