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	AIMA FELICITATES GAMBHIR KOLKATA: India opener Gautam Gambhir was conferred 'Managing India' award by President Pratibfia Patil at a felicitation programme organised by the All India Management Association (AIMA). Gambhir, who missed two Tests and the ODI tri-series in Lanka after a knee injury, received the award at the AIMA convention at a city hotel here. The southpaw has been named skipper to lead the Board President's XI in a three-day practice match against Australia in Chandigarh from September 25. PNS/AGENCIES Business Line ND23-Sep-10 p-4 AIMA to conduct online management aptitude test Our Bureau Kolkata The All India Management Association (AIMA) will hold an online test to evaluate business school students on their employability, in line with current industry trends. Referred to as the Management Aptitude and Skills Test (MAST), the test will be conducted on an annual basis, beginning February 2011. Considering the variation in the quality of course material, faculty and other facilities at B-schools across the country, MAST will rate the students in terms of their readiness to enter the corporate world, the AIMA President, Mr Sanjiv Goenka, told newspersons at a press conference here on Tuesday. According to him, MAST will address employers' long standing grievance poor employability of a large number of fresh management graduates. 'LEVEL PLAYING FIELD' Mr Roopen Roy, Managing Director of Deloitte, said that such a test may offer a level-playing field to fresh management graduates from relatively lesser-known institutions in the country. Business Line ND 23-Sep-10, P-1 AIMA convention 'Invest more in farm sector': The President Ms Pratibha Patil, releasing a book during AIMA 37th national management convention in Kolkata on Wednesday. To her right is the West Bengal Governor, Mr M. K. Narayanan, and to her left is the AIMA President, Mr Sanjiv Goenka. The President called for increased corporate investment in agriculture sector. Telegraph Kolkata 22.09.2010 p-17 AIMA rolls out B-test beyond campus OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT After you bell the CAT, scale the MAST. Those coming out of B-school may soon be able to take the Management Aptitude & Skill Test (MAST) to expose themselves to a wider selection of companies than during campus placements. The All India Management Association (AIMA) on Tuesday announced its plans to introduce MAST in February 2011 to create a "level-playing field" among business school pass-outs. AIMA is holding its 37th national management convention in the city on Wednesday and Thursday, with The Telegraph as partner. The two-day meet, to be inaugurated by President Pratibha Patil, is back in Calcutta after three years. Sanjiv Goenka, the president of the association, said the test would be a win-win for corporates as well as students. "There are hundreds of business schools in India but most companies do not know much about them except the IIMs, ISB and some others. MAST can be a standard for judging the quality of these pass-outs. I hope MAST becomes a must for students and corporates," said Goenka. Association members said B-school pass-outs could take the annual test online after paying Rs 1,500. Roopen Roy the managing director of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the knowledge partner of the convention, said the test would create a level-playing field among lob-seekers. "Companies like ours may not visit most of the B-schools. but if talented students from any B-school rank well in MAST, we may look at them,"Roysaid. The test is being designed based on the feedback from various corporate houses. MAST has already received endorsement from 100 companies and another 100 are expected to loin. Rekha Sethi, the director-general of AIMA, said the test could be taken more than once if there was demand for it. At the AIMA convention, corporate leaders, politicians and bureaucrats will brainstorm "Managing India: Opportunities & Challenges". About 800 delegates will take part, and speakers include Union road and transport minister Kamal Nath, Unique Identification Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani, B. Muthuraman, the vice-chairman of Tata Steel, Deepak Parekh, the chairman of HDFC, and Gautam Thapar, the chairman of Avantha Group, who will take over as the chairman of AIMA. At the session with the President on Wednesday, governor M.K. Narayanan will be the guest of honour. Economic Times Kolkata 22.09.2010 p-8 AIMA plans test to evaluate B-Schools Our Bureau COME   February   2011, management school passouts will have lo track an entrance test to finally bag jobs. The All India Management Association {ALMA) plans to stall a computer-based screening test, which will assess a B-school graduate's skill-sets required to become an effective manager. Big recruiters like Deloitte, Dabur, MetLife India, Idea Cellular, Camlin Ltd, Alembic Ltd, 1ILL, Pfizer, Fade, PwC India, McAiee, Nokia, Lenovo, JM Financial, Reliance Industries, Suzlon and Tata Communications have agreed to use the score of the AIMA test during f heir recruitment exercise. "In the job market, recruiters are met with a daunting task to choose the right candidate and fresh management graduates need counselling lo pick the right job which suits their skill –sets test to school grads interests and capabilities. This test will help both the students and recruiters," said AIMA president and RPG Enterprises vice-chairman Sanjiv Goenka in a press meet here on Tuesday. The 150-minute test, christened Management Aptitude and Skills Test (MAST), will test the candidate's management aptitude, domain knowledge in areas of specialisation like finance, marketing, HR, international business, operations 6- IT, and will assess their personality traits such as leadership, stress, decision making, stability and teamwork abilities. The first test is scheduled to be held on February 20,2011 across India. AIMA expects MAST to benefit the recruiters by presenting them with a detailed analysis of the skill-sets a candidate possesses, which, in turn, is expected to reduce the end-recruitment time and costs involved. The concept of MAST was developed based on a study by IMRB on behalf of AIMA.