Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
Type Public Business School
Established 2010
Chairman Ravi Kant
Director Atanu Rakshit
Students 335
Location Rohtak, Haryana, India
Campus Urban
Website iimrohtak.ac.in

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, abbreviated IIM-Rohtak, is a public business school located in Rohtak, Haryana, India. It is the ninth Indian Institute of Management to be established. It was inaugurated in June 2010.[1]

History

The 11th Five Year Plan, endorsed by the National Development Council in December 2007, envisaged the establishment of six new IIMs.

IIM Rohtak is amongst the six new IIMs that were approved by the Union Cabinet on 27 August 2009. It is also India’s first IIM north of Delhi. The institute was mentored by IIM Lucknow in its formative years. Prof. P Rameshan, the dean administration of IIM Kozhikode, was the first director of IIM Rohtak from 2010-2015. The current director is Prof Atanu Rakshit. [2]

Inauguration

IIM Rohtak started functioning on 30 June 2010. It was formally inaugurated on the same day by Mr. Ravi Kant, Vice Chairman of Tata Motors Ltd., in the presence of eminent faculty of IIM Lucknow and board members. Mr. Ravi Kant is the first Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIM Rohtak. The initial batch strength was pegged at 48 students to keep a high student teacher ratio.[3][4] In the academic sessions after 2011, the intake has been increasing upwards of 120-130 students.[5]

Campus

IIM Rohtak academic building

IIM Rohtak's 80 hectares (200 acres) campus is being constructed at Sunaria near Rohtak city. A budget of about Rs.2.50 billion has been allocated by the Central Government of India to develop the campus. The foundation stone for the new campus was laid on 1 October 2010. The institute is expected to shift to its permanent campus soon. [6]

IIM Rohtak is temporarily functioning from Maharishi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak. The classrooms are located in the spacious and air conditioned humanities block which has been fitted with all equipment necessary for seamless classes. The block is supported by library and IT facilities. According to the MOU signed between IIM Rohtak and MDU, the students and staff of IIM Rohtak will have access to almost all the infrastructure of the university.[7]

The hostels are spacious, well lit twin seater rooms, with separate blocks for boys and girls. The girls hostel is especially safe, with round the clock security both at the gates and around the hostel block.

Placements

IIM Rohtak has wrapped up its final placements for the batch of 2014-16, and the summer placements process for the batch of 2015-2017 of PGDM and FPM courses.[8]

Associations

On 31 August 2011, IIM Rohtak and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, signed a Memorandum of Understanding( MOU) for academic collaboration.[9] The partnership will be in the form of joint research and doctoral work, exchange programmes for both teachers and students, and joint academic structures for executives and consultation on joint teaching material. IIM Rohtak also received the membership of prestigious AACSB accreditation agency on 18 January 2012.[10] The institute also has long term academic collaborations with California State University at Fullerton, and Singapore Management University, which will also involve faculty and student exchange.

Academics

PGPM

The flagship program of the institute, it is designed as an integrated whole to mould the participants towards being socially and ecologically aware managers with a deep rooted value system, and towards 'learning to learn'. After a series of core courses in all domains of management, a summer internship is undertaken by the students, following which cutting edge electives follow, taken by industry experts and sought after professors, preparing the to-be managers to thrive in a dynamic business environment.

FPM

The doctoral program in management (also known as Fellow Program in Management (FPM)) at IIM Rohtak strives to incorporate the strengths of similar programmes in other major institutions and has included specific innovative features in the curriculum and methodology as per the emerging needs of the industry and academia. It offers financial aid to all its participants. The list of currently possible specialisations in the FPM, as in the year 2016-17, are

- Business Environment - Financial Management - General Management - Human Resources Management - Information Technology Systems - Marketing - Operations - Strategic Management. - Interdisciplinary areas: i)Retail Management - ii)Manufacturing including Logistics and Supply Chain Management

EPGP

The EPGP at IIM Rohtak is for a pan-industry cross section of experienced executives, entrepreneurs and professionals, who desire to enhance their managerial knowledge and skills through formal management education without significant disruptions in their work schedule. It is designed to have both on and off campus modules. While the off-campus distance module will form the mainstay of the programme, the on-campus module is designed to give the participants the experience of the residential programmes of the Institute and a sense of belongingness to IIM Rohtak as both students and alumni later.

MDPs and FDPs

Faculty Development Programs (FDPs) of IIM Rohtak are aimed at maintaining and improving the professional competency of faculty members working in business schools of universities and private institutions within India and abroad. The FDPs offered by IIM Rohtak are designed in the form of workshops, training programmes, lectures and demonstrations.

The MDPs offered by IIM Rohtak are designed as short-duration skill development programmes for business executives and government personnel who cannot attend long-duration programmes but need timely updating of their managerial skills. As open programmes or sponsored programmes, the various disciplines covered by MDPs of IIM Rohtak are: Marketing, Human Resource Management, Operations, Finance & Accounting, Information Technology Systems, Strategic Management, General Management and Business Environment.

Events

Udaan

Udaan is organized annually by Entrepreneurship Cell of IIM Rohtak. Udaan provides a platform for students, mentors, venture capitalists and businesses to learn and share network. The event endeavours to facilitate knowledge and experience sharing by bringing together experts from industry to present their views and breed in students the pride to be an entrepreneur.

Conclaves and summits

The institute organised its first annual Management Conclave, "Mission India", on 30 October 2011, and from then on, year after year, Management conclaves have been organised on themes that have brought together several industry stalwarts. Leaders from across the industry spectrum have presented their views on India’s growth story and challenges ahead during the course of panel discussions and interactions with the students. HR Conclaves, CXO summits, and Internet summits have further increased the productive industry-academia interaction at IIM Rohtak. The 2014-16 batch saw the start of the Entrepreneurship Summit and its successful second iteration in 2015.

Infusion

Infusion is the flagship cultural-sports event of Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak. In its first version in 2013, it surmises to say that the event began with a bang. Infusion 2013, sponsored by SBI, laid the groundwork and the event has only gotten bigger and better in the versions that followed. This year, with several big ticket sponsors including Central Bank of India, Idea, Ebay, Safexpress and many others, the festival included 50+ events which were successfully organized and coordinated by a force of about 200 people. The chief attractions of this year's Infusion were the rocking performance by Antariksh the band, the hilarious night featuring stand-up comedian Chuck Gopal and the various online and offline events that saw a total participation of over 50000 students.

Run for the Girl Child

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak successfully organized the marathon themed "Run for the Girl Child" for the first time on 19 February 2012. The event elicited a great response, with more than 2000 participants. Since then, the Run For Girl Child marathon, of special relevance in Haryana where IIM Rohtak is located, has seen the participation of thousands of people in various categories of the run, such as a 10 km run, a 5 km run for girls, 5 km run for boys and a 3 km run for children below 12 years. 2015 saw Sanath Jayasuriya as the chief guest of the IIM Rohtak marathon, while 2014 had Maj. DP Singh, and 2013 had Shri Milkha Singh as the guests of honour.

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