OP Jindal Global University celebrates life & legacy of late Pritam Singh

New Delhi, Oct 5 : The O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) in collaboration with the Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI), NHRD network, Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) and Manav Rachna Vidyanatariksha organised a leadership colloquium in memory of Padma Shri awardee, late Pritam Singh, former Director of IIM, Lucknow and MDI, Gurgaon.
Remembering the life and legacy of Singh, JGU’s Founding Vice-Chancellor, C. Raj Kumar, said, “Pritam Singh was not only an erudite academician, but also a great leader and institutional builder. Over the past several years, he has guided the efforts and initiatives of several universities and institutions to achieve academic excellence. His demise has been a huge loss to our nation and to the higher education landscape of India.” In relation to the Leadership Colloquium, Professor Kumar said, “Dr. Pritam Singh’s life is a celebration of social impact created, particularly through education. He was a true karmayogi who contributed to various aspects of higher education, institution building and nation building. He played an instrumental role in shaping the minds of the leadership of organizations and enabling policies that had a positive impact on our society. Therefore, this colloquium was our humble attempt to pay respect to his legacy by discussing the very importance of social impact through social responsibility of businesses.” The colloquium had some very invigorating and intellectual deliberations to envision the future of social responsibility of businesses, and integration of this vision with the contributions and learnings from Pritam Singh’s life.
Commemorating the life of Pritam Singh, Jyoti Gupta, Emeritus Professor of Finance, ESCP Business School, said that he appreciated Pritam Singh’s belief to be able to draw from Indian philosophy, and how it should be integrated within the management schools for creating socially responsible leaders.
He said, “When you see his movement, his Directorship at MDI and IIM Lucknow, you see that he has brought in Indian philosophy in the management education.” He mentioned that Dr. Singh believed that ‘a leader should not be a value extractor, but a value creator’.