Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad director Bakul Dholakia on Friday said it could not "increase seats at this juncture as its plate is full".
The BJP went on to add that India actually required 'world-class ministers'.
In a bid to provide functional and financial autonomy to prestigious institutions of higher learning, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a modified block grant scheme for funding institutions like IITs and IIMs.\n\n
The Pay Review Committee, headed by Prof Goverdhan Mehta, set up for faculty members of central technical institutes like IITs and IIMs had submitted its report to the HRD ministry in February this year.
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HSBC and Tata group were among the top companies who hired the first batch of IIM-Rohtak graduates.
Relenting on its rigid stance, the government on Wednesday gave its nod to Indian Institutes of Management to go global after amending their Memoranda of Associations and in a quid pro quo they decided to enhance intake of students, a condition set b
'When manufacturing or even services cannot generate the kind of employment they are looking for, they prefer to be unemployed rather than under-employed.'
One-Year postgraduate programme in Public Management and Policy from IIM Ahmedabad.
The IIMs will have to reinvent themselves considerably if they are to compete with top B-schools internationally - both in terms of their faculty as well as their curriculum.
After supplying Micro Electrical Mechanical System-based (MEMS-based) Inertial Navigation System to the Navy and the Airforce, Whirlybird Electronics, the co-incubated company of Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), is looking for markets in the automation and automobile industry.
The pass-outs of the country's premier business schools like the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) can now be hired at much lower packages than they used to get when the world economies were booming.
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This year, IIM Ahmedabad, the largest and most prestigious of the institutes, has seen a 50 per cent slowdown in placements on the coveted "day zero" (the first day), probably for the first time since the dotcom bust in 2000.
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After agreeing to the Centre's decision to drastically reduce fees, the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, on Monday sought an annual assistance of Rs 2 crore from it.
'I remember that when I was about seven years old, a doctor saw me and told my family that I would only survive for six months and that the disease had no cure. But my mother never gave up. She would always say, 'My son is born to become a renowned wrestler'.'
R C Bhargava, chairman of Maruti Suzuki India and author of the report on the restructuring of B-schools, says a reason why IIMs have not progressed the way they should have is because there are no real stakeholders.
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Prem Kumar Ravi was preparing for CAT when a phone call from a freind in November 2008 changed the course of his life. The friend asked him to talk to Sumanth Iyengar who was also preparing for CAT, but suffered from cerebral palsy. The conversation spurred Prem to start Spurthi, an academy that trains students with disabilities and from economically weaker sections to crack CAT and secure admissions to the famed IIMs.
Salaries offered to Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) graduates have increased 15-20 per cent compared to last year, during the recently concluded final placements, with more than 70 students bagging international postings.
The institute has managed to get its batch of almost 300 students, which is the largest batch among all the IIMs, placed in a record 4.5 days.
As part of its new partnership with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Columbia Business School is hosting 11 students from the former's Post Graduate Programme for Executives (PGPX) for one week of dedicated classes and industry visits.
CPI (M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury has outsourced the planning of the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme in West Bengal to IIM-A students. Students will be involved closely with the constituency's role in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. 4-5 students will work on this project and will be guided by faculty advisors. This project will enable students to understand the working of government and public policy.
While consulting firms and investment bankers preferred not to participate in the lateral placements as usual, sources say that companies such as KPMG, Aditya Birla Group, Barclays Bank, Microsoft, Infosys and Capgemini have issued the maximum number of offers.
As against the existing channels of delivery of banking and financial services in the rural under-banked areas, adoption of mobile financial services (MFS) may tend to be easier, says a study by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).
Unlike most management graduates for whom the sky is the limit in corporate matters, Kaushalendra with a management degree from IIM Ahmedabad chose to sell vegetables on city streets and still dreamt of making it big.
The institute has revised fees for the one year post graduate programme for executives by five per cent as well.
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