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IIMK to churn out socially sensitive executives
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Departments, Education, Information, Other on March 30th, 2010
If livelihood is for life, what is life for? A simple question but pregnant with a heavy message that would make anybody ponder. Curiously, the person who poses this question is not a philosopher or a religious guru, but the affable Debashis Chatterjee, director, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode, Kerala.
Unlike other heads of business schools, who normally wax eloquent about their curriculum, campus placements and compensation package offered by corporations, Chatterjee talks about producing managers who are socially and environmentally sensitive.
“The primary mandate for me is to churn out management graduates. However, my own mandate is to provide the students a transformational experience inside the campus while honing their expertise into excellence,” Chatterjee told IANS here.
The youngest to head an IIM, Chatterjee chucked a lucrative job in Singapore to come to Kozhikode last year.
“Today the need is for managers who are socially and environmentally sensitive. Industry needs managers who are team players whereas business schools send out individualistic personalities. We will give what the industry wants,” he said.
Expecting about 10 students of the 2010 batch turning into entrepreneurs, he added: “We certainly do not want to produce ‘rowdy’ executives.”
Set up in a picturesque locale, IIMK seems like a modern day management ‘gurukul’, though Chatterjee does not agree with that description.
“Gurukul has much wider meaning. At IIMK we would like to be known as the dreamers of the seemingly impossible rather than competent mercenaries. IIMK is of recent history but isolated by its geography. The challenge is bridging both,” he said.
Chatterjee is confident that his institution will be known outside India for its differentiated approach and international executive training programmes.
Asked about faculty contribution to building IIMs’ brand equity by their research papers and industrial consultancy projects, Chatterjee said: “Five of our faculty members are active in the consulting space. We are looking at consulting projects in higher education domain in Kerala so as to make it the hub of higher education.”
“Further, the student-teacher ratio should change so that the latter can focus on research”.
Chatterjee said that retaining the faculty is indeed a challenge given the locational disadvantages faced by IIMK.
Faculty attrition is a major problem faced by IIMK since it started operation.
“In the last one year we have increased our faculty strength by 12 to 40. This is set to increase to 50. Attrition was there earlier but it is not a problem now,” Chatterjee said.
According to him, the ratio of visiting to own faculty is expected to change from the current 1:2.
“It is an old notion to say that faculty should be owned. With telecommunication network we can have experts in different fields located at various places to teach our students.”
Question him about IIMK not figuring among the top business schools in the country, he says: “We are just 12 years young. Many of our alumni are in the top management cadre. Once they occupy the CEO slots IIMK’s brand equity will go up.”
Materials and their Processing CROME-2010 from March 22
Posted by ganesh in College, Communication, Education, Information, Trichy, modification, programme, release, student, tamilnadu on March 13th, 2010
In a press release here today, Mr S Karunakaran, Chairman of the local chapter of IIM, said CROME-2010 was aimed at providing a knowledge sharing platform by bringing together learned personalities in the field of metallurgy and materials processing and the students of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the disciplines of metallurgical, materials, mechanical and production engineering.
Mr Karunakaran, who is also the General Manager of BHEL here, said about eight experts from NIT Tiruchy, IIT Chennai, PESIT Bangaluru, Annamalai University and BHEL would deliver special lectures covering the fundamentals of materials processing as well as the recent advances in the materials engineering.
”About 30 research papers will be presented by the students from various institutions. Therefore, CROME-2010 will be an ideal opportunity for the younger generation to learn about the recent advances and opportunities in the exciting field of materials and metallurgical engineering,” he added.
The students could get more details from www.iimtiruchy.org or through E-mail: tmaqiim@gmail.com, he said.
Seriously consider transforming BIM into IIM-Tiruchi:Vice-Chancellor P.S. Manisundaram
Posted by ganesh in College, Communication, Education, Information, Other, Trichy, businesses, function, government, programme on February 16th, 2010
The Ministry of Human Resource Development should seriously consider transforming the Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), a School of Excellence of Bharathidasan University, into Indian Institute of Management – Tiruchi (IIM-T), according to the first Vice-Chancellor of University P.S. Manisundaram who was instrumental in creating the BIM in partnership with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).
Expenditure of hundreds of crores of rupees for establishment of the new IIM in Tiruchi was unwarranted. The university’s experimentation with BIM was the first of its kind in the country and did not entail any expenditure. The MHRD must come forward to up-grade the BIM into IIM and retain it in the fold of BHEL.
The unique model of institution-industry interface should not be disturbed. As things stand, no body owns the BIM and the transformation can be made a smooth process, Prof. Manisundaram opined.
The enormous money meant for IIM could instead be utilised for strengthening the school education system, said Prof. Manisundaram, wondering why so much should be spent for IIM where the facilities of a handful of hi-tech classrooms and a full-fledged library will suffice. There have been precedents of higher educational institutions getting upgraded into central institutions in the country.
Also, in the event of converting the BIM into IIM, the new institution can have the requisite paraphernalia for a head start, he said.
Meanwhile, the outcome of last week’s visit of a central team for the purpose of identifying a temporary campus for the new IIM is yet to be known. The team visited the campuses of National Institute of Technology – Tiruchi, BHEL, Bharathidasan University and Anna University – Tiruchi. The NIT-T is prepared to provide hostel accommodation for the students from the coming academic year, and the BHEL is ready to set aside rooms for academic and administrative purposes.
Shortage of infrastructure
As for the two universities, they had reportedly expressed their inability to provide buildings citing shortage of infrastructure for their own requirements.The possibility for MHRD to utilise the facilities provided by the NIT-T and BHEL for the new IIM-T is higher, reliable sources said, citing the instance of the IIM-Kozhikode that functioned from the campus of NIT-Calicut at the time of its start in 1996 before moving into its own campus in 2003.
In the case of IIM-T, the permanent campus could be created within a couple of years since the location has already been identified: A 192.35 acre site sandwiched between Bharathidasan University and Anna University – Tiruchi.
Chikungunya and dengue, cost an estimated ‘burden’ of 1.4 billion U.S. dollars for India per year
Posted by ganesh in Departments, Health, Madurai, Public, government, hospital, programme on December 19th, 2009
Two vector-borne diseases, chikungunya and dengue, cost an estimated ‘burden’ of 1.4 billion U.S. dollars for India per year, according to a latest national level study undertaken by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, through its Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS).
The findings of the study are soon going to be published in the dengue bulletin of the World Health Organisation and this was for the first time that the cost has been quantified through a scientific evaluation, S. S. Vasan, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford, said on Friday.
Speaking to The Hindu in Madurai, he said the estimated cost of 1.4 billion dollars includes treatment, wage loss, doctor fees, productivity impact, hospitalisation and the expenses incurred by the family members of the affected persons who visit hospitals.
“The study was led by Dileep Mavalankar of CMHS situated in IIM-Ahmedabad, and the conclusions came early this year. It was also a multi-country study that covered U.S., U.K., Malaysia and other countries,” Dr. Vasan, who was one of the co-investigators in this project, said.
He informed that the estimated cost aspects for India due to the prevalence of chikungunya and dengue cases took into account both reported and unreported cases also.
“The money people have been spending on mosquito coils and the funds utilised by the government for vector control activities like fogging, were also included to arrive at the total cost for India,” Dr. Vasan said.
Five States
Stating that the burden is immense for India because of chikungunya and dengue every year, he said that 90 per cent of the burden cost was attributed to five States including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
Dr. Vasan, who is also the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Oxitec, a company that promotes the technology/inventions made at the Oxford University, was in the city to participate in the third conference on
‘Medical Arthropodology’, organised by the Centre for Research in Medical Entomology (CRME), a laboratory of the Indian Council of Medical Research.
Mathematical model
Earlier, he delivered a lecture explaining the newly developed mathematical model to study the flight/distance covered by mosquitoes and what terrain conditions that suit them most.
“There are around 3,500 mosquito species and not all of them are our enemies. The mosquitoes that cause immense burden to us in cost and health factors must be studied scientifically,” Dr. Vasan observed.
The two-day CRME conference is attended by nearly 100 scientists/entomologists form various places and it focused on the theme ‘Integrated Disease Vector Management-Operational Research.’
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