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 International Conference on India and China

An International Conference on India and China: Economic, Social and Cultural Perspectives in collaboration with Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, China was organized by International Management Institute at the IMI B campus on 14^th and 15^th of December, 2018. An interview was taken regarding the conference by Prof. Ramakrushna Panigrahi and Prof. Supriti Mishra in which some questions were asked regarding the challenges and expectations they have gone through from they thought of organizing such a grand conference . The key questions of the interview are as follows.

Prof. Ramakrushna  Panigrahi's Interview

QUESTION: What challenges did you face while conducting such cross-country conference?
The main challenge that we faced while organizing this conference was to arrange VISA for all the delegates & coordinators. The application for VISA is a very long process and the duration for which you get VISA is very short.  Another challenge for us was to attract good quality research papers from the participants.

QUESTION: How this conference will be beneficial for our college?

The conference had witness footfalls of many researchers which will benefit in creating awareness about our college. We are also planning to release all the research papers of the conference in a book form.

QUESTION: What had been your expectations from the Indo-China conference this year?

We have hosted this conference in 2016 as well. So this year we had expected more number of research papers, more number of participants, and more researchers to be a part of this conference.

QUESTION: What had been the take away from the conference for the students?

The students had got exposure to multicultural environment. The got the chance to gain knowledge from the research papers that had been presented in the conference. Many students had also volunteered in this conference from our college, so they got an idea of how to manage such kinds of international events.

QUESTION: Which all countries had participated in this conference?

We had received research papers from India and China only. However the conference was open for all the countries.

Question: How many participants are generally involved in this conference? 
Generally we had 50+ research papers excluding the paper presentation from our own college. We had 100-120 participants approximately.

Prof. Supriti Mishra's Interview

QUESTION: What challenges did you faced while conducting such cross-country conference?

While organizing such cross country conference the main issue that we came across was of the socio-political relationship between the governments of the two countries. The social-political culture that had been prevalent in these two countries came into picture & influenced the way delegates perceived such kinds of international conferences.

QUESTION: How this conference will be beneficial for our college?

Any management student requires a global perspective of the issues. These kinds of cross country conferences help students to develop an understanding of business in global platform.

QUESTION: What did you expected from the Indo-China conference this year?

We had expected more number of good research papers, academia and researchers from across the borders. We looked forward to have nice exchange of ideas between the countries.

QUESTION: What had been the take away from the conference for the students?

 The students got deeper insight about various issues and also got an opportunity to gain knowledge from the micro perspective.

QUESTION: Which all countries had participated in this conference?

We had received papers from India and China only but we were open to research papers from different countries.

Question: How many participants had been involved in this conference? 

We had 100-150+ participants in this conference. Apart from them we had the faculty and students of our college who had presented their paper in the conference.