Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 19: Confede-ration of Indian Industry (CII) in collaboration with Central University, Jammu organized a session on ‘Import- Export policies and its Impact on Indian Economy’.
Sujiv Jain, Managing Director, of a local Food Industry was the guest speaker on the occasion.
CII, J&K State Council also organised a session on `Cyber Security: Connect with Care’. Sparsh Sharma, Assistant Professor, DoCSE, BGSBU was the guest speaker for the session.
The session on Import- Export policies was to educate students about the thrust areas of entrepreneurship and allied exporting opportunities ranging from food processing to agriculture so that they can build upon the entrepreneurial competencies that are sector specific.
Speaking on the occasion, Jain, elaborated on the India’s market potential and contemporary exporting destinations that need to be tapped upon taking into consideration the historical exporting trend projections.
In view of the rapid increase in cases of cyber crime in India, the awareness session on cyber security provided a unique platform for the exchange on cyber security knowledge and information, in order to ensure a higher level of cyber security and thus leverage digitally enabled economic growth.
Sparsh Sharma, from BGSBU gave the audience a glimpse of cyber threats. He opined that creating awareness about cyber crimes is the first step in preventing such crimes. He gave the audience ideas as to how vulnerable the common man as well as organizations are to cyber-attacks.
The session was well attended by the industry members and students of Central University, Jammu.
Applauding the efforts of CII J&K State Council, Prof Ashok Aima, Vice – Chancellor Central University of Jammu mentioned that CII has initiated the series of sessions with the educational institutions of the State for establishing industrial-academia interface. “In order to build up a gap between the industries and the academia, CII has always tried to make a connect between the educational institutions and the corporate world through these sessions,” Dr Aima maintained.
Gourav Sehgal, HoD Supply Chain Management commended CII’s efforts for bringing together industry and academics institutions on the same platform.
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