The Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM Indore) hosted its 17th annual convocation on Saturday, March 26. The two-day occasion witnessed a pre-convocation ceremony. The ceremonies were marked by the presence of esteemed guests and parents of the graduating students.
The convocation is held each year to confer the title of the Fellow of Indian Institute of Management Indore for its Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) and diplomas to the successful participants of Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP-Mumbai) and Post Graduate Programme in Management MX-Mumbai (PGPMX, Mumbai). The first batch (2011-16) of Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) also graduated this year with a total 104 students. They received Integrated Diploma in Management for the same.
During the Convocation, 16 FPM participants received the title of Fellow of IIM Indore. 447 participants of PGP and65 participants of PGP-Mumbai received the Post Graduate Diploma in Management. 104 IPM participants received the diplomas of Five Year Integrated Programme in Management. 59 participants of EPGP and 12 participants of PGPMX-UAE received the Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management.
Chairperson, State Bank of India Arundhati Bhattacharya was the Chief Guest for the convocation. On this occasion, a tree plantation event was also organised.
Bhattacharya in her address said, ‘Success means different to different people. For a person who has difficulty in arranging a meal, getting a meal is a success. For a person who has everything, maintaining that success is a success. And for you, all the graduating students, getting a degree from such an eminent B-School, is a success. However, as you go ahead, individual success would not be sufficient. It is like climbing a mountain and realizing that there is a bigger peak behind that.’
Jagdish Capoor, Chairman, IIM Indore then declared the convocation open. 'You may be moving out of the Institute, but your linkage with the Institute will always remain the same. I wish you move ahead with the same fire alive, same passion and greater rigor.