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In This Issue

Savitribai Phule Birth Anniversary Celebration ..............................

Advance Excel Workshop ...................................................................

RYIY-2019-20 Stage 5 & 6 ..................................................................

Road Safety Awareness Drive .............................................................

Ashoka Start-Up Utsav ........................................................................

Faculty Article .......................................................................................

Faculty Achievements ...........................................................................

Student Achievements ...........................................................................

College News Published ........................................................................

AshokaBusinessSchool Premier B-School in North Maharashtra January-2020

ISO 9001:2015 Certified, Minority Institute

(Recognized by AICTE New Delhi, DTE Mumbai,

Government of Maharashtra &

Affiliated to SavitribaiPhule Pune University)

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Hon’ble Mr. Ashok Katariya Chairman,

Ashoka Education Foundation, Nashik

To be a leader, it is necessary that the person is not only equipped with knowledge, but one

should be empowered with a strong character, motivation to face the odds and above all the

ability to find and pursue a vision for one's life. Ashoka aims to create an environment where

the students will develop themselves as an aware citizen but into a leader of Global status.

Ashoka is an initiative to revolutionize the educational environment by equipping the students

with information, mental and spiritual strength together with contemporary skills. It also

empowers their Personality with a vision.

A vision to be a contributor in making India a superpower by the year 2020.

Dr. D. M. Gujarathi

Director (Higher Education)

Ashoka Education Foundation

Dr. Wasudeo N. Bhende

Administrator

Ashoka Education Foundation

In-Charge Director

Dr. Vikas Gaundare

Ashoka Business School, Nashik


Date: 3rd

January, 2020

Event Coordinator: Mr. Ashwin Amrutkar

Participants:Management, Faculties& Staff members

Venue: ABS, Library

Savitribai Phule Birth Anniversary was celebrated in Ashoka Business School by remembering her

and her work in the field of education. Dr. Vikas Gaundare, Director Incharge of Ashoka Business

School spoke on Savitribai Phule, the first female teacher of India, who was also an Indian social

reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra. He also highlighted on how Savitribai played

an important role in improving women's rights in India during British rule. He informed that Phule

along with her husband founded the first girl's school in Pune, which was run by Indians.She

worked to abolish the discrimination and unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender.

Dr. D.M. Gujarathi spoke about how Savitribai Phule was regarded as an important figure of the

social reforms movement in Maharashtra.

Savitribai Phule Birth Anniversary Celebration


Date of Event: From 4-5th

Jan 2020to 28-29th Feb 2020

Name of Course: Certificate Course Advanced Excel

Participants: Total Students: 97, Totalstaff: 20

Course Duration: 4 Weeks (Saturday and Sunday)

Program Coordinator: Dr. Mrs.Sarita Dhawale & Mrs. Pooja Gholap

In Association with: Metamorphosis Training Consultant

Program and Overview:

Modern Businesses are imperative of technology.

Modern Business Managers are supposed to be acquainted with Spread Sheet and its use in data

collation.

Advanced Excel Module covers extensively all the aspects of Data Collation, which further help to

understand Analytics.

This Course will help participants in fairly understanding tables, properties, macros, pivot

tables and many more features.

Expected Outcome of Program:

Application of Basic & Advanced Excel at business Level and making business analysis through

advanced excel functions which is need of an hour.Advanced Excel is one such skill which will

help students to evaluate data and draw inferences as necessary. We have designed a certificate

course to equip students for recent practices in business.

Advance Excel Workshop


Date of the Event: - 4th

Jan 2020

Event Coordinators: -

Stage 5- Dr. Vikas Gaundare,

Stage 6- Mr. Yogesh Joshi,Mr. Lokesh Surana, Ms. Pratima Bhalekar

RYIY Stages 5 & 6 were conducted in the campus of ABS. For Stage 5, twenty students from

senior section and 20 students from Junior section were contesting to go to the 6th& Final stage of

the RYIY 2019. Contestants had to deliver a presentation in the sector selected by them for the

Stage 5. Out of 40, top 5 from each section were selected for the final stage which was Personal

Interview. The two separate panels of eminent experts of Nashik were identified for each section.

The interviews were conducted by the panels and results were announced on the day of Prize

Distribution. Contestants were happy about the conduction of competition and panel members were

satisfied about the idea and purpose behind the competition.

RYIY-2019-20 Stage 5 & 6


Date of Event: 14th

Jan 2020

Participant: MBA Students & ABS faculties.

Resource Person: Mr. Anil Shilpi, ABL, Mr Sameer Morade, ACL &

Miss Shweta Wagh ACL, Alumni ABS

Venue: ABS Seminar Hall

Event Coordinator:Mrs. Pooja Gholap

ASHOKA BUILDCON LIMITED & ASHOKA CONSSESIONS LIMITED conducted a “ROAD

SAFETY AWARENESS” drive at Ashoka Business School. Mr. Shimpi and Mr. Sameer guided

students with their experience of being in the toll projects and witnessing the major road accidents

that took place due to carelessness that we show towards traffic rules.

They highlighted the need of following the safety rules by showing various breath taking videos

and also explained the condition of the dependents in the family as well as the relatives. They also

motivated students to participate in “INDIA SPEAKS FOR ROAD SAFETY” contest where a

valuable suggestion could save million lives.

Road Safety Awareness Drive


Date of Event: 22nd

January, 2020

Event Coordinator: Mr. Harshal Dayma & Mrs. Pooja Kushare

Ashoka Innovation and Start up cell of Ashoka Business School had organized a, Startup Utsav on

the 22nd

Jan 2020. The idea behind the event was to encourage the “Entrepreneurial Aspirations” of

young entrepreneurs and make Nashik the Startup capital of Maharashtra. It proved to be a

resounding success.

Promising startups had opportunity to present their projects to representatives of venture capital

funds such as 100X VC, BOM,VentureWolf etc. There was also a guidance session arranged for all

those who were interested in entrepreneurship but did not know how to go about it. The Inaugural

function started with discussions with the most successful entrepreneurs from various business

fields. Mr. Pushkar Kale of Trixware technologies and Mr. Parimal Modi of the Founder Lab, were

the event partners and made presentations about their companies and how they are always

motivated to help other startups. Mr. Shridhar of Bank of Maharashtra spoke about the Bank’s

eagerness to help by granting loans to those interested. Mr. Adil Merchant 100X VC, spoke about

funding and evaluation criteria for the same. Mr. Devang Raja,Venture Wolf who was an

investment banker spoke about the early stage investor and assured mentoring to promising

startups.

The Keynote speaker, Ms. Kalyani Shinde described her startup journey and how she received

fundings from Tata Group and Sahyadri farms. She appealed to all the students to believe in

themselves, take risks and generate ideas with no hesitations.

Mr. Ashok Katariya, Chairman ,Ashoka Buildcon said all the ideas should be nourished and such

StartUpUtsavs are the only way of giving wings to the ideas. He assured full support to real good

startups.Mr. B.B. Chandak of the Lokmat group assured full support to such events.

12 selected Startup presentations were made by the participants in front of 100 X VC and Venture

Wolf and 10 startups pitched their startups to BOM.

There were 3 sessions of Manthan to guide the aspiring youth. Mr. Heramb

Shashastrabuddhe,Founder of Talent concepts spoke about disruption,Innovations and importance

of Startups. Mr. Omprakash Kulkarni, Senior scientist and a mentor for startups urged all the

students to follow the legal formalities and be ethical in their conduct while doing business.

Mr. Abhijit Bhand gave information about the role of patents, for startups and stressed upon the

various aspects of Intellectual property. Dr. Bhende, Administrator, AEF laid emphasis on the

importance of youngsters taking positive steps towards entrepreneurship.

Ashoka Start-Up Utsav


Glimpse of Start-Up event


Mr. Harshal Dayma

Assistant Professor

Ashoka Business School, Nashik

Now is the right time…

Co- founder and chairman Emeritus of Infosys once told about India’s environment in the early

1980s as "extremely business-unfriendly". Slow bureaucracy and long-winded procedures meant

just getting the basic technology required to run a company was a battle. He recalls waiting a year

to get a telephone connection and three years for a licence to import a computer. Still he dared to

start his company along with his six friends by taking a loan of Rs 10000/- from his wife.

Now come to year 2019, Kalyani Shinde, an engineering graduate, registered her company Godaam

Innovations using Udyog Aadhaar and within the span of six months she was able to get investment

of Rs 1.5 cr. from different Impact Investors. This indicates India’s “extremely business-friendly”

environment.

Yes, business environment of India has changed a lot; there are many government schemes and

agencies to support entrepreneurship. E- Cell is now present in almost every university, engineering

college and management institute, many incubation centres, like Digital Impact Square, are started

by big corporate houses to promote entrepreneurship.

The kind of support for entrepreneurship and necessary ecosystem which is present today was never

seen in the history of India.

Financial crunch was a very big problem for the budding entrepreneurs two decades ago. Now if

you have a great idea and a dedicated team along with you, there are many options for you. Angel

investors, venture capitalist, schemes like MUDRA are there to support you. Start-up Festival is a

common picture now days where Investors and promoters of start-up meet each other. And due to

competition, nationalise banks are becoming little bit liberal while granting loan to the

entrepreneurs.

Registration, clearance from various government departments compliances related to Income Tax

were frantic activities for new business ventures. Now you can register through the Start-up India

Faculty Article


portal easily and avail many benefits like self-compliance under 3 environmental and 6 labour laws,

Income tax exemption for 3 consecutive years etc.

For sustainable growth any business idea must be scalable. With the help of IoT, AI and other

technological advancements now it is possible to scale up almost every business idea. How the

technology helps to grow the business? Here is the answer- T.I.M.E is India's leading test-prep

institute with a pan-India presence started in 1992 has a turnover of Rs 313 Cr. in FY 2018-19. On

the other hand, 1430 Cr. is earned in FY 2018-19 by BYJU'S – the Learning App, developed by

Think and Learn Pvt Ltd, established by Byju Raveendran in 2011.

There is a change in the mind-set of students. Kaushalendra Kumar, a gold medallist of 2007 batch

of IIM-A, rejected very attractive packages and started Kaushalya Foundation to make his home

state, Bihar, a vegetable hub. Instead of getting placed, starting own business is a new trend now

amongst students of IIM.

Same trend can be seen in the tier II cities like Nasik. Many students meet me and express their

desire of becoming an entrepreneur, but when I ask them a question “When are you going to start

your own venture?” I get typical answers like after working for next 3-4 years will be starting, but

after 3-4 years it doesn’t start. And most astonishing fact is that after working for so many years the

desire to become an entrepreneur also vanishes.

Therefore if someone wants to start own business, the idea should be implemented immediately.

According to me dignity and security means independence, and now is the right time to become

independent…


Dr. Vaibhav Bhalerao successfully presented and defended his

Ph.D. thesis from SPPU and was awarded with a Doctoral degree.

Sr.

No.

Name of the Faculty Achievement Details

1

Dr. Mrs. Sarita Dhawale

Associate Professor, ABS

1. Research Paper Presentation at

International Conference on "Future

of work, workforce & workplace"

Titled" Impact of Digital Business

Services on Senior Citizens-Nashik

City"Organised by S.P. Mandali's

Prin. L.N.Welingker Institute of

Management Development &

Research, Mumbai in collaboration

with AIMS & AICTE “on 13-14th Jan

2020.

2. Research Paper Presentation at

International Conference on "Future

of work, workforce & workplace"

Titled"A study of Digital business in

India & its impact on growth in Indian

Economy"Organisedby S.P. Mandali's


Management Development &

Research, Mumbai in collaboration

with AIMS & AICTE “on 13-14th Jan

2020.

Faculty Achievements


Sr.

No.

Name of the Student Achievement Details

1

Ms. Tanvi Tiwari

MBA I- A division student

Research Paper Presentation at

International Conference on "Future of

work, workforce & workplace"

Titled" Impact of Digital Business

Services on Senior Citizens-Nashik City"

organised by S.P. Mandali's Prin.

L.N.Welingker Institute of Management

Development &Research, Mumbai in

collaboration with AIMS & AICTE " on

13-14th Jan 2020.

2

Mr. Zeeshan Quazi

MBA I-B division student

Research Paper Presentation at

International Conference on "Future of

work, workforce & workplace" Titled “A study of Digital business in

India & its impact on growth in Indian

Economy" organised by S.P. Mandali's


Management Development &Research,

Mumbai in collaboration with AIMS &

AICTE” on 13-14th Jan 2020.

Student Achievements


Student Poem



28th

Jan, 2020

College News Published in Newspaper


Editorial Committee Members

Dr. Vikas Gaundare

Prof. Manisha Bhamre

Prof. Vaibhav Bhalerao

Mr. Ashwin S. Amrutkar

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