FIRST GRADUATION DAY -25-04-2014 WELCOME ADDRESS AND ANNUAL REPORT Good morning to ladies and gentlemen, Im,

extremely happy to extend a very warm welcome to our beloved chairman Mr.V.Ayyappan, who devotes much of his time in uplifting the living standards of the people in this area in particular downtrodden community by means of providing quality education in this backward area.

Im delighted to welcome our young and energetic treasurer of the trust Mr.P.Ramasubramanian on this happy occasion. I feel happy to welcome all the trustees who extend their fullest cooperation in running these institutions successfully. Today we are fortunate enough to have in our mist Dr.S.Kalyamoorthy, Convener, Vice-Chancellor officiating committee, Alagappa University to deliver graduation day address. he is a doyen in the field of management education .he is well known through out India .he has been awarded the best teacher award .under his dynamic leadership Alagappa institute of management has been awarded the best management institute by Hindustan Unilever Ltd.He is a gold medalist in his B.L programme his students are occupying coveated positions in MultiNational Companies.he is a very good academician and also a good administrator.it is appropriate that such a personlatity is going to deliver first graduation address of this upcoming institutions.Im very happyto whole heartedly welcome our chief guest Dr.S.Kalyamoorthy. Im very glad to extend a very warm welcome to Dr.R.Thandapani,Advisor ,the principals of Karaikudi Institute of Management & Karaikudi Institute of Technology.

Today this program is organized for the students who have been graduated in this institute and they are going to be awarded the MBA degrees of Anna University, Chennai. They have come over here with happiness to receive their degrees. Im very happy to welcome all my students. I feel proud to extend a very warm welcome to all the parents and their family members who have come over here. The success of any institution mainly depends upon faculty members. It is their efforts which made it possible to achieve the goal. I welcome All the Hods, all the teaching staff and all the non-teaching staff. Press Reporters give lot of encouragement to our institutions. Actually it is their support which motivates us. A Warm welcome to all the press reporters.

CERTIFICATES, AWARDS AND MEDALS STUDENTS

M.Saranya of MBA secured the 33rd university rank in the MBA degree examination held in June 2013 among 8599 candidates graduated from Anna University Chennai. A.Pandiselvi of MBA secured the 48th university rank in the MBA degree examination held in June 2013 among 8599 candidates graduated from Anna University Chennai. Cent percent placement achieved for the first batch of MBA during the year 2013. All the Final year students who have passed in June 2013 have secured first class in the university examination. A.Pandiselvi who had undertaken a project work at Leather Craft India, Chennai had impressed the authorities during the project period, such a performance made the company to change its policy of not appointing any trainee and she was appointed in the department of HR of that Multinational Company.

 As a Social responsibility the institute has organized seminars for three thousand students in this area on Career Guidance, besides the institute has given training to the poor students of this area as to How to face competitive examination,viz; IBPS.etc

FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES Dr. S. Annamalai, Principal, published a research paper entitled Perception of MFI Borrowers in Kanchipuram District in Tamil Nadu on the Economic Impact, International Journal of Marketing , Financial Services & Management Research, AprilJune 2013, Pg-42-55.. Dr. S. Annamalai, Principal, published a research paper entitled Micro Finance A Finance Supply Chain to Poor, Behavioural Science in Investment Decision, Sankara Institute of Management Science, April 2012, Pg-100.

Mr. AL.Alagappan, Associate Professor, Karaikudi Institute of Management, member

has submitted a paper in the international conference at NPR College Natham, which was accepted and appreciated not only by the participants but also the chairperson of the technical session of the seminar.

Seminar/Workshop
Karaikudi Institute of Management organized a large number of seminars and workshops for the benefits of the students to point out a few, 1. Mr.Meyyappan Meenakshi sundaram,Sr project manager ,Microsoft corporation,USA. 2. Mr. Pitchappan Pethatchi, Director, Global Process Service International Business Machine (IBM). 3. Mr. Subbu Kumarappan,Assistant Professor, OHIO State University, Wooster OH.

4. Dr.K.Srinivasan,Professor of mangement studies,St Marys University,USA

5. Dr.R.Venkatachalam,Senior Training Manager,Emirates National Bank of Dubai 6. Mr. Joerg Nierman ,Marketing Director NORD Drive Systems Pvt. Ltd., Germany and Managing Director, 7. Mr. P L. Muthusekkar,Managing Director, NORD Drive Systems Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India. 8. Mr. V. Ravindran,General Manager, BHEL. 9. Mr. S.Balachandar ,Chief Regional Manager, Indian Over Seas Bank. 10. Dr.M.Karthick,Associate Professor,Indian Institute of Public Enterprises,Hyderabad.

Industrial vists: To have practical exposure students have visted industries namely 1.BHEL 2.TI Diamond chains etc. PROJECT WORK: Summer project and final project are undertaken by the students under the able guidance of faculty members. During the course of the project work students learn a lot from the practical world which gives confidence to face any challenges. THANK YOU