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The BCG project, which is supported by the United Nations' World Food Programme, the government of India and the government of Orissa, involves scanning finger prints and the iris for preparing biometric cards for a population of around 1 million. Srijan Pal Singh, an IIM-A student, who is part of the project, says the biometric cards will be filtered through a super computer to avoid duplications.
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The government's efforts to set up six new Indian Institutes of Management have been marred by resistance from some of the existing ones which are not keen on the idea of mentoring the new institutes, forcing the government to set up a committee to evolve a suitable module for the purpose.
The global financial slowdown, perhaps for the first time in recent years, has forced premier B-school IIM-B to extend the placement process for the second week, which otherwise would have been completed in the first week itself. Industry sources say this is the problem with most other IIMs as there is not much of demand for the elite management graduates this year.
IIM-A and XLRI were invited in 2008 by late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
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The directors also unanimously adopted a resolution for scholarships for needy students, but declined to divulge the contents of the proposal.
Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said the government has written letters to heads of IITs and IIMs and vice chancellors of universities seeking their cooperation and involvement in the scheme. He said the government has asked officials of these reputed institutes to visit villages for conducting technical and impact assessment studies besides lending their help in implementing the programme.
The government's plan to set up four new Indian Institutes of Management may not materialise this year due to bottlenecks which include land acquisition problems and shortage of faculty.The Ministry of Human Resource Development had stated its intention to establish seven new IIMs. Four of the premier institutes were to be set up in Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Raipur (Chhattishargh) and Rohtak (Haryana) in 2009-10.
Nearly 150 companies visited the campus this year.
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Students of the country's premiere B-school, Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), are busy playing games, literally. These students have started learning tricks of financial markets by playing online games.Known for its case study method of teaching, IIM-A brought in online gaming to teach portfolio management to its students.
The institutes are excellent because of the quality of students.
The IIM have declared dates for the upcoming Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010.
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For this purpose, the government has identified two sites -- Escort Farms in the industrial town of Kashipur and Pant Nagar agriculture university. In both the places, vast land is available for a possible IIM, which requires 200 acres.
Lack of adequate infrastructure major drawback.
The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has hiked the fees for its post-graduate mangement programme from Rs 1.77 lakh (Rs 177,000) to Rs 2 lakh (Rs 200,000).
Post-Moily, the debate is about how the IIMs' quality is likely to suffer. Yet, good US B-schools have a lot more students and a lot better research.
This year, however, things are set to change. With the intention of creating more global and Indian women business leaders, IIMs have admitted a record number of girl-students for their flagship post-graduate programme.
The minister said on Tuesday it may not be immediately feasible for the IITs and IIMs to open campuses abroad as they are facing faculty shortages and have to undertake 54 per cent expansion in their intake to implement OBC quota. Setting of campuses abroad may further strain the IITs' limited manpower and other resources, Purandeswari said in a written reply.
The IIM-A faculty council during its meeting held on Saturday last had opposed the new government order on pay revision and asked IIM-A director Samir Barua to delay its implementation by a month.
