India’s seventh IIM starts on Friday

The first academic session of the country’s seventh IIM, the Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (RGIIM) in Shillong, will begin on Friday.

Meghalaya chief minister Donkupar Roy will inaugurate the first batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management in the presence of Chairman, Board of Governors, RGIIM, Prof R N Dutta, Chairman Headstrong Inc USA and founder member of HCL Arjun Malhotra and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister T K Nair, the institute’s Director Prof Ashoke K Dutta said.

Dutta said the institute will commence its first academic session in the Mayurbhanj Complex in Nongthymmai, which previously housed the North Eastern Hill University. Work will soon commence on a 120 acre site for the permanent campus.

The Institute offers the Post-Graduate Programme in Managment [PGP], which is a two-year full time residential programme for graduate students from all disciplines wanting to choose a career in management.

The Institute envisages for its flagship programme, namely, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM), an annual student intake capacity of 60 in the first year. This is planned to be increased to 120 in the third year and 180 in the sixth year.

The institute will conduct courses with Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management, fellowship programme in management, management development programmes, tourism and hospitality management, tele-services and telemedicine, information systems and technology and subjects of local relevance such as tourism, horticulture and hydel power.

Courtesy :- Economic Times

IIM Calcutta restructures PGP curriculum

The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) has restructured the post graduate programme (PGP) curriculum by merging environment, sociology and regional development into one.

Dean, programme initiative, IIM-C, Saibal Chattopadhyay said that this was a major restructuring of the PGP curriculum done at the institute in recent times.

He said that all faculty members of the erstwhile three groups and the Centre for Development and Environment Policy would become members of the newly formed group, public policy and management. Manish Thakur would be the coordinator of the new group.

The restructured curriculum would be made effective from the current academic session.

The new group had been made multi-disciplinary and would dwell on issues like challenges of policy innovation, governance for public service delivery, relationship between government and industry among others.

 Courtesy :- Economic Times