gaya iim bodh gaya during a grand orientation programme that began on july 5 welcomed an academically diverse batch of 285 students to the eighth batch of its mba programme and nine scholars to its third phd programme the threeday gala event will conclude on thursday the programme was attended by all the new students along with esteemed guests faculty members and the existing studentsof the 285 students inducted in the mba programme 60 are female with 146 students having previous work experience the average work experience of the batch is 30 months the batch comprises of students from multiple disciplines like engineering science commerce humanities management language law dentistry fashion designing and pharmacythis year nine new phd scholars including four females have been admitted to the institute in the areas of operations management economics finance organizational behaviour and human resource management strategy marketing and itsuch a diverse batch of students with varied mindsets is always a boon as they contribute to the classroom discussions and activities and grow togetheron the first day the ceremony commenced with vedic chanting and a bharatnatyam recital of ganesh vandana by the students it was followed by the lighting of the lamp dr prabhat ranjan chairperson admissions committee presented the profiles of the new batches of students prof md laeequddin chairperson phd talked about the phd programme while prof archana patro chairperson pgp introduced the mba programme and described the course curriculum and structureprof vinita sahay director iim bodh gaya welcomed the new batch and wished them good luck for an exciting and enriching journey with the institute she guided the students through the core ideas and principles of the institute and emphasized that the vision of the institute is to make future mindful and socially responsible business leaders the orientation saw many eminent speakers conducting informative sessions for the students the first session of day 1 was marked by a talk of abhik chatterjee md partner bcg who talked about the importance of team work pratyay amrit additional chief secretary health govt of bihar said some are born leaders some invite these qualities for some they dont make it to that class but they are brilliant followers and if you are happy with that so be itshashank kumar cofounder ceo dehaat underlined the importance of job creation for a developing country like india atul singh founder ceo chief editor fair observer also joined the programme online and talked about freedom of ideas creativity and innovationsudhakaran srambikal ceo cofounder qugates technology talked about the links between intelligence consciousness and enlightening leadership sajjad ahmed senior director hr capgemini supratik bhattacharyya senior vp and chief talent officer rpg group and megha kapil director talent acquisition pwc were the other eminent guests who discussed various aspects of business and managementthe first day concluded with an engaging cultural event called novicia organized by the cultural committee of iim bodh gaya the existing and new groups of students showcased their talents in dancing poetry recitation