Degrees were awarded to 278 students of Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi (IIM-R) on the occasion of its eight convocation ceremony organized on Saturday.
Among these included eight doctoral students who were awarded PhD in Management, 179 MBA students, 62 MBA HRM students and 27 students of executive post graduate diploma in management (PGEXP).
Chief Guest of the occasion, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Government of India, Jayant Sinha called the convocation as a landmark moment for the professional lives of students.
“We are growing fast without taking on significant leverage which is extraordinary. This is due to the series of structural reforms undertaken by the Government to increase productive capacity. A major move to increase productive capacity was rapidly adding IIMs to all the states,” he said.
Talking about the achievements of Aviation ministry, Sinha said that there were only 70 airports in the country when he took charge of office while today there are 100 airports with commercially scheduled services. “The government has added 5-10 airports a year in 5 years, and increased the count of Ranchi airport flights from only 12 flights a day to 32 flights.”
He encouraged students to have a vision to form their own unique development model- farm to frontier, saying that youngsters are at that frontier. “This way we can create the India of our dreams, which is well ahead of any other country,” Sinha said.
Director of the institute, Dr. Shailendra Singh said that the institute has shifted from awarding Diplomas to Degrees, and the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) has become PHD. “Students getting more than 8.75 CGPA are entered in the Roll of Honour, and four students have made to it from the 2017-19 batch,” he said.
Singh mentioned that the institute has inherited the legacy of the oldest IIM-IIM Calcutta, through its mentorship. He announced the achievements of the institute’s faculty members who have published 30 research papers in national and international journals of repute and have presented papers in conferences. The institute has added three new faculty members this year making the total strength of core faculty 31.