Greetings for Happy Republic Day -26th January 2013

wish you all a very happy Republic Day – 64^th (26^th January 2013)

 

R	Regard
E	Education
P	Pride
U	Unity
B	Brilliant
L	Liberation
I	Intelligence
C	Class
D	Determination
A	Autonomy
Y	Yield

 

26^th January – which is known as Republic Day in India. India got its constitution on 26^th January 1950 so it is also known as red letter day in the Indian history. (26 january) Republic Day is celebrated as a festival in India every year. On 26^th January 1950, India became a Sovereign Democratic Republic. The meaning of Sovereign is a country which is not only internally supreme but is also independent of any outside control and on that day the we became the democratic nation. The meaning of democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. In a Republic, the Head of a State is not hereditary.

Do you know that the constitution of was ready on on 26th November, 1949 but why our leaders choose 26^th January 1950 to be a republic Day ? The reason behind this is on 26^th January 1930, the All-India Congress Committee at its Lahore Session held under the Presidentship of late Pt. Jawahar Lai Nehru pledged that India’s aim was “Purna Swaraj”. This means that they wanted complete freedom. They want the nation where no outsiders can rule.

We got freedom on 15^th August 1947 and it takes around two year in the formation of Indian constitution. Both Independence day (15^th August) and Republic Day (26^th January) reminds us of the great sacrifices made by the Indian people to realise their pledge of complete independence from British rule. Hence this national festival is celebrated throughout the country with great enthusiasm and with great pomp and show. As this is out national festival so all the school, colleges, shops etc are closed on this day because there is a national holiday on this day.

In the capital city of India which is Delhi, this festival is celebrated with a great pomp and show and with great joy. Thousands of people from all across the nation visit the capital city Delhi to watch the Republic Day Parade. Not only people from India but foreigner also reach there to watch the awesome republic day parade.

The preparation of Republic Day starts 1 month before the Republic Day and there is a final full dress rehearsal of the Republic Day Parade on 24^th January every year. Thousands of people gather there to watch this rehearsal of Republic Day. The purpose of this full dress rehearsal of the Republic Day Parade is to identify the loop hole and rectify this for the event of 26^th January.

Every year the Republic Day parade be the center of attraction. In the republic day parade there are various types of guns, tanks, rockets, missiles, bombs etc are shown.

After Republic Day parade there are many cultural activities held by the representatives of different states which are really awesome and mind blowing. Everyone watch all the cultural activity with a keen interest and joy.

At night all the government buildings like Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Central Secretariat, Parliament House, India Gate, etc. were illuminated with colorful lights and all these buildings seems to be a new bride.

 

Frank MARTIN, Australia - delivered Nagamani Dharmapuri endowment lecture on 'Paediatric ophthalmology', Sankara Nethralaya on 24.01.2013

 

 

Frank MARTIN, Australia - delivered Nagamani Dharmapuri endowment lecture on 'Paediatric ophthalmology', Sankara Nethralaya on 24.01.2013

Frank J Martin is President of APAO and APSPOS. He is a Clinical Professor in Ophthalmology and Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney and holds an attachment to Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network and to Sydney Eye Hospital. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Children’s Medical Research Institute and Chairman of the Westmead Hub Council. He is a past President of RANZCO and has been recognised for his contribution to ophthalmology by the award of the College Medal. Frank was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2001. In 2011 Frank was awarded APAO’s highest award for a clinician in the region, the Jose Rizal Medal, and also received a vocational excellence award from Rotary.

Bharat Ratna Smt M.S Subbulakshmi – the Voice of Compassion - Sankara Nethralaya

 

 

Bharat Ratna Smt M.S Subbulakshmi – the Voice of Compassion

 

While there have been voices that have enthralled audience, kept them in spell bound attention or made them break out into a chorus, if there was one voice moved hearts and echoed compassion and love for mankind it was undoubtedly the mellifluous and divine voice of Shrimathi M.S Subbulakshmi, the nightingale of India. Known fondly as MS Amma to millions of her fans and admirers, she mesmerized her audience and transformed them to another world, with her mastery over the ragas and the finer nuances of rendering them.

While she was the unquestioned supremo of classical music who straddled the world of music like a colossus, she was also a simple, down to earth, warm human being with no trace of vanity or pride that such glory brought along with it. MS Amma had a deep empathy for social causes and compassion for alleviating suffering and effectively used the power and reach of her voice to spread awareness on social causes and raise funds to support them and various charitable initiatives. Her jam packed concerts held worldwide helped in raising humanitarian relief for a myriad of causes ranging from rehabilitation of flood/famine victims, support of orphanages/old age shelters to raising funds for the nation’s war effort.

MS Amma and her husband Shri Sadasivam had a special place in their heart for Sankara Nethralaya and its Mission; they shared a warm personal relationship with its Founder Dr SS.Badrinath and Dr Vasanthi Badrinath. The noble couple have graced and blessed many functions and initiatives at Sankara Nethralaya and have performed several concerts in Chennai, Mumbai and the US in aid of Sankara Nethralaya, which have helped in raising a significant volume of funds to support the noble cause of the institution they cherished. They have also bequeathed the royalty accruing from the sale of some of their popular and fast selling records towards the same. Sankara Nethralaya has been receiving a substantial amount from HMV and subsequently Sa Re Ga Ma the companies which own the audio rights of these evergreen classics.

‘Katrin Kural’a musical extravaganza produced as a rich tribute to the legend by Vijay TV came as a good opportunity to Sankara Nethralaya to express its gratitude and fond remembrance of one of its strongest supporters and well wishers , which it did wholeheartedly by sponsoring the same. We take great pleasure in sharing some of most memorable, melodious moments that we cherish, especially with our young readers.

We take this opportunity to share, especially with our young viewers a rare gem from MS Amma’s virtuoso performances, the amazing rendition of the invocation song in 5 languages at the 6th Afro Asian Congress of Ophthalmology held at Madras in 1976, which she did at the request of Dr SS.Badrinath the founder of Sankara Nethralaya

 

Capacity Building

                           Capacity Building

By Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, Ref : www.abdulkalam.com

 

When I visualize the five minds of the future(1. Disciplinary mind, 2. Synthesizing mind, 3. Creative mind, 4. Respectful mind, 5. Ethical mind), I have a message for the all the teachers and students. Nurturing all the five minds is possible, if you build the following five capacities among the youth. What are those five capacities? The five capacities are: research and inquiry, creativity and innovation, use of high technology, entrepreneurial and moral leadership are the five capacities required to be built through the education process.

Research and enquiry: The 21st century is about the management of all the knowledge and information we have generated and the value addition we bring to it. We must give our students the skills with which they find a way through the sea of knowledge that we have created and continue with life long learning. Today, we have the ability, through technology, to really and truly teach ourselves to become the life-long learners. This is required for sustained economic development

Creativity and innovation: The management of knowledge in the 21st century is beyond the capacity of a single individual. The amount of information that we have around is overwhelming. The management of knowledge therefore must move out of the realm of the individual and shift into the realm of the networked groups. The students must learn how to manage knowledge collectively. When the information is networked the power and utility of the information grows as square as stated by Metcalfe's law. Information that is static does not grow. In the new digital economy information that is circulated creates innovation and contributes to national wealth.

Capacity to use high technology: Every student in our colleges should learn to know how to use the latest technologies for aiding their learning process. Colleges should equip themselves with adequate computing equipment, laboratory equipment, and Internet facilities and provide an environment for the students to enhance their learning ability. In the midst of all of the technological innovations and revolutions we cannot think that the role of the teachers will be diminished. In fact the teacher will become even more important and the whole world of education will become teacher assisted and would help in "tele-porting" the best teacher to every nook and corner of the country and propagate the knowledge. There is a great opportunity and need for content generation in many fields of education which can be used all over the country.

Entrepreneurship: The aptitude for entrepreneurship should be cultivated right from the beginning and in the University environment. We must teach our students to take calculated risks for the sake of larger gain, but within the ethos of good business. They should also cultivate a disposition to do things right. This capacity will enable them to take up challenging tasks later.

Moral leadership: Moral leadership involves two aspects. First it requires the ability to have compelling and powerful dreams or visions of human betterment. Moral leadership requires a disposition to do the right thing and influence others also to do right things. In sum, inquiry, creativity, technology, entrepreneurial and moral leadership are the five capacities required to be built through the education process. I would suggest, all the educational institutions to consider carving out a six months programme from the overall time available for the graduate and post-graduate programme. In this period the students should be equipped with knowledge on subjects like leadership, finance, marketing, inter-personal relationship, negotiation, entrepreneurship and ethical values. The students should be provided a certificate or a diploma along with the professional degree. This type of education will equip the youth with employable skills needed by the industry and also give the confidence to the youth to take up entrepreneurship as an independent venture.

If we develop in all our students these five capacities, we will produce "Autonomous Learner" a self-directed, self controlled, lifelong learner who will have the capacity to both, respect authority and at the same time is capable of questioning authority, in an appropriate manner. These are the leaders who would work together as a "Self-organizing Network" and transform any nation into a prosperous nation. The most important part of the education is to imbibe the confidence among the student is the spirit of "we can do it".

By, Dr. APJ Abdulkalam

www.abdulkalam.com

Testimonials for our Sankara Nethralaya Academy`s One Day Seminar on Hospital Management conducted on 05.01.2013

 

Dear Mr Mahalingam

Thank you for your lovely mail. I am glad that the participants enjoyed the session and found it useful. Thank you once again for having invited me over to handle a session.

You are doing a really great job organising and coordinating such sessions.

 

Dr Clive Fernandes, Apollo Group of Hospitals, Chennai

Dear Mahalingam sir, thank you so much for accommodating us last minute. The seminar was wonderfully organized and not only informative but also entertaining. Each and every topic was very well selected and the speakers, the question and answer sessions everything was just great. Thank you for organizing such an amazing seminar-

Dr Mithila Balakrishnan,

 

Good afternoon sir,The seminar was helpful.many valuable insights was shared.looking forward for more conferences in future.

with regards,

Dr.Anushree gururaj

CMC,Vellore

 

Really Seminar was very helpful to increase my knowledge. Thank you so much sir -Theagarajan , Madras Medical Mission , Management Program Students

 

Three great things that i experienced from this seminar.

 

1.Roles and responsibility of the health care professional in Patient safety.Effective methods to be followed to prevent the same

2. Basic steps to be followed in getting the accredition for the hospitals and competing the indian hospitals towards the global standard.

3.Essential and current need of information technology in the hands on development of the health care system hats off to Mr.Sumanth C Raman , TCS who took the seminar to the next level through his wonder full presentation.

Thanks to sankara nethralaya educational wing for conducting such seminars to the heath care professional and proud to be part of it.

Regards,

Sivaraman.Dhanasekaran, M.Pharm., M.B.A. (P.hD).

Asst.Professor/Research Consultant

C.L.Baid Metha college of Pharmacy,Jyothi nagar,Thoraipakkam, Chennai

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Dr Abhishek R Kothari (ARK),Santokba Durlabhji Hospital,
Jaipur:

Dear Mahali: Congratulations on the wonderful management program you had on Sunday. I had recommended to our hospital administrator to attend, which he did. On his return, he gave a great feedback. Please pass my congrats to the entire organising team.

Now, I already have a request from our Secretary for the next program's date as he is keen to attend. He is eager to visit SN, too.

Please let me know this year's event calendar for management courses so we can plan in advance.

 

Prof L. S. Ganesh. Dean of Students, and Professor, Department of Management Studies (DoMS),

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS,
CHENNAI 600036. I N D I A.

 

Dear Mr . Mahalingam. I benefitted significantly from the Workshop and am planning to invite a couple of the Resource Persons to talk to my students.

Please get in touch with Professor G. Srinivasan (+91 94440 08458) the Head, Department of Management Studies (DoMS), IIT Madras, to discuss about possibilities of some collaborative research (both, field and conceptual) programmes and even short-term programmes/courses. In regards research in the broad area of Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, DoMS has figured in the top-20 in the world in peer ratings published in the International Journal of Production Economics over the last couple of years. The Department hosts one of the largest research groups in the world in Management.

I believe, Healthcare or Wellness Management is a fertile academic field in which SNA and DoMS can demonstrate considerable synergy.

 

 

Dear Mr.Mahalingam,

My heartfelt appreciation of your selfless effort and hard work put for upbringing TSNA to render fruitful service to the humanity.

Thanks for your PONGAL WISHES and I too wish you and TSNA team the same.

Kind regards,

T.A.

 

Prof Shekhar, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

Dear Mr. Mahalingam, Kindly accept my sincere appreciation for a very well organized seminar. Salut!!

I was going through the brochure that you had offered along with the kit. I offer the module on Learning & Development as a Junior Faculty at the Great Lakes Institute of Management for the flagship program. I am interested to offer my services as a visiting Faculty to teach the module on Training & Development that is listed in the Certificate course in Hospital Management (weekend pattern). If you are in the process of identifying faculty – do let me know how to take this forward.

 

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy conducts a niche, high power seminar on Hospital management on 05.01.2013

The most eagerly awaited seminar on Hospital Management organized by the Sankara Nethralaya Academy was held on the 5th of January 2013 at the Sri VD.Swami Auditorium. The attendance both in terms of numbers and profile was a clear indication that the Sankara Nethralaya academy had cut a niche as a highly rated knowledge dissemination centre. Shrimathi Akila Ganesan, Senior General manger, Sankara Nethralaya and Registrar of the Sankara Nethralaya Academy flagged off the day’s deliberation with a warm welcome address, an interesting note on the need for teaching and training initiatives in an organization and a quick and lively intro of the day’s speakers. This was followed by an introduction of Professor Bala Balachandran who was delivering the Key note address by Dr KS.Vasan, Managing Director, Sankara Nethralaya.

The daylong seminar witnessed some highly engaging and in-depth talks on a wide spectrum of topics related to better Hospital Management and health care delivery including best practices, better patient experience and promotion of a health care center by experts in the respective fields as follows

Best Practices, Next Practices and Excellence for Ever in Health Care by Prof. Bala Balachandran, Founder & Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India. J.L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Information Management Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA.

Putting the patient first: Patient safety and customer – focused services by Dr.Clive Fernandez, GM Quality & Special Projects – Apollo Group Hospitals, India, Consultant – JCI & NABH Assessor.

Balanced Scorecard – Powerful Organizational Tool for Strategic Planning and Driving Performance in Healthcare by Dr TV Subramaniam (Dr TVS) – Chairman Board of Studies at Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy, Visiting Faculty – IIFMR, Chennai & IIM – Ahmadabad

Information and communication technology (ICT) in Health care by Dr.Sumanth C Raman, Head – Healthcare Innovations, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai

Hospital Accreditation / International benchmarking by Dr Shashank Devapur – Technical Manager, 3M India Ltd, India

Retaining the best through employee engagement in Health care Organization by Dr.R.Karthikeyan, Director, Gemba Management Consulting Pvt Ltd & Vice-Chairman ISTD, Chennai chapter.

Marketing/ promoting the Hospitals by Prof Sankaran P.Raghunathan, Dean – The National Management School, Chennai.

The sessions were of a highly interactive nature with participant even finding solutions to specific issues they were currently facing through direct engagement with the eminent speakers and enriching their skills and knowledge from the well – researched presentations touching on various facets of Hospital Management and Health care delivery.

 

“Hospital Management” on 05.01.2013(Saturday)

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy

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Agenda for the seminar

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“Hospital Management” on 05.01.2013(Saturday)

Venue :  Sri V.D Swami’s Auditorium, 7^th Floor, KNBIRVO Block,

Sankara Nethralaya, 18 College Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai – 600006.

 

08.30am To 8.45 am	Registration
8.45 am To 9.00 am	Welcome address and Speak about Empowering the internal customers through continuing teaching training and development in organizations. By Mrs Akila Ganesan – Senior General Manager, Sankara Nethralaya &                                        Registrar – The SN Academy
9.00 am To 10.00 am	Key Note Address on Best Practices, Next Practices and Excellence for Ever In Health Care By Prof  Bala Balachandran Founder & Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, India.             J.L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Information             Management Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.  USA.
10.00 am To 11.00 am	Putting the patient first: Patient safety and customer-focused services by Dr Clive Fernandes          GM Quality & Special Projects - Apollo Group Hospitals, India          Consultant-JCI & NABH Assessor.
11.00 am To 11.15am	Coffee Break
11.15am To 12.45 pm	Balanced Scorecard – Powerful Organizational Tool for Strategic Planning and Driving Performance in Healthcare. by Dr TV Subramaniam (Dr TVS) - Chairman Board of Studies at Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy. Visiting Faculty - IIFMR,Chennai & IIM – A.bad.
12.45 pm To 1.15 pm	Lunch Break
1.15pm To 2.15pm	Information and communication technology (ICT) in Health care by Dr.Sumanth C Raman  Head-Healthcare Innovations, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai
2.15pm To 3.15pm	Hospital Accreditation / International benchmarking by Dr Shashank Devapur – Technical Manager , 3 M India Ltd, India
3.15pm To 4.15 pm	Retaining the best through employee engagement in Health care Organization​ by Dr. R. Karthikeyan, Director, Gemba Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd & Vice-Chairman ISTD, Chennai chapter.
4.15 pm To 4.30 pm	Coffee Break
4.30 pm To 5.00 pm	Marketing / Promoting the Hospitals By Prof Sankaran P. Raghunathan,Dean - The National Management School, Chennai
5.00 pm To 5.15 pm	Feedback / Group Photo / Certificate Distribution