Media Release
Mangalore, Feb 5: Allen C. A. Pereira, Chairman & Managing Director, Bank of Maharastra visited the AIMIT campus of St Aloysius College, Mangalore on Friday 5th Feb. 2010 at 11 am
He was welcomed by Fr Denzil Lobo SJ, the Director of AIMIT and was escorted to the Board Room. Fr Denzil gave a brief introduction to the recent developments at St Aloysius College, and especially the Management & IT School at Beeri Kotekar. Mr Pereira appreciated the infra-structure created and congratulated the management for the bold step. Mr Pereira is an alumnus of St Aloysius College and belong to the 1970 degree batch.
Pereira was shown around the campus. He also visited the AUDIO-VISUAL ROOM presented by Max Rasquinha, and then he gave a talk to the MBA students gathered in the AIMIT Hall. Students were in rapt attention when Mr Pereira spoke about the growth of the banking sector in India and the recent developments in the West which led to recession due to the failure of financial Institutions in US. He mentioned that the Public sector banks have been doing well and that there is a lot of scope for young MBA graduates to join the Banking sector and come with innovative ideas to improve the working of public sector banks. He also said that he would send his team from the Bank of Maharastra to select very good MBA graduates from AIMIT.
Pereira was accompanied by K. Vairamani, Deputy GM from Bangalore and M. D. Bhat, Branch manager, Mangalore.
Earlier during the day, Pereira he was the Chief Guest for the inaugural of SPINOUT, the Management Fest conducted by the BBM Dept of St Aloysius College, Mangalore.