A month-long intensive coaching for Assam Civil Service Examination (Mains) as well as the new batches of vocational courses (125 students joined different courses in software, hardware, MOM and RTV) were inaugurated at DBI on 5th June at 9 am in Rong-ghar, the institute’s amphitheatre. Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil inaugurated the coaching programme and the vocational courses and said that each person should try to become the best performer, no matter in which field he or she works. It may be mentioned that DBI was requested by the Assam Minority Development Board for a month-long intensive coaching of ACS (Mains). Ms Ritwika Kalita, ACS, IGP and Ms Kalyanee Talukdar, Director in Charge of Assam Minority Development Board, addressed the students with inspirational notes. Fr. V. M. Thomas stressed on the need for intensive coaching and said that our students have the potential to be successful in their effort, and DBI is always ready to support youngsters to achieve their goals. Altogether twenty students of different minority communities across Assam were enrolled in the ACS (Mains) coaching at DBI after clearing the Preliminary round of ACS.

The Graduation Day for DCA, Tally, MCSE, DESE and Spoken English courses was held on June 28 at 4 pm in the amphitheatre of DBI. The Chief Guest of the function was Dr. Abraham Joseph, an eminent physician in Mayo clinic in USA. At the end of the function Fr. V. M. Thomas announced the good news that Dr. Abraham had contributed Rs. 2 lakh to DBYES, out of which Rs. 1 lakh will be spent for the light system in the amphitheatre. Tally student Lokho Athisu, DESE student Govind Mushahary, DCA student Magdalene, Spoken English student Charuna Basumatary and MCSE student Chandan thanked their respective faculties and expressed their thanks and appreciation for the training received at DBI. A chorus was presented by DCA students, while a hilarious skit was presented by the Spoken English students. The concluding speech and vote of thanks was delivered by Fr. Francis Fernandez.

The group of officers from Department of Finance (taxation), Govt. of Assam, who participated in the MDP on Change Management and Motivation at DBI from July 31-Aug 2, 2008. Altogether 38 officers, including Jt. Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner and Superintendent of Taxes from Tezpur, Tinsukia, Sivasagar, Guwahati, Jorhat, Nagaon, North Lakhimpur, Silchar, Barpeta, Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Naharkatia, Morigaon and Dibrugarh have attended the programme. The MDP was conducted by Prof. P. Basak, Chief Scientific Advisor, International Institute of Disaster Management, Pune, Fr. V. M. Thomas and Dr. George Palamattam.