Wholesome development and that of a finishing school

Problems and difficulties are opportunities for the strong willed, creative, solution centric, entrepreneurial and the serving oriented and excellence driven.
Cost reduction, quality, productivity and excellence are outcomes effected by purpose driven people with unflinching integrity, unconditional dedication and the will to do good for the society.
This is what SCMLD strives to inculcate, embed, re-engineer and change the mental and intellectual architecture of its students so that they move from being ordinary to extraordinary.
We Educate, Enlighten, Embolden, Empower and Inspire through intellectual and experiential processes to help participant students realise, discover and develop as extraordinary performers. SCMLDians are to be earthy and execution focussed.
Most of the SCMLD alumni are receiving rewards for their extra ordinary performances at work and are climbing fast on the ladders of success.
Naturally, SCMLD practices zero tolerance of dishonesty, indiscipline, casualness, postponements, grumbling, accusations and excuses. SCMLD respects discipline, objectivity, rational and scientific approaches, sense of responsibility and productive utilisation of time and resources. SCMLD believes that luck favours the brave and the hard working. Work is the manifestation of who one is. At SCMLD one has to work.
We are a leadership moulding development centre, not a placement agency. We strive to groom willing youngsters for a disciplined and purposeful life. At the core is our philosophy of how ‘Dharma can be practised in Karma’. Through a series of crucibles for experiencing entrepreneurial, personal and interpersonal challenges, students are to internalize and practice team work, human and community sensitivity, sense of responsibility, commitment and develop problem solving skills based on facts, truth and realities. Assumptions, presumptions, illusions, delusions, ego etc. will get challenged at SCMLD, everyday.

Applicants are requested to read carefully the whole prospectus, the admission application form and website www.scmld.org to understand the essence of SCMLD. We wish students choose SCMLD. Not the other way round as the SCMLD journey is tough and the processes unique as compared to usual college campuses. Life at SCMLD is very demanding but rewarding for a lifetime. Therefore SCMLD does not advertise to attract or entice but only to inform. Please read all the pages of this prospectus to know more about a unique institution in the making aimed at learning to happen rather than teaching for paper qualifications.
Even if one has filled up the application form and admission has been offered one has time up to 14th May 2013 to decide finally whether to join or not join SCMLD.

Important note for Parents and Aspirants

Please read the entire prospectus before you arrive at a decision about joining SCMLD. Our endeavour is to sculpt leaders of tomorrow out of our students of today. This is not an easy task. The grinding will generate sparks, heat, dust, noise and pains. Habit, patterns and conditioning must be altered and paradigm shift has to be effected. Our vision is to bring exemplary action leaders out of the students who join SCMLD wanting to be so. However, the institute cannot accomplish this tall order that we have envisioned for ourselves in our credo, mission and vision, without your support.
Ours is a transparent and unique institute and we are building it brick by brick, to emerge respectful and of value to all our stakeholders - students, parents, staff, faculty, corporate, business, industry, community and the country. SCMLD belongs to all of them and more particularly to my former students from SCMHRD, the Trustees and the Board of Governance and our faculty and employees, who all have been our committed supporters and partners right from the beginning.
While legally SCMLD is under the parentage of the Sadhana Educational and Empowerment Foundation (a not for profit Public Trust and Society), emotionally and morally you all are the owners of this institute.
To create extraordinary leaders, existing assumptions, presumptions, beliefs, habits, attitudes etc. will be challenged by our processes and systems. Pleasure addiction and feelings driven judgmental approaches will have to give way to ‘what is right’. ‘Feeling good’ syndrome will affect ‘doing right’ decisions. Here comes your willing acceptance and ownership of the processes at SCMLD.
SCMLD works with no personal motives. Any surplus generated by the institute, after paying all its employees who work day and night for its purpose, goes into infrastructure and process development and improvement. Everything at SCMLD is an open book.
SCMLD does not operate from fear of competition. It competes with itself to make the students values driven and competent. There is no substitute for hard work. SCMLD is for those who do not see money and self interest as the final purpose and ambition of life. Money and profit should only be a means to spread happiness, peace, prosperity and harmony in our world. Wealth creation is important (not to accumulate and hoard it for self alone), so as to distribute it for a respectable and happy life for all people. Profit must be made but Seva and Samarpan must be the drive behind it. A nation can make progress only through the progress and progressive acts of her citizens. This is what SCMLD aspires to enable through bringing out fine and responsible business leaders. We emphasize on purpose and not so much on “success”. Wants define success. Needs define purpose. Spreading peace, harmony, happiness, health, well being, and sharing and caring relationships define profit, not currency notes or hypothetical indices of stock exchanges. Therefore, SCMLD is looking for students with conviction and passion who can identify with its purpose. The journey is tough and so we want the students to come prepared and their parents to stand by us. Also of our 120 students, we want at least 10 to emerge as entrepreneurial leaders, every year. If they are active learners we shall provide them all the support possible to start their units/establishments provided they come forward for the same. So is the case with those students wishing to develop their existing family businesses. Customers should seek them for the quality of their products and services and not because of the enticing and fraudulent advertisements. SCMLD is an example of this approach. Every aspect of this institute is detailed in the prospectus so that students come to us fully aware, making an informed choice. Majority of our students will be employment seekers. We want them to be Executive Leaders not mere employees seeking easy life by shortcuts. Companies should come seeking them. Enlightened citizens of action and entrepreneurs both governed by values, ethics, Seva and Samarpan are the backbone of the country. Together, they can only take the country to prosperity.
The talkers and critics cannot. They can only create chaos and add to the high decibel noise pollution. Therefore, we do not seek large numbers but few applicants to join us in this journey. We aspire to make an institution that is more than a few buildings and its facades. Elements of frugality and simplicity will govern all our initiatives.
Students, however, must note that SCMLD is not a resort for passing time. SCMLD is, also, not a placement agency as has been iterated earlier. We will groom you and fulfil all the promises made in this prospectus but placement will depend on your efforts and how much you make of our offerings. SCMLD is a learning centre, which facilitates students to learn and evolve. If one learns and evolves, placement will come as a natural outcome. If you are confident of partaking in our journey, we welcome you to SCMLD. But if you believe that once you pay the fee, it’s the duty of SCMLD to find a job with a salary you dream of, you will only be frustrated at SCMLD. You have to work very hard and get it. It is not easy. Please note that it is not your physical being employers seek to recruit. They seek your knowledge, skills, attitude, talent, effort, will, commitment and integrity etc. in the form of potential to deliver work and if convinced, they recruit. Please appreciate that there is no competition in this space. Ordinary people make the crowd, not the exceptional ones. Competition and jostling are in the crowd.
Welcome if you are ready for such a learning adventure.