Dr. V Raman Nair at TAPMI

Paper presented
Dr.V.Raman Nair, Additional Director , SCMS presented a paper on ” Technology for service quality enhancement” at the International Conference on ‘Process and Technology: Key drivers for customer-focused service management’ at TAPMI, Manipal on February 15.

Effective government intervention in Kuttanad, need of the hour – SSTM study report

Effective government intervention with people participation is very much the need of the hour to save Kuttanad from the present grave crisis faced by the farmers, says a report of the study made by SSTM students.
The paddy fields extending to nearly 500 square km. in Alappuzha district of Kerala had, till recently, been known as [...]

SSTM NEWS _ MARCH

Paper published
An article by Dr.N.Rajagopal, Associate Professor and Shri Ajay Kumar Pillai, Lecturer, titled “Inter-relations between system variables and effectiveness variables in the context of organizational change”, was published in the journal Business Review, December 2007 issue.
Articles accepted
An article titled ‘Role of marketing channels in building a business’ by Dr.Susan Chirayath, Professor, has been accepted [...]

SCMS NEWS- MARCH

Budget analysis
More efforts needed to boost agriculture
– Shri Venugopal C. Govind
More efforts would be needed to make agriculture a sustainable economic activity in the country, said Shri Venugopal C. Govind, noted Chartered Accountant, while speaking on the Union Budget at SCMS-COCHIN on March 5. He also suggested public-private partnership and better government-people partnership in [...]

SSET NEWS

National Service Scheme (Technical)
The NSS Technical Cell of SSET conducted a blood donation camp on March 12. This time there were 97 donors from SSET, which included 2 teaching staff members too. The camp was organized in collaboration with IMA Blood Bank and Research Centre Thrissur. Earlier Dr. Babu, of IMA, conducted an awareness programme [...]

SCMS Institute of Biotechnology develops process for producing White Steviol – ‘Sweetener of the future’

A team of scientists headed by Dr.C.Mohankumar, Director, SCMS Institute for Bioscience and Biotech Research and Development (SIBB-R&D) has developed a process for producing white steviol powder, a potential natural sweetener, from mature Stevia leaves. The process is economical and reliable. The processing protocol has been filed for Indian patent as no. 1436/CHE/2007.
Stevia rebaudiana, popularly [...]