Workshop on Making Elders Tech Smart

Delhi, March 5, 2020: ASM conducted a hands-on workshop on ‘Making Elders Tech Smart’, on 5th March 2020. It was the 4th workshop in the series and was an initiative taken by Mr O.P. Khanduja, Executive Director, Apeejay School of Management, with an intension to make senior population more empowered and to make them continue to lead independent lives. The theme of the workshop was ‘app-based learning’. Senior citizens from New Delhi, Dwarka, between the age of 60 years and 80 years participated in the program. The Workshop started with a welcome address by Mr O.P. Khanduja, followed by the training given by faculty and assisted by the student volunteers of the Institute. The program was highly appreciated by all the participants.

New Delhi, Dec 7, 2019: ASM Dwakra Campus organised Shramdaan in collaboration with Dwarka-based NGO Green Circle. Leading by example, Prof. O.P. Khanduja, Executive Director, and Mr Selvarajan, Founder Secretary, Green Circle, participated in the cleanliness drive along with the students, faculty, staff and the members of Green Circle. The volunteers cleaned the service lane in the institutional area and picked all the plastic waste. The initiative was supported by SDMC. Mr Khanduja encouraged the students to continue doing good to the society by selfless service and positive attitude.

New Delhi, oct 18, 2019: ASM organised a Workshop for ‘Making Elders Tech-Smart’. ASM took this initiative to make elders tech savvy and this was the 4th workshop conducted at ASM. This Workshop brought together around 20 participants, retired from different domains, mostly residing in various parts of Delhi. It served as an interactive platform for learning about the use of technology in Smartphones, WhatsApp and Facebook. The session started with opening remarks by Prof. Sareen, Director, ASM. He welcomed the participants and wished all the participants to have a great learning experience in the Workshop. The technical session was handled by Dr Monika Arora and Dr Preeti Suryawanshi, faculty at ASM.

New Delhi, Oct 4, 2019: ASM Dwarka Campus organised a Blood Donation Camp in collaboration with the Rotary Blood Bank on the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of Dr Stya Paul, Founder Chairman of the Apeejay Education Society. Dr Amit Kumar Singh gave a motivational talk to the students, faculty and staff on the occasion. A brief documentary film on the need to donate blood was also screened. Fifty units of blood were donated by the faculty, staff and students for this noble cause.

New Delhi, August 30, 2019: Apeejay School of Management, Dwarka campus, in collaboration with the Delhi Police organised a seminar on ‘Cyber Security and Self Defense for Women’. Mr O.P. Khanduja, Executive Director of the Apeejay Dwarka campus, welcomed the Chief Guest, Dy. Commissioner of Police, Dwarka District Delhi, Shri Anto Alphonse, IPS, along with the Delhi Police team including ACP, Mr Rajinder Singh, SHO, Mr Ramniwas and SI, Mr Arvind. The seminar was attended by more than 500 students from over 27 colleges of Delhi NCR who had come to participate in the Youth Summit which was also organised at Apeejay Dwarka.

Mr O.P. Khanduja, Executive Director, in his welcome address emphasised that we are living in the digital age of social media and in this era of internet and computers, there exists an aspect of cyber crime whether it is cyber cheating or fraud, women harassment or terror recruitment which needs to be strongly addressed.

Delhi Police personnel created awareness about online threats in the cyber space and informed & educated the students about the various ways in they can safeguard themselves and make cyber security an integral part of their lifestyle. They also demonstrated the use of Himmat Plus App which is an initiative by the Delhi Police to help the citizens in case of emergency and the students installed it in their mobiles. The Delhi Police women officers gave a demo on the self defense training to the female students and taught them defense techniques & steps to use in case of emergency.

The Chief Guest, Mr Anto Alphonse, DCP Dwarka, interacted with the students and shared various initiatives that the Government is taking for the safety & security of the citizens and also offered to conduct free self defense training workshops for the female students. The program concluded with a vote of thanks.