Raipur. “Success is never by chance one should aim high and work hard to achieve success and to treat people as they like to be treated.” said  Dr.SumitMitra, CEO of TESCO Global Business Services and Tesco Bengaluru during a special visit and interactive session at Kalinga University. He addressed the students of the University on 2, May 2022.

Dr. R Shridhar, Vice Chancellor of Kalinga University gave the welcome address and explained the objectives behind the skill-based education being imparted to the students at the university and encouraged students for developing an entrepreneurship oriented attitude.

Mr.SomnathBaishya, People Director, Tesco Business Services and Tesco Bengaluru, Mr.VenkatRaghavan, Associate Director and Global Head, Analytics, Tesco Business Services and Ms.Kusum Singh, COO, Kingsmead Business Solutions Ltd. UK accompanied Dr.SumitMitra during the interactive session.

While addressing the students Dr.Mitradiscussed with the help of a PowerPoint presentation about business leadership and his inspirational journey in life.

He emphasized developing future based skills. He opined that by 2026 sixty per cent jobs of in Europe will not exist as the jobs will be taken over by robots with Artificial Intelligence.  Medical surgeries will be done by robots. He opined that one should be curious and should continue learning new things as the world is for learners. Wartime leadership qualities should be developed. When during crisis customers lose purchasing power one should ensure how to serve the customers at a minimum price.

At the same time, one should enhance their communicative skills and should be able to explain his condition or situation in 30 seconds to 1 minute.  He gave examples of his life, at the age of 16 he served as a chef, at the age of 19 he served as an entrepreneur and had his own restaurant, later he became a Doctor, did MBA and finally became a Business leader. Knowledge, skills and attitude make a man successful, he added. Later the guests took a tour of the Kalinga University campus.

Dignitaries of Kalinga University, faculties and large numbers of students were present during the programme.