The Department of Management had organized online webinar for students on the topic “Individual Social Responsibility in Covid – 19 World” on 27th June 2020 from 03.00 pm to 04.00 pm through zoom app. The objective of this webinar is to provide an insight to youth for re-inviting the roles and responsibilities of an individual in pandemic situation.

The webinar aims to discuss the various challenges one has to face in the COVID – 19 World. This webinar is organised to give insights for youth to rethink the roles and responsibilities in tackling Covid virus. The Resource Person for the day was Mrs. Srilatha KS, Human Resource, ABB Global Industries & Services Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru. The session was inaugurated by Rev. Dr. Augustine George, Principal, Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru. Prof.C.Surendranath Reddy, Head, department of Management welcomed the gathering.

Resource Person Mrs.Srilatha K S addressed the gatherings with gratitude for inviting her to interact with students. Madam emphasized on coping up with any situation by continuously skilling, reskilling and upskilling in changing environment. Reinventing the roles and responsibilities helps to adapt quickly to changing environment. Few realistic examples were shared which helped every participant to think how can they contribution to the society in this pandemic situation. Covid pandemic situation can only be solved only with teamwork, so individuals should join with government for eradication or slowing down infection. Madam shared how ABB global industries and services contributed to CSR and Covid situation.

A total of 438 students registered for the webinar through the registration link and out of that 231 students had participated in the webinar in effective manner. Students have shown lot of interest in this webinar based on the information shared by the resource person. The participants were very interactive and towards the end of the session there was Q & A session followed by feedback by the participants.

Students wear able to reinvent their roles and responsibilities to overcome stress, anxiety and fear in post pandemic situation. The participants found this as learning experience as they were able to apply their minds to find possible ways to serve their neighborhoods.