The Centre for Youth Development and Studies

Updated on: Monday, June 08, 2009

Bharathidasan University, conducted a five-day residential workshop on communication skills benefiting 40 students, including 25 girls, from 10 colleges in central districts recently.

The participants were mostly drawn from economics, commerce and management disciplines. Inaugurating the workshop, vice-chancellor M. Ponnavaikko explained that communication was a means to transferring ideas.

S. Iyyampillai Centre Coordinator briefed on how effective communication helps one to excel in interviews and competitive examinations.

The resource persons comprised T. Ganesan, former Station Director of All India Radio; G. Balakrishnan, former vice-principal of St. Joseph’s College; S. Yusuf, former Professor and Head, Department of English, Jamal Mohamed College, S. Natarajan, retired Agricultural Developmental Officer, and P.M. Mansure, principal, MIET Arts and Science College.

S. Sridharan, Controller of Examinations, Bharathidasan University, delivered the valedictory address.

The workshop focussed on training students to write and speak well in English and to translate newspaper articles and essays on current themes.

At a seminar on ‘Production and Operations Management’ organised by Hallmark Business School recently, Ramanathan, Associate Professor, Operations Management, Nottingham University, delineated the subtle difference between production and operations.

While production was the conversion of raw materials into finished product, the intermediate stages were operations. Effective operation in each stage to the satisfaction of customers determined success.

Marketing was closely knitted with production and operations management. Location, layout, logistics, environmental issues and quality development were aspects that decided the efficiency and success of production operations, Dr. Ramanathan said.

On reverse logistics, he said that customers abroad had the right of returning the products if they were not satisfied, within a specified period, usually, 30 days. Design for de-assembly was also important as it facilitated easy scrapping. There were websites providing rating of companies based on customer satisfaction index, said Dr. Ramanathan.

R. Krishnamurthy, chairman, Hallmark Business School, presided. E. Ramasamy, former Director of Technical Education, offered felicitations.

NSS Volunteers of Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College & Research Institute conducted an eye camp at Alampattipudur in collaboration with the Ophthalmologic Department of Mahatma Eye Hospital, benefiting 184 villagers.

The eye check-up to diagnose myopia hypermeteropia and cataract was conducted by J. Ganesh Kumar, ophthalmologist, and a team of 10 nurses. With money generated by the NSS volunteers, free cataract operation was conducted for 10 aged patients at the hospital.

It was followed by a presentation on soil testing by L. Chitra, an expert in the field.

The vice-chancellor of Bharathidasan University, M. Ponnavaikko, conferred degrees on 134 candidates at the annual convocation of Arasu Engineering College, Kumbakonam, recently.

Speaking on the occasion, he said indomitable courage and self-confidence were value additions for a technocrat. India must emulate China in utilisation of human resources, he said, adding that India ranked 12th in economic progress only because human resources were not utilised well. Only through transparency in conduct and tireless efforts could youth succeed in their careers and personal life, he said.

Principal Kamal Basha presented the annual report in the presence of college chairman R. Thirunavukkarasu.

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