SMVDU Katra 29 Jan.: “Choices made whether good or bad follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another,” is the aim of one-week training program on “Effective Decision Making” for Indian Forests Services (IFS) officers at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, inaugurated on 29 Jan. The programme is being organized by School of Business, Faculty of Management, with the financial support from Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India. Describing the resources and scenic beauty of University, Prof. D. Mukhopadhyay, Dean, Faculty of Management, welcomed the participants and mentioned the relevance of theme of training program.

Program Coordinator Dr. Jyoti Sharma extended warm welcome to the participating IFS officers nominated by MoEF for the program. She appraised the participants about the event. While introducing with the aim of the program, she underlined that the program will provide a helping hand to the participants to get an understanding about the different aspects of problems, generation of creative solutions, and deciding of which solution most closely matched their needs. Vice Chancellor Prof. Sanjeev Jain also conveyed his best wishes for the program. Registrar Prof. V.K. Bhat congratulated the organizing team for regular conduction of such kind of programs at SMVDU. The training programme will comprise of various interactive sessions which will be conducted by eminent resource persons to highlight a variety of creative problem-solving and decision-making tools and techniques and to develop successful and effective solutions. One day field visit will also be the part of the program. The IFS officers participating in this program belong to 19 different States of India including Gujrat, Karnataka, Madhya Pardesh, Assam, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra and J&K etc.