India has tested more than 6 lakh COVID-19 samples for the third consecutive day in a row. India’s resolve to rapidly increase the number of tests done per day has resulted in a successful march towards 10 lakh per day testing capacity with 6 lakh 64 thousand 949 tests conducted in the last 24 hours.
 
The Tests Per Million too have seen a sharp rise to more than sixteen thousand. A key component for the successful implementation of the “Test, Track and Treat” strategy has been the continuously expanding network of diagnostic labs across the country. The lab network as on today consists of 1370 labs. These consist of 921 labs in the government sector and 449 private labs.

A Mega Hackathon will be organised today where the top finalists selected under the ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge’ across categories will be showcasing their Apps.

The Mega Hackathon will be streamed live from 12 noon to 5 PM on Social Media platforms of MyGov India and Digital India.

The AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge’, was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4th of last month, which saw participation from 6 thousand 9 hundred 40 tech entrepreneurs and start-ups across the country.

The mega Challenge had entries for 9 different categories namely Business, eLearning, Entertainment, Games, Health, News, Office and Work from Home, Others and Social.

National Handloom Day is being organised today by the Ministry of Textiles on a virtual platform. Textiles Minister Smriti Irani will be the Chief Guest on the occasion. During the function, handloom clusters across India, NIFT campuses, all the 28 Weaver Service Centres, National Handloom Development Corporation and others will be connected online.

7th August was chosen as the National Handloom Day to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement which was launched on the same date in the year 1905. The objective is to generate awareness about the Handloom Industry among the public and its contribution to socio-economic development.

To mark the occasion and to instil pride in the workmanship of handloom weaving amongst citizens, a social media campaign is planned for the handloom weaving community.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, the Handloom and Handicrafts of India encompass a glorious history of hundreds of years.

In his Mann Ki Baat address on All India Radio last month, the Prime Minister urged everyone to use Indian Handloom and Handicrafts as much as possible, and also communicate to more and more people about them. He said, local artisans and weavers will benefit from conversations about the richness and diversity of Indian handloom and handicrafts.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the correct and positive approach always goes a long way in transforming distressing times into opportunities, adversities into triggers of development and progress.

The country’s first Kisan Special Parcel Train or Kisan Rail will start from today. The train will start at 11 AM and it will transport material between Maharashtra’s Devlali and Bihar’s Danapur Railway station. The Kisan Rail will carry fruits and vegetables and will make stoppages at several stations and pick-up and deliver them.

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Rail Minister Piyush Goyal will flag off the train through video link. The train is scheduled to reach its destination Danapur tomorrow at 6:45 PM, covering a distance of one thousand 519 kilometres in around 32 hours.

The train will halt at Nasik Road, Manmad, Jalgaon, Bhusaval, Burhanpur, Khandwa, ltarsi, Jabalpur, Satna, Katni, Manikpur, Prayagraj Chheoki, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Nagar and Buxar.

With the launch of Kisan Rail, the Railways aims to help double farmers’ income. The Railway Ministry said, this will help in bringing perishable agricultural products like vegetables, fruits to the market in a short period of time.

The Kisan Rail train with frozen containers is expected to build a seamless national cold supply chain for perishables, inclusive of fish, meat and milk. Our correspondent reports that, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced to start ‘Kisan Rail’ in the current year’s Budget, for providing a seamless supply chain of perishable produce. 

The Manipur government has extended the ongoing complete lockdown and curfew in the state till 15th of August in view of the rise in COVID-19 cases.

The entire state was under complete lockdown and curfew from 23rd July till yesterday to contain the spread of the deadly virus.

A Cabinet meeting led by Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh was held last evening to review the crisis. During the meeting, the decision was taken to extend the ongoing complete lockdown in the state till 15th of this month.

An official order issued by the State Chief Secretary said, certain relaxations will be allowed during this period. All locality based retails shops dealing with essential commodities will be opened in all districts from 8 am to 12 noon on all days except Sundays.

Moreover, certain parts of Imphal market and other markets in districts will be opened on roster basis to cater the requirement of retailers.

Former Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Girish Chandra Murmu will be the new Comptroller and Auditor General of the country. Mr Murmu will succeed Rajiv Mehrishi.

An IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, Mr Murmu resigned as Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the Inaugural Address at the ‘Conclave on Transformational Reforms in Higher Education under National Education Policy’ today.

The conclave that is being organised through video conference, will have sessions dedicated to significant aspects of education covered under the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. These include holistic, multidisciplinary and futuristic education, Quality Research, and Equitable use of technology for better reach in Education.

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and Union Minister of State for Education, Sanjay Dhotre will also participate in the event. A number of dignitaries including the Chairman and Members, Committee for Draft NEP as well as eminent academicians and scientists will speak on different aspects of the National Education Policy.

Vice-Chancellors of universities, Directors of Institutions and Principals of colleges and other stakeholders will also participate in the programme. 

Tick-borne SFTS virus  has re-emerged in China, killing around  7 people and has infected almost 60 people. This was reported on August 5 ,2020. As the virus  is infecting several people , it has also set warning of transmission of virus from human to Human.

HRD strategy

Attracting and keeping talented and skilled employees is one of the most important challenges organisations face in today’s dynamic business world. No strategy, no matter how well designed, will work unless the organisation has the right people, with the right skills and behaviour, in the right roles, motivated in the right way and supported by the right leaders.

A strategy is the long-term planning that is developed and implemented by top management. These plans are used to seize opportunities and allocate resources. It includes plans to create new products, to acquire other companies, to sell unprofitable aspects of the business, to make shares available, and to enter international markets. A strategy is the long-term planning that is developed and implemented by top management. These plans are used to seize opportunities and allocate resources. It includes plans to create new products, to acquire other companies, to sell unprofitable aspects of the business, to make shares available, and to enter international markets.

Strategic human resource development has multiple benefits, including:

• Increasing extrinsic and intrinsic job satisfaction
• Boosted customer satisfaction
• Effective and efficient use of resources
• Development of a working environment
• Making human resource development activities proactive and impactful
• Equipping human resources to apply theoretical knowledge practically
• Increasing productivity

Develop effective strategy:

Step:1 know your company inside and outside : Before crafting your strategy, know your organization thoroughly. Understand the organization’s goals, current positions, current workforce, and workforce strengths. Ask yourself: “Can your organization’s internal capabilities deliver on its business goals?” To understand the organizational hierarchy and structure, talk to your employees and find out if they are motivated and/or if they have challenges.

Step:2 Craft your HR strategy: Once you have identified potential threats and opportunities, it is time to develop a strategy. The strategy should be simple, yet include all aspects of human resources development. It should also be communicated to individuals from other departments who must be involved in implementing the strategy.

Step:3 Resource analysis: Implementation of most HR strategies require a considerate amount of resources. It is important that you evaluate the company’s current and required monetary and logistic resources. Match the two and check for deviations. If there is a lack of resources, analyze ways to obtain funding.

Step:4 Implementation: Having the resources and having a perfect strategy would not be worth it if action is not taken. Implementation is the most important part of a developing a human resources strategy. Putting your plans into action and seeing the process through to completion is essential.

Step:5 Follow up: Once you start putting your strategy into action, keep track of the progress. Check for changes to be made along the way. Once you notice any change in performance, or deviation from the plan, identify the root cause of the issue and ensure it gets correctly in a timely fashion.

step:6 Corrective action: Identifying the cause is not enough; you need to take corrective action. Create a backup plan to ensure that performance results are back on track with the original strategy. In some cases, a modified strategy may be necessary to reach the desired goal.

Barriers:

• Interdepartmenal conflict
• Limited time, money and the resources
• High resistance due to lack of corporation of bottom line
• The commitment of entire senior management teams
• Fear towards victimization in the wake of failure.
• Economic and market pressures influenced the adoption of strategic HRM
• Presence of an active labour union.

Industrial relation

According to “International Labour Organization (ILO)” Industrial Relations deal with either the relationship between the state and employers and workers organizations or the relation between the occupational organizations themselves”. Industrial relations refers to the relationship that exists between the employer and employees in the day-to-day working of an organization.

Industrial relations has become one of the most delicate and complex problems of modern industrial society. Industrial progress is impossible without cooperation of labors and harmonious relationships. Therefore, it is in the interest of all to create and maintain good relations between employees (labor) and employers (management).

Actors in the IR System

Employers: Employers possess certain rights with regard to labors. They have the right to hire and fire them. Management can also affect workers’ interests by exercising their right to relocate, close or merge the factory or to introduce technological changes.

Employees: Workers seek to improve the terms and conditions of their employment. They exchange views with management and voice their grievances. They also want to share decision making powers of management. Workers generally unite to form unions against the management and get support from these unions.

Government: The central and state government influences and regulates industrial relations through laws, rules, agreements, awards of court and the like. It also includes third parties and labor courts.

Objectives of IR

• Raise productivity in the organisation to curb the employee turnover and absenteeism.
• Avoid unnecessary interference of the government, as far as possible and practicable, in the matters of relationship between workers and management.
• Establish industrial democracy based on labour partnership in the sharing of profits and of managerial decisions.
• Socialise industrial activity by involving the government participation as an employer.
• Establish and foster sound relationship between workers and management by safeguarding their interests.
• Avoid industrial conflicts and strikes by developing mutuality among the interests of concerned parties.
• Keep, as far as possible, strikes, lockouts and gheraos at bay by enhancing the economic status of workers.

Importance of IR

Reduction in Industrial Disputes: Good industrial relations reduce the industrial disputes. Disputes are reflections of the failure of basic human urges or motivations to secure adequate satisfaction or expression which are fully cured by good industrial relations. Strikes, lockouts, go-slow tactics, gherao and grievances are some of the reflections of industrial unrest which do not spring up in an atmosphere of industrial peace. It helps to promote co-operation and increasing production.

Promote Industrial Democracy: Industrial democracy means the government mandated worker participation at various levels of the organisation with regard to decisions that affect workers. It is mainly the joint consultations, which prepare the way for industrial democracy and cement relationship between workers and management.

Scope :

▪︎Employee-Employer relations : The relationship that pertains between the business owner and the employees of a particular company is known as the employer-employee relationship. To maintain sound relations, the employer must treat the employees fairly and should value their efforts.

Also adopting the various human resource strategies like employee relations program, performance-based promotions and even making the productive employees the stakeholders of the company.

▪︎Group relation: The interactions and communication between the workers belonging to different workgroups are studied under group relations.

▪︎Labour relations: In an organization, the relationship shared by the managers and the workers is termed as labour relations. It includes their behaviour, thoughts, actions and perception against each other.

▪︎Public relations : It is also termed as community relations. The interaction and relationship of the organization (i.e., its owner, management and employees) with the society or external bodies is termed as public relations. For long-term existence in the business, every organization needs to maintain cordial public ties.

Factors affecting of IR

Industrial Relations deal with human behaviour and management of personnel in an organizational setup. The various factors that influence the relationship between the administration and the employees in an organization are as follows:

Individual Behavior: Every person has a different perception, background, skills, knowledge, experience and achievements which influences an individual’s behaviour. The employees, therefore, behave differently in different situations, thus impacting the work environment in the organization.

Organisational structure : The hierarchical structure creates more formal relationships among the employees belonging to different hierarchical levels in an organization. Also, the delegation and execution of decision-making power by the superior influences the industrial relations between the managers and the employees.

Psychological factors: An employee’s attitude and mentality towards the employer and the given task; and the employer’s psychology towards the workers can be positive or negative, which ultimately impacts the employee-employer relationship.

Leadership style: Every manager possesses certain leadership traits and different style to function even in a formal organization. Through his/her formal or informal ways of generating team spirit and motivating the employees, he/she impacts the organization’s industrial relations.

Economic and technical environment: To cope up with the changes in the economic conditions or technology, organizations need to restructure the task of the employees including their work duration, conditions and wages; which leads to a difference in their behaviour, attitude, adapting spirit, etc. towards the organization and its people.

Legal and political environment: The legal framework and political circumstances influence the organization and its industrial relations. It contributes to the framing of rules, rights, authority, powers, roles and responsibilities of all the parties of the organization.

IR update

The Industrial Relations Code, 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr. Santosh Kumar Gangwar, on November 28, 2019. It seeks to replace three labour laws: (i) the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, (ii) the Trade Unions Act, 1926, and (iii) the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946.

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Andhra pradesh state government decided to reopen the colleges from oct 15 th 2020,and the admission procedure of this academic year will be online based to all schools and colleges,the entrance exams will be conducted in september

Telangana state government decided to conduct online classes,the final exams will be conducted after high court orders,the cabinet decided to conduct online classes from 17 th aug 2020

Every company that wishes to fulfill their target on time, it needs a proper plan and sufficient workforce. Along with that it is also necessary that the that employees of the company are adaptable to the the changing environment in any business. For this any company requires a management consultant who prepares a clear blueprint for progress. The market for management consultant which is 15,733 crore Dollar at this time is estimated to to rise up to 18,624 in the next five years.

For a career in consultant management a bachelor degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance Marketing, Accounting and related fields is thought to be appropriate. Additionally the students have completed their MBA are preferred more by the companies. Some consultant firms even higher people from different streams and train them to be consultants. Some of the leading institutions where students can study are Indian institute of Management  Ahmedabad, Faculty of Management Studies New Delhi, Symbiosis Institute of International Business Pune.

At present management consultancy is one of those professions where one has lots of opportunities. Currently there are almost 12 industries which hire management consultants. Some of these industries are Financial services, Healthcare, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Media and Telecommunication, and Retail. In IT, HR and Finance related MNC management consultants are outsourced. Some of the leading job profiles as management consultants are Strategy Consultant, Operation consultant Financial Advisory consultant HR consultant, Social Media Consultant, Public Relations consultant, IT consultant and Legal consultant. The salary packages are also very attractive. In the beginning a professional can earn 5 to 8 lakh rupees per annum easily. After a few years one can get 10 to 15 lacs per annum. And one gains more experience in this field, the salary increases.