LPU addl director gets two ASMA awards

Our Correspondent
Phagwara, September 30

Additional Director, Lovely Professional University (LPU), Aman Mittal, has recently been honoured with top-two ASMA (Adoption of Social Media in Academia) Awards in Mumbai. Mittal has been honoured for being the top marketer in the education sector, and for bringing the largest number of international students to the country for higher education.

Supported by AICTE and ASSOCHAM; ASMA is a research initiative. It empowers academic institutes to optimise the usage of social media tools in achieving multiple objectives of institution building.

This occasion was India’s biggest conclave on ‘Digital Transformation of Academia’—the 3rd ASMA Convention and Awards 2019—for honouring and recognising trendsetters in education.

Chairman All India Council of Technical Education, Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe; Co-Chairman, ASSOCHAM, National Council on Education; President Association of Indian Universities; Directors of IIMs; High Commissioners; Ambassadors; and, a recognisable number of founders, Vice-Chancellors, Directors of India’ s top social and academic Institutions were distinguished speakers.

Mittal is a devoted professional with MBA from University of Southampton, the United Kingdom.

Thanking Former High Commissioner of India to Canada and Former Ambassador of India to South Korea, Vishnu Prakash, Mittal dedicated the awards to his passionate team. Also being the panellist at the largest confluence of education stalwarts, Mittal commented that “sharing knowledge with the senior academic fraternity at ASMA gathering is an ever-cherishing and remarkable experience”.

The top panellists from all across the country also discussed leveraging technology to strengthen the alumni network to re-invent the institutions.