Jayant Sinha shares success mantra at MDI's convocation

MDI Gurgaon, one of the top B Schools of the country, bid farewell to yet another illustrious batch of students in its annual convocation ceremony for 2016 held on campus. Recognizing the day as a major milestone in their educational journey, the ceremony saw reaching of the students to greater heights.

A total of 530 students including 11 fellow scholars were awarded diplomas and medals in recognition of their efforts through the tenure of the courses.

Prof. C. P. Shrimali, Acting Director, MDI took the assembled audience through the achievements of MDI this year while expressing pride in upholding the institute's vision of being a Global Business School of Thought Leaders and Change Masters for Academic Excellence and Continuous Innovation. MDI has a long tradition of producing entrepreneurs and job creators.

A total of 333 students participated in the placement process, with 237 students from the flagship PGPM course, 61 students from the PGP-HRM course, and 35 from the PGP-IM course. 106 students received Pre-Placement Offers either from their summer internship organizations or through various B-school competitions.

Through a deeply engaging convocation address, Minister of State for Finance, Jayant Sinha said, "I feel honored to be a part of MDI's Convocation. It is a time when we have decisive and primary excellent youth for leadership. India's growth in coming years is going to be more qualitative in manufacturing and technology sector. My dear students this is the next world and you can be the leaders of this next world, so go forth and transform India as well as the world."

The guest of honour, Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Director General and CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs while addressing the students said "As you move out and begin to roll the dice in the corporate world, you are going to implement lessons learned during your course in MDI.