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PUMBA EVENTS
 

“It is characteristic of very great persons to move forward to highest accomplishment out of an inner drive”
- Ludwig von Mises

PUMBA has always endeavored to ignite this drive in students and give it direction through various extra-curricular activities and cultural events. These events, not only give the students a platform to exhibit their talents but also an opportunity to comprehend what drives success stories.

EVENTS

NOSTALGIA

NOSTALGIA
Nostalgia is an annual campus reunion held at PUMBA. It gives an opportunity to the PUMBA alumni to meet their peers and relive the moments spent at their institute. The event facilitates student-alumni interaction, thereby enlightening the students with the varied experiences and knowledge of the alumni.
 

 CHAPTER MEETS

The Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA), University of Pune is a premier management institute which pioneered management education in Pune. It is committed towards providing quality management education. The Department organizes National level seminars and workshops every year.

 Reminiscence

• DHRUV PUMBA
  organizes an inter-collegiate event “DHRUV”, which offers a host of management and extra-curricular events for the participants from B-schools all over India. It comprises of more than 25 different management games, cultural and sports activities. Management games include business plans, events testing decision-making skills, games theory, business awareness, negotiation skills etc. Cultural events include group and solo dances, choreography, singing, dumb charades, debates, treasure hunts etc. Sports include basketball, football, cricket, badminton, tug-of-war, carom and chess. DHRUV has been immensely popular among MBA students. A case in point would be the participation of students from about 60 B-schools with around 800 entries from all over India in DHRUV ’09. DHRUV imbibes a feeling of unity among the students of different institutes by  bringing them together under one roof and inculcating in their minds a common vision. This is one competition where every institute wins.
   

• SUMMERS'08
  Summers is an inter-collegiate paper presentation competition organized with the objective of orienting the first year students about the different specializations and the type of projects they would have to work on during their summer internships. B-Schools across the country are invited for this event and the participants are required to present a paper based on their summer project. Summers'08 secured an overwhelming response with participants from reputed institutes like Jamnalal Bajaj (Mumbai), K J Sommaiya (Mumbai) etc. Some of the important dignitaries present at the event were:
  Jagannath Patnaik – VP (Sales & Marketing) – Quick Heal, Parag Bhayani – Infosys Technologies, Bhooshan Agalgatti – Director – NVIDIA, Gajanan Sathe – Director technical – Fresinus Kabhi, Devinder Lamba – Solution Architect – BMC Software
  
   

• SHRAMDAAN PUMBA
  A novel way to induct the juniors into PUMBA, SHRAMDAAN is generally conducted in early August. All the students assemble in PUMBA on a Sunday and are randomly divided into groups. They then get busy in giving the PUMBA building a complete make-over! All the classrooms, cells, library, computer lab, notice boards, office as well as the lawns alongside are put in order. Refreshments are arranged for all, by the Cultural Cell. The day ends with some games like tug-of-war or cricket. SHRAMDAAN is an opportunity for the juniors to make new friends, have a fun-filled interaction and get used to the PUMBA environ in a better way.
   

• ADIOS AMIGOS
  The official PUMBA farewell for the last year MBA students as they get ready to graduate from campus to corporate. Managed fully by the 1st year MBA students, ADIOS AMIGOS is a fun-filled half-day event. The senior students are addressed by the respected faculty members in PUMBA and then the stage is thrown open for the seniors, to share with the juniors, a few moments and experiences from their journey in PUMBA. The event also includes some games and stage performances by the ever-enthusiastic PUMBA ites. The seniors are also presented with a PUMBA memento as a souvenir.