Election Results - Maharashtra Mantralaya and Allied Offices Co-operative Bank Limited

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Friday, February 08, 2008 - The Maharashtra Mantralaya and Allied Offices Co-operative Bank Limited completed 78 years this year. Election to elect members under the Chief Secretary Smt. Chitkala Zutshi were held in the last week of the year 2007.

The results were declared in the first week of January in a meeting held at the office of the bank under observation of J. D. Patil, Sub-Registrar of Co-operative Organizations (Mumbai City).

Tushar Purshottam Hirlekar, Vasudev Thimnappa Devadiga, Gajanan Shankar Sawant, Dattaram Laxman Kumbhar, Pradeep Namdev Shirdhankar, Sudesh Rangnath Rozekar, Sunil Bapurao Ravade, Subhash Narayan Gangurde, Shivaji Fakkadrao Landge, Sanjay Yadav Gaikwad, Bharat Wamanrao Wankhede, Pushottam Shankar Pawaskar, Vijay Ramchandra Khedekar, Smt. Swati Suresh Rane, and Smt. Chhaya Sunil Agnihotri are the names of those elected.

Out of these elected members Tushar Purshottam Hirlekar was elected unopposed as the President, and Sanjay Yadav Gaikwad was elected unopposed as the Vice President of the Bank. ###

For more information contact Chief Officer A. V. Jadhav on telephone numbers 22812046, 22793758, and 22835153 or telefax numbers 22025452, branch office numbers 22856940, 22835143, 22835146, 22793367 and 22793986.

Smart and Intelligent Approach Towards Fashion Education – A New Horizon of Fashion Careers Offered by SNDT Women’s University Mumbai

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, February 6, 2008 - SNDT Women's University is committed to the cause of women's empowerment through education, particularly higher education. Thus, it offers relevant courses in formal and non-formal streams. Previously the Indian government emphasized on the crème sectors such as Engineering, Medicine, and IT, but in the past few years, it has been realized that the credits of economic growth also go to the fashion including apparel, jewelry, and also its allied branches such as fashion retail, and apparel manufacturing and merchandising.

This sector is growing rapidly in its various sub-streams. However, against the employment opportunities available in this sector, there is a dearth of adequate and efficient manpower, which might hamper the growth of the fashion industry, and thus the economy as a whole.

Thus, in order to provide the industry with skilled and efficient human resource, and in turn provide the youth with various job opportunities in this sector, SNDT has taken a right step at the right time by introducing new courses for fashion and apparel related fields, as well as the jewelry sector. These courses are U. G. Degree in Fashion Design, U. G. Degree in Fashion Communication, U. G. Degree in Jewelry Design, U. G. Diploma in Computer Assisted Fashion Design, P. G. Diploma in Fashion Design and Logistics, P. G. Diploma in Apparel Manufacturing and Merchandising, and P. G. Diploma in Fashion Retailing. The durations of the degree programs are 3 years, and that of the P. G. diplomas are 2 years. To serve this cause, SNDT has given its affiliation to only those institutions, which already have a strong background in terms of infrastructure and professionally trained human resources.

The fashion industry is fast growing and has equally challenging opportunities as in various other sectors such as IT and Engineering, thus even in this field, competitive and diligent manpower is required. Therefore, in order to serve the industry with industrious human resources, the SNDT University has acquired a system wherein the students will be selected based on an entrance exam so that the most deserving candidates are selected and groomed to be focused fashion professionals of tomorrow. This entrance examination will be conducted on May 11, 2008 on a National level where SNDT has identified 12 examination centers all over the country to benefit all those students who aspire for fashion education.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Chandra Krishnamurthy and her team have done extensive and intensive research on this blooming fashion sector to identify requirements of industry in terms of fashion education, and based on the job prospects available in this field of fashion, the courses have been structured.

SNDT has got immense industry support through the advisory boards of colleges conducted and affiliated to it. To name a few personalities, Mr. Rahul Mehta, President of the Clothing Manufactures Association of India has generously accepted the invitation of being Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the School of Fashion Technology Pune, Shri A. S. Awasthi Retd. I. A S. Former Director Of Higher Education Government Of NCT Delhi, Shri Pradeep V. Mehta - Principal Mehta Consulting LLC USA, Shri A. K. Dadoo - Vice President Reliance Industries Ltd. Panipat, and Members of the Advisory Board of the Satyam Fashion Institute Noida.

Mr. Gautam Banerjee – Renowned Jewellery Designer, Dr. Usha Balakrishnan – Art Historian, Mr. Pushpak Desai – Director, Sundaram Jewels Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Colin Shah – Director, Kama Jewellery, have also contributed to the jewelry design degree programme at SNDT Juhu, Mumbai.

The Honorable V. Chancellor would like to announce this new venture of opportunities for the upcoming women talent of India in Fashion Education that supports the clothing and textile sector of India through affiliated colleges in Mumbai, Pune, Noida, and in Indore.###