IIM Ahmedabad will provide a performance-linked pay model to the Sixth Pay Commission which has been assigned the task of recommending revised pay scales for central government staff.
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A team from IIM-Ahmedabad will study the branded products of Tihar Jail and suggest ways to improve marketing of these items, Tihar Jail Director General Neeraj Kumar said.
Taking a cue from its sister concerns, the prestigious Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IIM-K) on Monday announced a steep 20 and 22 per cent hike in the annual fee for the academic year beginning from June 2006.
The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, invites delegates, entrepreneurs, professionals and MBA students to attend Arthanomics 2006, its annual finance seminar.
The committee, headed by Maruti Udyog CEO R C Bhargava, has already visited some of the IIMs and has completed its deliberations on the matter pertaining to administration and excellence of the institutes. The IIMs have already hiked their fees from this year. IIM-Ahmedabad had announced steepest increase of 175 per cent in the fees of its first year post-graduate programme from Rs 200,000 to Rs 5,50,000. Similarly other IIMs have increased their fees.
The Indian Institutes of Management have begun the exercise to sift creamy layer among OBC by asking candidates belonging to the category to give details of their status with regard to 'creamy layer' in keeping with the Supreme Court directive. The move by the IIMs comes in the wake of the HRD Ministry's directive last Sunday to all centrally-funded elite educational institutions, including IIMs and IITs, to implement the OBC reservation from this year sans creamy layer.
The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, is organising Crucible 2006, a seminar on The Changing Face of Indian Economy.
Meet IIM graduate, senior brand consultant and debutant author Karan Bajaj.
An alumnus of IIM Calcutta, he is the first ex-student of any IIM to be appointed to this position.
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Prometric, the US-based agency that is conducting the ensuing Common Admission Test (CAT), have released a practice test on the web ahead of the actual examination.
With 15 per cent lesser number of candidates taking the Common Admission Test (CAT) this year and the number of seats in all the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) put together increased, is there a better chance for a candidate to get in?
'We will maintain the quality that we have today. But in the long run, it depends whether the government will provide the funds we need for maintaining our standards,' says IIM-K director Dr A H Kalro.
The meeting decided to help candidates get loans from financial institutions.
Referring to first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the one who built modern India, Mukherjee said that he had helped build an atmosphere of free debate and discussions and not conflict and confrontation.
Moving ahead from offering sector specific wage rates within India, paycheck.in will soon monitor global minimum wage standards across regions like Asia, Pacific, Middle East and Europe.
The programme, which aims to fulfil the requirements of a new generation of entrepreneurs and family businesses, is jointly offered by IIM-B and U21 Global. They now aim to take the programme abroad, offering it to non-resident Indians in south east Asia and West Asia.
The minister said that IIMs have to amend MoAs to set up centres abroad.
Having begun operations only in July 2008, the institute has come a long way. Take a look.
Ending a year-long tussle with the government, the Indian Institutes of Management on Wednesday agreed to provide 'all types of support' for setting up six new B-schools in the country which are expected to start functioning from the coming academic session.
"In an everyday changing environment and increased globalisation, it becomes necessary for us to adopt a global framework for governance to withstand foreign pressure and achieve world standards," Dholakia said.
The Indian Railways will set up mobile e-ticketing centres at hospitals, universities, courts, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), district headquarters and village panchayats, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said while presenting the Budget on Wednesday.
The Tibetan leader will be in Ahmedabad as part of a Tibetan festival to be organised in the city. The lecture will be open to all students and faculty members.
In the beginning, the institute will function from a temporary campus situated in the heart of Patna. A senior official of the state government told rediff.com that IIM, Patna will be headed by rural marketing guru and Dean of Information Technology and Management Kozikhde V Mukunda Das.
After IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore, the IIM Lucknow has decided to increase the fee of its post graduate programme in management by Rs 1,50,000 per annum from the coming academic session. "We will increase the fee from Rs 2,50,000 per annum at present to Rs 400,000 per year from 2009-10 academic session. The fee will be Rs 400,000 each year during the two-year programme," IIM Lucknow director Prof Devi Singh told PTI.
The MoU was inked by IIM-Indore Director S P Parashar and the Association CEO Gibson Vedamani.
Prasad told the IIM-team how he changed the old dictums like raising of goods and passenger fares to minimise cost and increase trade, reduced wagons turnaround time from seven to five days and raised carrying capacity of goods trains.
Armed with an IIM degree, they will be able to compete in the corporate world and will also be up to date with the required skills and knowledge.
