The symbiosis between the Institute for Business Economics (SIBM), Pune, offers management training for students and professionals. It has a Wi-Fi campus that students are going online to facilitate, without son and plug-ins.

The campus also includes a modern 600-seat Salle, education, classrooms with audio-visual equipment, computer room with broadband connectivity, a library with more than 1.90000 books, journals, magazines, periodicals, CDs and video cassettes and a cafeteria. In addition, a campus of the Six Sigma Club, Six Sigma, training institute for members. SIBM is currently planning to lay its residential complex in full Nevale near Pune in April 2006.

The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, (IIM-B) has entered into a partnership with Hughes Escorts Communication Ltd (HECL) to offer a host of long-term programmes to working executives over the Hughes’ Direcway Global Education Platform.

These specialised programmes cater to the needs of a broad spectrum of industries. In the coming years, IIM Bangalore will also target international markets such as Sri Lanka, Singapore and parts of West Asia.

Two new programmes - Advanced General Management Program (AGMP) for IT and ITES professionals (AGMP) and Executive General Management Programme (EGMP) - are slated for launch in the next two months. These on-campus programmes will be beamed live instantaneously to 47 Direcway Global Education classrooms located at 35 cities across India.