Published: Saturday, Feb 12, 2011, 15:23 IST
By Niyati Rana | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA
The Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) is all set to adopt a new role. The premier rural management institute that was established in 1979 by Dr Verghese Kurien, has been a prime source in providing skilled rural managers to help the uplift of the rural poor. And now the institute is taking an initiative to encourage its students to be rural entrepreneurs.
Taking a step towards this, IRMA has come up with a policy for deferred placements from the placement-2011. Earlier, if any student opted out of the placements at IRMA his/her chance of getting placed in reputed grassroots organisations ended.
According to the new policy, students who opt out of placements can be part of the placement process for the next three years.
This means, students opting out of placements in the year 2011 will be able to appear for the placements at IRMA in 2012, '13 and '14.
IRMA has implemented the policy from this year and students of the Post-Graduate Programme in Rural Management (PRM) 2009-2011 that was part of the placement this year, became the first batch to avail of the benefit of the policy.
"One of the reasons to adopt this policy was to boost rural entrepreneurship. As per the policy, students will get an opportunity to opt out of placements, experiment with new ideas and come up with their own venture."
"And at thesame time, if after a few years they feel like working in a grassroots organisation, the alma mater should welcome them back and offer them opportunities," said director of IRMA, Vivek Bhandari.
Placement coordinator and associate professor at IRMA, Prof Preeti Priya, said that this will also provide an opportunity to IRMA students to get placed in reputed organisations, if their entrepreneur experiment did not succeed.
"Or even students (who opt out of placements to start their own venture) want to hand over their business to someone and want to seek a job in a reputed organisation, IRMA can help them by giving an opportunity to appear for the placements within three years of their passing out from the institute," said Prof Priya.
By Niyati Rana | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA
The Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) is all set to adopt a new role. The premier rural management institute that was established in 1979 by Dr Verghese Kurien, has been a prime source in providing skilled rural managers to help the uplift of the rural poor. And now the institute is taking an initiative to encourage its students to be rural entrepreneurs.
Taking a step towards this, IRMA has come up with a policy for deferred placements from the placement-2011. Earlier, if any student opted out of the placements at IRMA his/her chance of getting placed in reputed grassroots organisations ended.
According to the new policy, students who opt out of placements can be part of the placement process for the next three years.
This means, students opting out of placements in the year 2011 will be able to appear for the placements at IRMA in 2012, '13 and '14.
IRMA has implemented the policy from this year and students of the Post-Graduate Programme in Rural Management (PRM) 2009-2011 that was part of the placement this year, became the first batch to avail of the benefit of the policy.
"One of the reasons to adopt this policy was to boost rural entrepreneurship. As per the policy, students will get an opportunity to opt out of placements, experiment with new ideas and come up with their own venture."
"And at thesame time, if after a few years they feel like working in a grassroots organisation, the alma mater should welcome them back and offer them opportunities," said director of IRMA, Vivek Bhandari.
Placement coordinator and associate professor at IRMA, Prof Preeti Priya, said that this will also provide an opportunity to IRMA students to get placed in reputed organisations, if their entrepreneur experiment did not succeed.
"Or even students (who opt out of placements to start their own venture) want to hand over their business to someone and want to seek a job in a reputed organisation, IRMA can help them by giving an opportunity to appear for the placements within three years of their passing out from the institute," said Prof Priya.
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