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CII MBA placement initiative Ambar held in Mumbai
MUMBAI: The first edition of CII’s Ambar – After MBA Recruiting – a two day event was held at IIT- Powai Campus on 14 February. The event brought together the industries and institutes located in the western region of India.
During the course of the event, over 160 students across various colleges and B-Schools participated in the event. The event was organized primarily to guide the colleges and get their students placed in reputed companies and simultaneously help the companies to source top quality students to work in their respective organization.
Addressing the gathering IIT Mumbai director professor Ashok Misra said, ” Today large number of students in India aspire for high quality education. However, in India we face the unique problem of high quality faculty, an issue we need to address as a country. He mentioned that foreign universities are taking advantage of the above issue and are enticing the Indian students and faculty.
Misra advised students that as future professionals, they should be committed to their job and refrain from changing their jobs frequently for remuneration. He asked the students to work on personal vision and ensure that it matches with their company’s vision and in turn with the country’s vision.
IAS Commissioner, director of Employment in Mumbai Jayashree Mukherjee in her address said, ” Studies have revealed that the rate of job creation in our country is low and this has been further hampered due to mechanization which has been taking place in the industries.”
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd senior VP Nandan Maluste gave an overview of various opportunities which are existing in the sector mentioning that on the whole host of job opportunities are being created in Retail & Insurance Companies. He advised students that its is very important for them to understand the product before they ‘sell’ it.
During the event, marketing students got a chance to interact with prominent corporates such as Abid Ali from TCS, P.V. Krishna, Head of Products from Wartsila India Ltd, Chinar Desphande, CIO of Pantaloon Retail India Ltd. They gave them insights on the career options available in various sectors of the industry like manufacturing, finance, retail etc.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
