NOW that the IIMs have more or less ruled out a legal recourse against the HRD Ministry’s directive to impose a fee cut in their PGP (Post-Graduate Programmes) courses, the country’s premier business schools are busy considering various options to make up for this revenue loss.

“One of the options before us is to increase the number of Management Development Programmes (MDPs),” said Prof Prakash G. Apte, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

In an exclusive interview with Business Line today, he said that the board of governors would meet in the next four days. “IIM-Bangalore will work out its finances then. We have not yet received the break-up for the planned and non-planned grants.”

But would increasing the number of management development programmes not impose a huge load on the already over-burdened professors who are handling various PG courses, executive education programmes and consultancy assignments?

(IIM-Bangalore, for instance, has about 70 professors for 700 students (400 in the PGP, 300 in the PGP in Software Management and 40 PhD students) and this year, the institute has conducted about 45 MDPs.)

Prof Apte said that they might even consider reducing the number of offerings for the students so that more staff time is available for corporate training programmes.

On whether the institute would recruit more teachers, he said: “Yes, that would be one option,” but expressed doubt about finding the right kind of talent in the industry.

But this too would require Government permission. And what about additional funds for the salaries? With the cut in allocation in this year’s Interim Budget - from Rs 79.73 crore last year to Rs 45 crore in 2004-05 - the IIMs would have to tread this path carefully.

Meanwhile, the Government is also insisting that the IIMs increase intake of students.

This might be one way of boosting their revenues, but Prof Apte said: “We can take about 40 more students, provided we have the right infrastructure like hostel rooms, mess, etc.”

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), where he was recruited because of campus Maoists Kommunistischen Centre-sponsored bandh on 9 and February 10.

The player who was expected be held on campus XLRI from February 9 to 11, are being implemented at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Calcutta.

The XLRI administration, Mediation Committee and members of the team logistics, hold an emergency meeting last night decided, and change the venue for recruitment to avoid any inconvenience due to disruption of traffic and services in other countries.

After the decision on amending the city was amended by the administration, students - 65 of the Human Resources and Industrial Relations (PMIR) and 65 of the Business Management Development (BMD) - Calcutta left at the end of the evening.

The students were accompanied by Reshmi Mitra, head of the Mediation Committee. About 60 junior students on their way to Calcutta to help their seniors while the placement.

According to members of the cell’s external relations XLRI, modification of the City shall not affect the investment, given that most corporate honchos, was projected to visit XLRI would return to Calcutta. Companies are already at relocating the event.

This is the first time in the history of the Institute, that the process will take place on campus.

This centre will mainly focus on designing and developing content for Knowledge Horizon’s e-Learning courseware. This centre was opened as part of the vision of the President of Knowledge Horizon, Dr. Ma’en Al Qatamin to provide training to individuals anywhere and at anytime. Opening of Knowledge Horizon E-Learning Pvt. Ltd in India is the first major step forward in the direction towards the major goal of spreading education.

The new office is almost 3100 sq. ft surrounded by the lush green trees which is appropriate for content development and creativity. It is located in Pune, close to the western coast of India; around 155 kms from Mumbai, the business capital of the country. The office premises are in the heart of the city in a place called Shivajinagar. It is in close vicinity to some of the renowned educational institutions of Pune such as Pune University, Fergusson College, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Institute of Management, Development and Research (IMDR) where students come from all over India and abroad to pursue higher studies. Because of its popularity for education, Pune is known as Oxford of East. Dr. Ma’en in his last visit to Pune office reacted ‘This is a nice, quiet place, conducive to creative thinking and working.’

The content development team in India is a dynamic team of individuals that come from diverse educational and working backgrounds besides bringing years of e-Learning experience with them. They specialize in designing and developing training programs for global audiences in a variety of subjects.

The India team will be the starting point of developing courseware for Knowledge Horizon and then will work in coordination with the branch in Jordan, where the production will be completed. The work here will include all content sourcing, designing and development.

Did Verghese Manoirs as chairman of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) unconstitutionally after 17 years? The issue has caused a storm in the milk capital of India, India has pitted against shepherd part of committee members are now questioning the validity of his mandate as head of mail. The issue also has the legal field with two reservations against the Mansions and Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation MD BM Vyas, so that all other members as adversaries.

“IRMA rules say that I am the chairman and life can continue as long as I can,” said Manoirs TOI. Manoirs was appointed president in 1979, when the Institute was created for five years, followed by a three-year extension, until 1987.

But many are not convinced. “There is no clarity on the concept of the president is decisive. After the first eight years, the rules say that the committee an application must be in place for the next appointment in place, but do not specify its mandate. It does not say that the chairman of the Post according to the top of the permanent phase, “said one board member.

“Manoirs also attempted to halt the IRMA unconstitutionally directed, by simply pressing the issue of a newsletter resolution. It convenes a meeting and formed a committee to recommend that both board members,” adds he says.

It was a mood of some members felt that Mansions and offered to resign. “I said:” I have to consider Stepping

down. “I will step when there is a possibility not make me more and more the full support of the Board of Directors,” said Manoirs.

“There is always a possibility, something happens,” he said, when asked if he thought it was a chance of Committee members do not support him. The Committee has established a committee to look into the effects of a market for Charity assistant commissioner Anand, has doubts about its mandate. The Committee, under the direction of the chairman of the Centre for Management Development, Thiruvananthapuram, V. Ramachandran, Vijay MAHAJAN, MD Hyderabad Based on the Basix society and NDDB chairman Amrita Patel as members.

How interesting, the Committee notes that, as a defendant in the reserve Vyas of Gujarat in the High Court, March 21, praying, when he heard each of these members appealed to justice or application on the Tribunal . The reserve has also put other members of the IRMA board as adversaries.

Another reserve Manoirs ourselves, Nadiad in the same court on March 21, it is mentioned as an opponent of five members, including IIM Ahmedabad-Bakul Dholakia IPCL director and former chairman Hasmukh Shah, had “any more than members of 15-2 -2,005 “Despite the fact that they were invited to the meeting of Board of Directors on February 28 again, it nominated for another term.

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC) has an agreement with Oracle India Pvt Ltd, an e-Governance Center of Excellence in Kolkata.

The idea behind the initiative is to create a white paper on the status and prospects of e-governance in the country.

When you’re finished, the White Paper is the Department of Information Technology, Government of India.

According to informed sources, starting by five professors from the IIMC would be in relation to the project, and could be increased at a later stage, depending on demand.

The sources said IIMC has decided to offer management development programmes.

ICFAI Business School east of efforts to promote the improvement of the Faculty. Teachers participating in school are submitted in writing research papers and case studies, Ph.D., development and implementation of management development programmes and members of advisory services to companies. ICFAI Business School launched the Institute of Management Teachers in the year 2002, tap the talents of fresh post-graduates, the ability to teach.

The first batch of 20 teachers in their training and poorly absorbed by the Institute.

Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) is making an assessment of its core curriculum, shifting its focus to case-oriented curriculum from the current theory and lecture- based curriculum. It has hired faculty from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, which follows a case- oriented curriculum. IIM-C is hiring individuals who either have industry background or a management background. It is creating IIM-C Long Duration for residential management development programmes.

New centres for corporate governance and entrepreneurship have also been set up.

Members of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) on board are ready for a confrontation horrible, on Friday, with Battle Lines between the two groups on the validity of the PCA Verghese Manoirs term.

Letters outside coup, Director-in-Office IRMA LK Vaswani on the eve of the meeting of the board of five members, they invite you to stay away, the scene of a trial of strength with the five to participate in the solution “what it happens. ”

“The letter said, I am not a board member. But it is a fact, I remain a member, and I wrote the president to inform him that I participated in the meeting,” IPCL former chairman Hasmukh Shah told TOI. The five are part Shah, IIMA director Bakul Dholakia, Vijay MAHAJAN industrial, V Ramachandran of the Centre for Management Development, Thiruvananthapuram, and Xavier Institute of Management (Bhubaneswar) Director E Abraham.

TOI learnt that Ramachandran, while the alien is at least three of them are members of planning to carrying out the storm on the problem of “end” of IRMA K Prathap Reddy as a director. Members expect a hostile atmosphere at Anand, fear that their cars are stopped at the door. Sources, as the director of the Office rejected a MAHAJAN same car, flew from Hyderabad.

The committee has recently seen a split on the issue of Manoirs’s tenure as president, with the “Milkman” that life has a president and a board section of the continuation of his words is “unconstitutional”. “A meeting under the presidency of Ronald McDonald Houses, February 28, we had a new three-year term from February 16, 2005. Furthermore, even if new rules - the decline of the concept of two years - more, we Members will continue, as they say that we are an extension of six months or until the date of coopt new members, “said one board member.

The meeting will take place in the context of a circular resolution of eight members of the board of 15 people, terming the move Manoirs Reddy bag as “illegal” and the solution of “resignation” agenda. The resolution is also representatives of the Government of India - committed in the municipality of the department for rural development, Amar Singh - indicates that “Reddy will continue as a director.”

IRMA sources said forcefully table reduced to 14, eight members of the signing of a resolution amounts to a majority. Friday is also the development of legal battles in the HC Gujarat, where two points - a common challenge for a Charity Commissioner Manoirs term and another challenge Reddy denunciation - be heard.

Chennai: The Loyola Institute of Business Administration (Liba) Extension center was inaugurated recently by Mr. Francis Xavier SJ, Chairman, Board of Governors, Liba.

A press release, quoted Louis Xavier SJ, Director, Liba, said: “ The library now takes the entire ground floor of the new building, including research and publications Division. It is air-conditioned and has facilities for the promotion of self-library and study center seminars. The building has audio-visual facilities for the implementation of management development programmes, and has rooms for visiting professors and participants of the management development programmes.”

Office of the function, Mr K. Anbazhagan, Tamil Nadu, the Minister of Education, congratulated Loyola College and Liba for the provision of society and on management training in India.

The University grants the status of this year, the symbiosis International Education Centre at the opening of a new campus in the capital next year.

The only outside Pune University campus now plans to open new branches in Oman, Mauritius and Thai country. A four hectares of land has already been Dwarka College of Law, registration of students by a common entrance test, after an announcement by the University of here and now. The priorities and their campus would Undergraduate and post-graduate diploma with the exception of courses on the lines of management development programmes.

With more than 30000 students, 112 courses attended by 26 of its institutions, the symbiosis between the Institute claims to the clarification of some 49000 resident Indians by their centre for distance education. The Institute is the idea of S.B. Majumdar, the head of the department of botany Fergusson College for almost 20 years. It was founded in 1971 as a symbiosis between culture and international training centre in New Delhi for the promotion of friendship, cooperation and understanding between Indian and foreign students.

The Institute currently provides courses ranging from human resources development, foreign trade, mass communication, art and commerce, telecommunications and information technology among others.