Dr Subir Gokarn, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, will inaugurate the Chennai region's Business Line Club for this academic year on Wednesday, at SRM University. Dr Gokarn will deliver the inaugural lecture on ‘The future of organisations – environmental drivers and strategic responses' to an audience comprising 4,000 students of the SRM University.

Business Line Club acts as an interface between industry and academic institutions to create awareness in the latter about current practices in industry. Launched in 2004, the Business Line Club annually has 150 institutions and 25,000 student members who enrol for the programme.

For the current academic year 2011-12, Central Bank of India is the presenting sponsor for the Business Line Club activities.

Also present at the inaugural event will be Mr N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu , Mr Rajiv Kishore Dubey, Executive Director, Central Bank, Dr T.R. Pachamuthu, Chancellor, SRM University, Dr M. Ponnavaikko, Vice-Chancellor, Dr P. Thangarajau, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Dr N. Sethuraman, Registrar.

Last year, the inaugural programme for Business Line Club was held at the B.S. Abdur Rahman University where Mr Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice-Chairman, Cognizant was the chief guest.

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