Jaipur: Experts form Rajasthan and Countries like South Korea, Turkey, Indonesia and Thailand express their views at a seminar on "IT applications and management" organized in a private university on the outskirts of Jaipur. They suggested focusing on a "People-centric approach" in management education.

It was highlighted that the management education has the enormous potential in addressing the socio-economic needs and real life problems of the rural society in Rajasthan.

Participants realized that the conventional expansion of management education emphasized on trade and business priorities of the organized corporate sector, ignoring the socio-economic realities of large sections of population.

Former Rajasthan Chief Secretary M.L. Mehta, Pratham Rajasthan managing trustee K.B. Kothari, Prof. D.K. Banwet of Indian Institute of Technology addressed the seminar among others.

They focused on the need to identify and choose rural and urban organizations around which management research, education and training in collaboration with other academic disciplines like Sociology, Psychology, Political science, Economics and technical fields might be initiated.

Mr. Kothari highlighted that improved and innovative management practices could enhance the delivery of inputs like capacity building, credit and services, people's empowerment and community participation.