Now, two union ministers skip PAN-IIM World Mgmt Conference
LUCKNOW: Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar and petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday gave the PAN-IIM World Management Conference at IIM-Lucknow a miss. The two ministers were to address the gathering on the third and final day here.
On Thursday, chief minister Yogi Adityanath and union minister of state Manoj Sinha had skipped the inaugural session of the meet.
The PAN-IIM conference was an annual event initiated by the Indian institutes of management and supported by the ministry of human resource development.
The message of Suresh Prabhu, minister of commerce and industry, was shared with the participants on Saturday wherein he cited some examples of how digitisation reduced graft in the railways and brought government services to every Indian’s palmtops.
Dinesh Sharma, deputy chief minister and KK Sharma, secretary, MHRD and Justice Rajesh Tandon, former chairperson, Cyber Appellate Tribunal, addressed the valedictory session. Sharma compared the education system of ancient India, compared scholars like Aryabhatta and Panini with the modern teaching styles in the digital India age, and shared his own experiences with the evolution of technology.
This was followed by the award ceremony for 24 awards in Excellence in Digital Entrepreneurship, Start-ups and Best Paper Awards for research presented during the conference.
The guests released the conference compendium and the start-up India handbook that included all the start-ups that were awarded at the ceremony.