Effects of Covid-19 & Lockdown On Trade, Industries, Modern Businesses & Different Sectors of Economy - 13th Feb 2021
Conference Date: 13th Feb 2021
Conference Venue: Online on Zoom platform
Chief Guest: Dr. Dhanraj Mane, Director-Directorate of Higher Education, Govt of Maharashtra
Key note Speaker: Dr. Prabodh Chobe, Former SGM & Head of R&D Centre, BASF
Resource Person of Technical Session: Dr. Sneha Deshpande, Former HOD, Dept. of Economics, Nagpur University
Valedictory Guest: Mr. Atul Joshi, AGM, HO, Marketing In-Charge Bank of Maharashtra
Objectives
The
conference was organized with the aim to assess and evaluate the impact of
Covid -19 lockdown on major sectors of Indian economy and to find out solutions
to improve those sectors which were worst affected by lockdown.
Report
One
day national conference was organized in collaboration with IDOL, University of
Mumbai and Technical partner IIDE on 13th February 2021.The
conference started with the welcome address of the Principal Dr. Neelam Arora
and Dr. Prakash Mahanwar, followed by the introduction of chief guest Dr. Dhanraj
Mane by Dr. Vinay Pandit. Dr. Mane briefly spoke on the challenges India was
facing amidst pandemic and the initiatives which Govt of India is taking to
overcome the same. Key note speaker Dr. Prabodh Chobe was introduced by Dr. Arun
Pujari. He gave detailed insight into what initiatives need to be taken by the
policy makers to solve the crisis the economy was facing due to lock-down. This
was followed by the enlightening address of Dr. Sneha Deshpande who emphasized
on the positive aspects in development of small businesses during lock down
period.
The
three tracks sessions chaired by esteemed dignitaries, saw large number of papers presented by the
research scholars and faculties across the country on diverse areas pertaining
to the theme of the conference.
The
guest of the valedictory session was Mr. Atul Joshi (AGM, HO, Marketing
In-Charge Bank of Maharashtra). He specially emphasized on the initiatives and
schemes launched by Bank of Maharashtra to mitigate the Covid-19 effect on
development of industries ,trade and commerce in the state.
Towards
the end the formal vote of thanks was proposed by the vice -principal Ms. Vidya
Bhide.
Outcome
More
than 40 papers were presented in each track covering topics like impact and
implications of covid-19 on areas of digital marketing, trade and commerce,
transport and tourism sector, retail sector, education, bio-diversity and
wildlife.