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IIM-A plans to double MBA batch size to 600

Joydeep Ray in Ahmedabad

The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), in a bid to be among the top international business schools, is planning to increase the batch size of its MBA programme from 300 to 600 students in two years.

It will also make all possible efforts to meet international standards in terms of students composition, focus on research and case development by the faculty and infrastructure upgradation.

Director Bakul Dholakia said on Thursday that the new campus coming up shortly would bring it on a par with leading B-schools in terms of infrastructure as well.

"We are going to double the batch size in two years and we hope to be in the list of top schools across the world very soon with all these developments," Dholakia said at the inaugural function of Confluence-2002, the international meet for all B-schools students, on Thursday at the IIM-A campus.

Earlier in the evening, Confluence-02 kicked off in style with eminent corporate personalities gracing the occasion which included A M Naik, chairman of L&T, Kishor Chaukar, executive director of Tata Sons, Bakul Dholakia and others.

However, the Confluence gained its real momentum on Friday, with games being organised by the IT-OPS fair, the finance fair, the marketing fair and the strategy fair attended by students from twelve international leading B-schools and 15 best B-schools across the country, besides corporate invitees.

The chief guest at the inaugural function, A M Naik, said he was concerned by the fact that the placement pattern of MBA graduates was highly skewed in favour of jobs in finance and marketing against those in manufacturing principally owing to the false impressions of the sector.

"This is despite the act that it offers plenty of challenges for young managers and India had already missed opportunities in the past to tap the manufacturing potential and it cannot afford to do that this time. Young managers should be proud Indians by making a contribution to the country's needs," Naik added.

In his speech, Chaukar expressed his belief that young people, bring in change and have always improved the quality of life.

The major attraction of the second day of the fest was the ad workshop conducted by Shekhar Deshpande, strategic planning director of J Walter Thompson.

It was followed by the talk by Hemant Bakshi, head of e-commerce venture of Hindustan Lever who told the tale of e-tailing initiative taken by HLL on Sangamdirect.com.

The evening was both fun-filled and offered a unique chance to students to get to know a first-hand account of Tata's takeover of Tetley by Harish Bhat, vice-president of Titan.

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