Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (KM)
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Mangalore, Feb 18: Dreaming big, working hard and going ahead with invincible confidence may help MCA students to change things and thereby the fate of Mangalore in a larger perspective, suggested Raghunath Pai, group project manager of city's Infosys.

He was delivering the inaugural address at Smart Tech 2008, a week-long guest lecture series organized by the department of computer application of Srinivas Institute of Management Studies here on Monday February 18.

Stressing the need to realize opportunities that are unearthed owing to the changing scenario and the changing attitude of the other part of the world towards India, Pai opined that MCA students should learn to deliver goods with effective soft skills like communication so as to keep an edge over colleagues and fulfill the expectation of global clients.

He also suggested the graduates to tune their mindsets to understand business, users' psychology, besides having a strong database to make use of opportunities arising due to globalization that has made the world a smaller place.

D H Manjaiah, reader of the department of computer sciences and guest of honour for the day also spoke on the occasion. P S Aithal, principal of the college welcomed the gathering.

Raghavendra Rao, vice-president of A Shama Rao Foundation, Jeevan Pinto, MCA coordinator, Shashikala Rao, secretarty of A Shama Rao Foundation and students of the institution were present on the occasion.