Greater Noida: To meet the challenges arising out of present Covid19 and to enhance the skill sets of faculty members in Amity University, a series of the webinar are being organized during the period of lockdown. The motive is to provide the students and professors of Amity Universities across the globe updated skills and knowledge through webinars. The webinar is being conducted with renowned industry leaders and in this series, today’s topic was “What lies in store for academia and industry”.

Prof. (Dr.) Gurinder Singh,  Group Vice Chancellor Amity Universities initiated the webinar by introducing Mr. Sugato Bose who then spoke about how COVID-19 is depicting a manner of nature claiming itself and how this pandemic is affecting the economy of countries and financial condition of various conglomerates. He emphasized on the point that leaders and people involved in numerous business must rethink their strategy to do business and reinvent the key aspects. While talking about the scene of political leadership, capitalism and the state of environment of the society, he laid focus on the importance of the emergence of welfare states and spoke about how the lack of social security system might be the biggest challenge for India.

He laid emphasis on the fact that due to the pandemic, there will be unemployment and major cutbacks in salary of those who still have jobs, this will lead people in crisis to spend less on luxury items and thereby affecting numerous businesses.

He then added students will have to rethink their options as because there will be a scarcity of jobs. He drew attention to the point that e-commerce might be on the rise during times like these and start-ups with innovative ideas solving after-effects of pandemic may be the only hail Mary to grow for students.

Dr. Renu Rajani who said at the time of this doom, this pandemic, businesses have been able to test their resilience and that the education sector is the one which is least impacted. She discussed about the data provided by Mckinsey and how the growth of GDP has been less in 2019 as compared to 2018. She advised the students to be flexible, determined and always be ready to acquire new skills as if you can do that then there is no need to worry because freshers with relevant new skills are always in demand in the industry. She said it is important to have good personal traits more than the skills in the long run.

At the end of Dr. Renu Rajani session, Prof. (Dr.) Gurinder Singh asked Sugato Bose to conclude the session and he did it by saying business will have to take new measures to come back to their normal pace.

The webinar concluded with an interactive session where all the queries were addressed in multiple dimensions. The Webinar was attended by hundreds of vice presidents, Dean, faculties, and students of Amity University who have shown their total commitment to come forward and work with government agencies, international organizations to meet the challenges COVID 19.