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IIM-L plans to set up Business School in Kathmandu

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By
Mar 19, 2018 07:43 PM IST

This is not the first time that IIM-L is talking about setting up campus abroad. In the past, then IIM-L director Devi Singh had planned to establish B-schools in Mauritius, Malasiya and Canada but it never materialised.

The Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow (IIM-L) plans to set up a business school in Kathmandu, announced institute director Ajit Prasad on Saturday.

IIM Lucknow’s 32nd convocation at IIM campus in Lucknow on Saturday.(Dheeraj Dhawan/Hindustan Times)
IIM Lucknow’s 32nd convocation at IIM campus in Lucknow on Saturday.(Dheeraj Dhawan/Hindustan Times)

Speaking at the 32nd convocation of IIM-L, Prasad said, “We are in talks with the ministry of external affairs and looking for some kind of funding to establish our business school in Kathmandu.”

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He also mentioned about an ‘Executive Education Programme’ to be launched by the institute in Middle East countries like Dubai.

This is not the first time that IIM-L is talking about setting up campus abroad. In the past, then IIM-L director Devi Singh had planned to establish B-schools in Mauritius, Malasiya and Canada but it never materialised.

Prasad further announced that from next session, IIM-L will have courses focusing on ethics and human values, like ‘Human Values and Responsible Citizenship’, in the post-graduate programme curriculum. He said IIM-L would become the country’s first B-School to start such a course.

Prasad added that IIM-L would now on focus on four things: research, teaching, consulting and training.

He also highlighted the institute’s initiative to include research-based courses like ‘behavioral economics’, contemporary management courses like ‘experiential learning’ and ‘framing identities and roles through exploration’, which are not regular text-book classroom courses.

Prasad also spoke about the joint training programme of IIM-L and World Bank on the bank’s procurement process, which attracted participants not only from India, but from Myanmar and Afghanistan.

Prasad told students: “Don’t think of the past, remember nothing happens by chance. Find your destiny.” Quoting Winston Churchill, he urged graduating students to “Go create history!”

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