A meeting of the Professors of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Ministry of Corporate affairs, and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur, was convened for reviewing the progress of an MoU signed between both the institutions to strengthen the possibility of research in inter-disciplinary areas.
According to IIM sources, the meeting was chaired by Prof. BS Sahay, Director IIM Raipur and Ashok Chakravarty, chief sustainability officer, National Foundation for CSR. The MoU was signed between IIM Raipur and IICA on October 23, 2013. During the meeting, a number of deliberations took place between the faculties of the two institutions.
The deliberations focused on introduction of new course curricula and design of new course curricula keeping in mind the needs of the industry. Two new proposals were put forth during the meeting: First, to provide for a foolproof certificate in a two-tier process for the industry consortia. Second, to establish a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) based NGO hub.
IIM officials informed that this meeting between the two prestigious institutes would facilitate various academic capacity building, research and consultancy activities. This effort would prove fruitful to the people from the industry interested in pursuing higher education in management. Visiting delegates of IICA happily expressed their support and conveyed their best wishes for the academic collaboration between IICA and IIM Raipur.