Centre for Research Studies

Tourism has diverse facets like adventure tourism, Nature Tourism, Wildlife Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Spiritual Tourism, Medical Tourism and the like. One such facet in the modern age of 21 st century is Alumni Tourism. Not only in private educational institutions but in government educational institutions too it has nearly become mandatory to have an Alumni Association and an annual reunion. These reunions have become regular feature of an educational institution. As it is a means of publicity too for the educational institutions-particularly private educational institutions so they have started paying more attention to Alumni activities like annual reunions as it provides an opportunity to showcase their progress over the years. They have identified several landmarks to mark the celebrations like Silver Jubilee of the existence of an institution. This paper will try to find out the significance of Alumni Institutions and their impact by comparing the Alumni Association of a residential institution with the Alumni Association of Management school– both government as well as privately owned institutions. Alumni tourism has a special significance in a residential school as the students spend a fairly long and formative period of their lives with their class fellow and teachers. In this paper we will specifically talk about the Alumni Association of Sainik School Chittorgarh that was set up in 1961 with a view to provide quality public school education to the middle and lower sections of the society so as to grow and develop military leadership that was confined till then to the elite sections of society only. So, in order to provide the benefits of public school education based on the system of Harrow and Eton to the middle and lower sections of society; seven such residential educational institutions were set up in different states of India. Rajasthan was the fortunate state to be among them when one such school was set up in Chittorgarh. However, the Alumni Institution of Sainik School came into existence only after 15 years of its existence when its students started carving place for themselves in the society. The attachment of a boy or a girl towards an educational institution in a residential school is much stronger than in a day school due to special bonding of emotional relationship that is developed over the period of seven years that they spend in the school. In this school a student is admitted in Class VI and he passes out in Class XII which implies that he spends nearly seven years of his life which is

Hughes Communications India Ltd. (HCIL) was the leading Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) based satellite communication products and services provider in India. While talking to the press, Mr. Partho Banerjee, the President & Managing Director (PMD) of HCIL, had said that he was proud that HCIL was the flag bearer of the Indian VSAT industry. He had expressed his desire to maintain this lead in the future. While HCIL had a growth rate of 18.4% in the Financial Year 2011-12 over the previous Financial Year 2010-11, he had learnt from the media that the competition had aggressive growth plans of 40% per annum. The competition was trying to catch up with HCIL and even surpass it in the near future. For HCIL to maintain its leading position, it had to achieve a higher growth rate vis-à-vis its competition.