MAT test scheduled in December
Dimapur, October 17 (MExN): All India Management Association’s Centre for Management Services (AIMA-CMS) is the specialised division undertaking testing and other management services. The Management Aptitude Test (MAT) has been in operation since 1988. Hundreds of B-Schools and several lakhs of candidates have availed the services under MAT. MAT is administered under systems and procedures established as per ISO 9001: 2000 Quality Certification. The next MAT paper based test is scheduled on 4 December 2011 and the Computer Based Test on 10 December 2011.
Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is one of the Ministry of HRD approved national level tests for MBA and allied programmes in the country. Compared to other national level tests, MAT is accepted by hundreds of B-Schools in the country as a screening test for admission to their
Post Graduate Programmes in Management. MAT systems and procedures are time tested and trusted by hundreds of Institutes and several lakhs of candidates. The pattern of the test has been designed to assess the aptitude or the potential of the candidates to undergo management programmes and become effective and efficient managers thereafter. The test broadly has five segments. These are on Language Comprehension, Mathematical Skills, Data Analysis & Sufficiency, Intelligence & Critical Reasoning and Indian & Global Environment. The test is of two and a half hours duration.
MAT is administered four times in an academic cycle. It is on the first Sundays of September, December, February and May; which facilitate admission to the forthcoming academic session. For more details log on to www.aima-ind.org
Hindi teacher seniority list
Kohima, October 17 (MExN): The Directorate of School Education uniformed all government Hindi graduate teachers to submit the necessary documents to Hindi section or before November 30 to update the seniority list. The documents included; appointment order, latest extension order (if adhoc), regularization order, order of granting graduate scale, admit card and marksheet (graduate) and birth certificate recorded in the service book. This was state in a release issued by school education director N. Khevito Sema.
World Food Day observed at Dimapur
Dimapur, October 17 (MExN): To commemorate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in 1945, World Food Day was organised at District Agriculture Office, Dimapur with the theme: “Food Prices- From Crisis to Stability”, to heighten public awareness of the plight of the hungry and malnourished and to encourage people to take action against hunger.
The programme was chaired by S.K. Khemprai, SDAO and invocation prayer by Rongsenmenla, HA. Keynote address was delivered by Ahovi Sema, DAO & PD-ATMA. He spoke meticulously on the causes of food swings, upswings in particular which represent a major threat to food security where the poor are the hardest hit. Rapid price swings make that calculation much more difficult. Farmers can easily end up producing too much or too little. In stable markets, they can make a living and volatile ones can ruin them while also generally discouraging much needed investment in agriculture, informed a press note.
The note stated that responding to such price volatility includes two measures, one aiming to reduce price swings through specific interventions while other seeks to mitigate the negative effects of price swings. He encouraged everyone to look seriously at what causes swings in food prices and do what needs to be done to reduce their impact on the weakest members of the society.
Wapang Lemtur, Dy. Director of Sericulture, appraised the gathering about the causes of food shortage in our state and Dimapur district in particular. These causes were natural like bamboo flowering, floods, droughts, etc and man-influenced such as illegal hoarding by some of the traders, middle men, etc. He encouraged all the staffs of the Agri. and allied departments to once again dedicate and work towards attaining this goal of meeting the food needs of our people, it added.
