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 directors also unanimously adopted a resolution for scholarships for needy students, but declined to divulge the contents of the proposal.
We asked readers about what they think of the union HRD ministry's proposal to levy an exit tax on IIT and IIM graduates who go to work abroad for lucrative salaries or to pursue higher studies. Here's the readers' response on the subject.
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 IIM have declared dates for the upcoming Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2010.
It's a story of contradictions across the Indian Institute of Managements as far as the 'Certificate Course in Business Administration' for the Officers of the Indian Armed Forces is concerned.
IIM-L student Bharat Jhurani narrates how he aced his group discussion and personal interview post CAT.
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.
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 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.
Two IIM graduates Anjali Mullati and H Jaishankar have been fighting for a cause apart from running their own business venture. Anjali speaks about their gutsy journey.
In a first, graduating students from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) have decided to pledge Rs 200 per month in favour of the institute from their salaries for one year.
The IIMs will begin final placements in March 2010.
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.
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. But IIM-B makes its students work hard and also play hard, making them all-rounders was the unanimous opinion expressed by its medalists for the year 2007-08.
A group of six IIM-A students proposed the idea of starting the helpline to former President A P J Abdul Kalam and IIM-A professor Anil Gupta, which was appreciated by them.
Premier educational institutes like IIMs and IITs may be taxed for the placement charges they receive from companies. Tell us your views!
The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) announces admissions to its 1-year residential International Programme for Executives (IPMX 2009-10) at its Noida campus.
The academic rigour of the PGPEX course is their response to ISB's spectacular success.
The six IIMs will be announcing the list of admissions for the coming academic session by April 21.
Some have been cherry-picked to assert the BJP's supremacy over its allies or, significantly, its leaders who charted an independent course in the recent past.
Ram Mohan, an engineer and an IIM-A graduate has dabbled in investment, stock broking, entrepreneurship, media till he turned a film producer with Ashta Chamma.
To ease the load on faculty members taking admission interviews for the post-graduate programme (PGP), the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B), for the first time, will include alumni members as part of the interview panel.
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta invites applications for Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Aided Management (PGDCM).
