International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

The United Nations’ (UN) International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking falls on 26th of June every year to raise awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs represents to society.

The theme for 2018 is: "Listen First - Listening to children and youth is the first step to help them grow healthy and safe." It is an initiative to increase support for prevention of drug use that is based on science. It is thus an effective investment for the well-being of children and youth, their families and their communities.

The executives visited the start-up companies functioning in the campus.They appreciated the various innovative programs implemented by our college and the support it gives for the development and transformation of innovative ideas into actual projects. They were truly impressed by the State-of-the-art technology and infrastructure that is used at Sahyadri campus.They said that the initiatives at Sahyadri are unique and will help students to be industry-ready once they come out of the portals of Sahyadri.

India too is caught in this vicious circle of drug abuse, and the numbers of drug addicts are increasing day by day. According to a UN report, one million heroin addicts are registered in India, and unofficially there are as many as five million. What started off as casual use among a minuscule population of high-income group youth in the metro has permeated to all sections of society!

Inhalation of heroin alone has given way to intravenous drug use, that too in combination with other sedatives and painkillers. This has increased the intensity of the effect, hastened the process of addiction and complicated the process of recovery. Cannabis, Heroin, and Indian-produced pharmaceutical drugs are the most frequently abused drugs in India.

“Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Good health” ... because drugs cost more than just your money ... it costs your life.”
Published in the interest of the public health by Sahyadri Health and Counselling Centre

Prof Shivaprakash, Founder Director, Knowledge Varsity addresses the students of 2nd year MBA – Finance

Prof Shivaprakash spoke on the topic“Technology money transfer- Open and distributed ledger Technology”. The session started off with explanation about the basic concepts of ledger and Journal which made the students understand the further concepts easily. He covered various aspects of emerging areas for research such as Bit Coins, Crypto Currencies, Peer to Peer technology and also the challenges involved with these systems. He also touched up on Hashing Software, Block Chain Technology and suggested that the students undergo a research on comparison between bit coins and the other crypto currencies like Litecoin, ZCash, Dash, Ripple.

Prof Shivaprakash started his career as Assistant Professor at the TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal and subsequently assumed various positions in academics such as Associate Director, OHIO Manipal School of Business, Director – Administration at the OHIO Christ Academy for Management Education. Currently, he is the India Coordinator for the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA and also the Founder Director of the Knowledge Varsity which is his brain child.

Prof Shivaprakash is a passionate teacher and an able academic administrator. He is specialized in Managerial Finance and has taught in India, France and USA. Besides Finance, he is a keen student of Economics, Politics, Culture, Philosophy and Technology.

Campus Recruitment Drive- ManipalProLearn

ManipalProLearn conducted a Pool Campus Recruitment Drive for the Mechanical Engineering students of the 2018 Batch. MrAshwinBhat – Senior Manager, from the recruitment team accompanied by MrRudresh N. Sandur, Centre Director, were at the campus to facilitate the process. Two students were shortlisted.

Quote for the day

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
- - Edmund Burke