In a few days from now, precisely on January 04, 2011, our batch will be completing an year in the service of this great Institution. What time could be more opportune to revisit the place where it all started: Syndicate Institute of Bank Management, Manipal, Karnataka. While the adventures and escapades have been accounted for in an earlier post: ONCE UPON A TIME IN MANIPAL!!!, it is time that tributes be showered upon the Alma mater of banking for the Syndians! The SyndicateBank website provides the following overview of SIBM:
Syndicate Institute of Bank Management (SIBM), located at Manipal, in the backdrop of luxuriant Western Ghats, is the apex training institution of SyndicateBank for honing skills in banking and management for the bank's executives and senior personnel. The Institute was set up in November 1987. The institute has a sprawling campus of 15 acres, offering a panoramic view of the green valley on the east and Arabian Sea in the west. The fully residential Institute, with all modern infrastructure expected in an Institution of this nature, like well-equipped classrooms, library, computer laboratory, conference hall and auditorium, also offers a variety of recreation facilities, including a modern gymnasium, 5-hole golf course, mini-cricket ground, volleyball courts, indoor games, jogging track and so on. Shady fruit bearing trees, medicinal plants, rose garden and other recreational facilities are provided to rejuvenate the body and mind. The hostel has 65 fully air-conditioned and tastefully furnished rooms.
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| PRESENT AND FUTURE TOGETHER..... |
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| VITHALA SIR GIVES INSTRUCTIONS ON THE EVE OF D-DAY. WHO'S INTERESTED? |
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| JUST BEFORE THE FIRST STEP |
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| ATTENTIVE THEY ARE! ICE-BREAKING IN PROGRESS. |
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| WAITING FOR THEIR TURN. INSIDE AUDI BEING HANDED OVER THE RELIEVING AND MARCHING ORDERS. |
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| STATE OF THE ART. A SESSION IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.... |
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| REFRESHMENT AREA. CAUGHT YOU TEA-HANDED, AFTER WE HAD OURS! |
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| THE TRICOLOUR. VIEW OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE FROM INSIDE SIBM. |
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| LADIES AND THE GENTLEMEN! |
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| THE GANG OF GUYS! | | | |
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| THE HEAVENLY ABODE. IT TRULY IS! |
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| THE FOOD FACTORY! YUMMY FOOD, MATCHLESS SERVICE. |
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| THE JOYRIDE CONCLUDES. THIS AUTO HAS BEEN FINANCED BY SYNDICATE BANK, WHICH WAS REASON ENOUGH FOR US TO HOP ON AND SAY CHEESE! OF COURSE, THE LADIES CRIED LATER ON, AS THIS WAS THEIR LAST HURRAH AT SIBM! |
THE SYNDIAN FOOTNOTE
I consider myself absolutely privileged, lucky, fortunate and what not, to have got an opportunity to be inducted into the Syndicate Family at the apex training centre. The experience is etched in the memories of all of us and remains fresh as if it was just yesterday that each one of us became a part of the Syndicate syndicate!
A word of gratitude to the Team SIBM, the parts of which works as a synchronized whole to ensure optimization of returns that a trainee gets from his/ her stay at the campus. Administration, Faculty Members, Support-staff: Thank You!!!
During the course of serving this great Institution, there may come a few opportunities to be a part of training programmes at different TCs, and may be SIBM again. But nothing can match the charm of induction training. Would want to come back again, and again and again......
THE SYNDIAN wishes all the readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011. May our Institution continue to make GIANT strides in Nation's service with the combined PIGMY efforts of ours! May we all stay faithful and friendly! May hope, health and happiness prevail!
Jai Hind! Jai Synd!
