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4 unusual facts about Indian Institutes of Management


Indian Institutes of Management

Apart from its flagship PGDM programme, it offers special programmes in Enterprise Management (PGPEM) and Public Policy Management (PGPPM).

It also offers a one-year postgraduate programme in Public Management and Policy.

The Other Backward Classes have also been given 27% reservation since 2008 after the Supreme Court of India upheld the validity of government regulation.

University system

Indian Institutes of Management A group of 13 public, autonomous institutes of management education in India.


2006 Indian anti-reservation protests

The government proposed to reserve 27% of seats in the premier educational institutions of India like All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Other Medical Colleges, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and other central institutions of higher education for the OBCs in order to help them gain higher levels of representation in these institutions.

Indus World School

The Indus World School was established by IIT and IIM alumni R. Satya Narayanan, Gautam Puri, Nikhil Mahajan, Sujit Bhattacharyya, R. Srinivasan, D. Vijay Kumar and Shiv Kumar who wished to create "a place of learning with a difference".

T. V. Rao

It was started as a "Review Exercise of the Performance Appraisal System" for Larsen & Toubro by the duo from the Indian Institutes of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) which resulted in the development of a new function - The Human Resources Development Function.


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