IIMs to start 1-year course for professionals

It is time for top executives from around the globe to return to top business schools. Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have decided to open their doors for working professionals, having five-year professional experience, for a year-long diploma course especially carved for them.

Published on: Jan 13, 2006, 11:29:00 IST

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It is time for top executives from around the globe to return to top business schools. Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have decided to open their doors for working professionals, having five-year professional experience, for a year-long diploma course especially carved for them.

IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad will start the course for professionals from this academic year. While IIM Ahmedabad will start admission from April-May this year, the course in IIM Calcutta will start from December 2006.

For the first time IIMs are starting a long-term diploma course for working professionals. “The course will bring working professionals at par with IIM graduates when it comes to educational skills.

The professionals will get an opportunity to do internship in some top companies of the world,” an official said. IIM Calcutta director Shehkar Chaudhari said that the course is to build leadership qualities in professionals and provide a platform for interaction between Indian and foreign managers.

“The course is for mid-career managers and is to equip them to take up challenging roles in global organisations,” he said. The course is part of a major plan of IIM Calcutta and IIM A for expansion to attract foreign students and generate revenue. IIM Calcutta has constructing a separate block for housing the 120 students they plan to take.

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Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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