To accomplish this objective, Surya World has spread its ambit of activities to the following :

• “Surya Champs” – Annual connect with meritorious students since 2009
• 2010- National Level HR Summit-Academic Industry Partnership
• 2010- Management Summit –Strategic Leadership
• 2011-Job Fest- Mass Employment Drive
• Industry Interface and Exposure Visits
• Executive Excellence Programme & Finishing School – Employability Skills
• Faculty Development Programs

Surya World Champs, an extremely innovative concept of gauging the talent of young , was instituted in 2008 and within two years since its inception, the Surya World Champs has established as a very prestigious competition for National IQ Test because of its qualitative analysis and fair approach. The sheer numbers of the students taking the test exceeding 8000 of classes X and XII representing over 55 schools in 2010 is a testimony to the popularity and credibility of the test

To honour these young bright stars of tomorrow, Surya world Champs Felicitation Ceremony was organised was organized at Bhargava Auditorium , P.G.I. Chandigarh. It was a moment of elation and pride for more than 300 students of Class X, XI and XII of the Chandigarh Tricity, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh when they received the Surya Champs awards from the Guest of Honour, Dr. Vidhu Mohan, former Chairperson of Department of Psychology, Punjab University.

Addressing the students and the delegates in the hall packed to its capacity, Dr. Vidhu Mohan appreciated the endeavor undertaken by Surya World to inculcate the habit of making an extra effort to sharpen general knowledge and subject skills among students. She emphasized on making early career choices and highlighted various career options available to them.

Highlighting the changing facets of HR industry, Dr Rajneesh Arora, Vice Chancellor, Punjab Technical University and the Chief Guest on the occasion, exhorted the corporate world to account for the talent pool on the asset side to account for the true picture of their wealth. Delivering his inaugural speech at the Surya World's HR Summit at the CII Northern Region Headquarters, Dr Arora said that the time has come that to look at the huge population of our country as an asset rather than a burden. He also called for an academia-industry partnership in order to create better human resource managers.

Mr Rajiv Goyal, Chairman & Managing Director, Surya Corp, shared his perspective about the initiative and said that the Summit aimed at bringing together HR professionals, academicians and researchers to deliberate on the various aspects of human resource management.

Addressed by eminent HR experts including Lt.Col. (retd) M S Dhaliwal—Head HR, Groz Beckert, Dr Ajay Singh– Sr Faculty,IIM Lucknow and Mr Amarjeet Patpatia– Management Head, Indian School of Integrated Learning, Bombay, the Summit turned out to be a very enriching and learning experience for over 200 delegates comprising faculty and students of Surya World and various other industries from adjoining places

Organised at PHD Chamber of Commerce, Chandigarh on November 27, 2010, the Management Summit on the theme “Managing Corporate Performance for Competitiveness” provided a platform for sharing views, research findings and expertise on a wide variety of critical issues arising in managing the organizations among industry professionals, eminent speakers and students, stated Mr Rajiv Goyal, Chairman, Surya Educational and Charitable Trust, while sharing the objectives of the initiative.

Speaking as the Chief Guest, Dr. Rakesh Tuli, Executive Director National Agri Food Biotechnology Institutes presented valuable insights on the strategic leadership for competitive edge. Carrying forward the theme, Dr Arun K Jain, Professor of Strategy, IIM, Ahmedabad said, “If becoming a strategist is the ''ends', then leadership is the 'ways' and development is the 'means'.

Attended by over 200 delegates from reputed business houses, senior and middle management, academicians and students, the Summit was also addressed by eminent speakers like Mr R S Dabas ( Head-HR, JBM) and Dr C P Shrimali (MDI,Gurgaon). The Summit concluded with the valedictory address from Dr A S Chawla from Punjabi University.

Though the Group has tremendous potential to absorb large number of pass outs from many streams within the Group companies, but to facilitate the students of the region, the Institute organised Job-Fest within the campus within six months of its inception. This initiative received huge response both from corporates as well as students in all streams from the adjoining areas.

Once academics over, next agenda was to ensure the placement of the students in the best of the companies and we are one of the very institutes in the region to attract the most sought after companies on our campus. The placement drive of Surya World School of Management commenced successfully with the visit of Thyrocare Technologies Ltd to the campus for recruitment. Eight of our students got the offer letters from the company attracting heavy pay packages and lucrative fringe benefits along with the promise of future appraisals and pay hikes.

Other industry giants who visited the campus for recruitment include Religare, Reliance, Indigo, Hindustan Times, Max Tel, Full Turn India, IBM, Wipro, Bharat Books, Bharat Mart, Max Healthcare who interviewed B Tech, MBA and B Pharma students.

Good for the students who made it in their first attempt but those who could not, have something to cheer about as they did get the orientation about industry expectations which would stand in good stead for them to successfully crack/clear interviews for any other future job avenues.

To have a better understanding of the challenges and key concerns facing the education industry as well as to explore potential for bilateral collaborations, a high level team from Surya World attended the FICCI Higher Education Summit 2010 organised in New Delhi.

The Surya World knowledge centre in the exposition organised concurrent to the conference was a huge attraction for the delegates and was visited by key dignitaries including Mr. David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities & Science, who evinced a lot of interest in bilateral tie up with Surya World.

Surya World made their presence felt even across the sea when they showcased at the Times of India Education Fair at Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The response received at the exposition was quite encouraging with visitors thronging the stall the entire day checking out various courses, duration etc. What is noteworthy here is that all these visitors seemed as visibly impressed by the company's profile and verticals as by the state of the art campus of the Surya World.

With an intent to bridge the existing gap in the needs of the Industries and Academics and help the students to get the required knowledge and know how to be industry ready, our Finishing School focuses on these main objectives:

• To reinforce the skills of the students and acquire industry-specific knowledge from trained faculty and experts for industries.
• To improve their communication as well as management skills.
• To improve technical and soft skills to facilitate employability.
• To bridge the gap between industry and educational institutions.
• To create a platform where the students can work towards accessing the skills required to get into industry.
• To help young graduates find jobs through appropriate training.

To generate employability skills amongst MBA students, the institution introduced an Executive Excellence Program during the year 2010-11 for the students of Management, the key highlights of which are as under :

• The course curriculum has been carefully designed by involving experts from academics as well as industry and the lecture plan has been developed after studying the requirement of the industry from newly passed out management professionals such that the need for any training is obviated.
• This course content has been divided into four parts namely one each for three specializations in the area of Finance, Marketing and Human Resource and the fourth one is based on the contents that are common to all the three specializations.
• These contents are delivered by experts drawn from industry and the delivery of education is through assignments, case studies and projects which are given to these students and they work under identified experts from the industry in relevant areas of specialization.
• The objective of this Program is to give hands on experience in dealing with organizational programs in work like situations through simulation.
• This module gives an opportunity to students to apply the principles and theory of management to practical situation and thus get transformed into true professionals.
• The institute is continuing the research on various aspects and requirements of the industry and thereby updating this course curriculum so that the students can derive maximum advantage out of this module.
• This module is delivered to the student as a part of the curriculum for management at no extra charge.