10. Back in Bangalore / Alliance Business School 2006

10.1 I never expected that I will shift from Manipal seeking another employment, because I was doing very well in my job of teaching and academic administration.  In fact, we also purchased two flats in Manipal from Premier Builders, Udupi.  Sravanthi completed her School studies of Xth in 2001 and XIIth Standard from Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavara by 2003 Little Rock Indian School - Wikipedia.  She joined BE in Bio Medical Engineering and was to pass out by 2007.  Ganga was also working with Manipal Informatics Ltd., a BPO, as a Team Leader / Captain.  She was a member of Manipal Mahila Samaj and was a President in 2003.  

10.2 Similarly, I was an active Lions Club Member / Director / Treasurer / Secretary in the ccompany of elite local Konkani / Tulu friends like Dr Ganesh Pai, Dr Rajagopal Shenoy, Mr Ramesh Kini, Vincent Pinto, Benjamin Kunder, Santhosh, Sandeep, Shashi Ranjan, Dr Pratap Kumar and many others.  We were engaging in Blood Donation camps, Eye check-up camps, donation of artificial limbs, Tree Planting, visiting Orphanages, Old Age Homes, etc as part of Social Work as also in picnics, cultural programs and Weekly meetings.  For some inexplicable reasons, a big bunch of faculty members quit TAPMI during 2006.

10.3 I got two Offers to join viz., ICFAI and Alliance Business School (ABS) in Bangalore Alliance University - Wikipedia and I chose the second.  In 2003, Dr KS Srinivasa Rao, a PhD in Statistics from Andhra University, Vizag AP, joined TAPMI as Associate Professor, but after one and half years moved out to take up as Director of KLE Institute of Management in Belgaum.  He worked there for a year up to 2006.  He was offered the position of a Professor cum Associate Dean at ABS, Bangalore, while I was given as Professor cum Registrar.  Both joined together and were engaged in improving the quality of academics of the PGDM Program of ABS. We both have also beena engaged in writing Research Papers and Publishing / Presentation at National and International Conferences, the topics being Management Education, Banking, Financial Services, Entrepreneurship, etc.  

10.4 ABS is an extension of Alliance Business Academy founded by Prof Sudhir Angur, who is an alumnus of IIT-Mumbai and IIM-Ahmedabad, with good corporate and academic experience.  His elder brother Dr Madhukar Angur is an alumnus of NIT-Karnataka (Suratkal) and IIM-Ahmedabad with a PhD in Marketing from USA.  He was a Professor in the US wanting to expand ABA and hence started ABS.  Both brothers and other family members came together to establish Alliance University in Anekal in a huge campus of 40 acres with modern amenities, hostels, and offering programs in Management, Engineering and Law. ABS was offering a 2 year PGDM, week-end PGDM for working professionals and another program in Singapore.  Course on Commercial Banking 2009  Priority Sector Advances in Indian Banking  Women Entrepreneurs Networking Paper 2008

10.5 Senior Professors with high academic credentials and corporate experience were engaged as Faculty.  Myself and Dr KS S Rao worked hard to give our best, seen through the transition from BTM in Bangalore to Anekal Campus but quit our jobs by mid-2009. We had scholarly faculty members in Dr GR Narayana, Prof Venkatesh, Dr Kishan Rao, Dr Baskaran, Dr Catherine, Dr Kavitha Chavali, Prof Ray Titus, Dr DNS Kumar, Dr P Janakiramudu, Dr Subrat Sahu and others in our team handling different courses in an efficient manner.  A Research Journal was also published then.

10.6 In mid-2007, Ganga and Sravanthi also left Manipal and joined me in BTM, Bangalore and we stayed in the accommodation provided by ABS.  Sravanthi joined MBA program in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore offered by Marshall University, USA and completed with Marketing specialisation.  Ganga took up as Vice Principal at St Mira's High School, Dollar Colony, BTM 1st Stage, very close to our residence and ABS Bangalore.  Life was going smooth, but nothing is in our control.   

10.7 Dr Rao came in contact with an agency 24x7 in Ulsoor, Bangalore offering Online teaching of 2-Year PGDM Courses for a Delhi based and reputed Institution.  He took up Quantitative Methods course and asked me to teach Business Laws Course, which I was already teaching at Alliance.  We used to develop contents for sessions of one hour duration, through PPTs and hand over to the Agency on Friday which will be uploaded in their server ready for teaching on Sundays.  It was a very exciting experience.

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