It was also decided by the IIM-C's academic council that all the faculty members of the three erstwhile academic groups and the Centre for Development and Environment Policy would become members of the newly formed group. Professor Manish Thakur would be the Group Coordinator.
According to IIM-C, the Public Policy and Management (PPM) Group at IIM Calcutta plans to contribute to the making of future managers at one of the best management schools in the Asia-Pacific Region. Members of the group will address challenges of policy innovation, governance for public service delivery, relationship between government and industry, and try to influence public policy through high quality academic research and consultancy for policy analysis and programme evaluation.
The Group's faculty will be involved in shaping the understanding of key contemporary debates in public management, with specific focus on Management of Institutions for Urban and Rural Development, Business Solutions for Poverty Alleviation, Environment & Sustainable Energy Policy, Education Management, Healthcare Policy & Management, International Geopolitics, Legal Aspects of Business, Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructural & Social Development, Intellectual Property Rights, Management of NGOs, & Citizen Engagement and Emerging Models of Shared Governance.
The Group will offer core courses in Indian Economic & Political History, Indian Social Structure, Indian Legal System, and Environment & Development. The Group offers a range of interdisciplinary elective courses in the areas of Politics of Development, Country Risk Analysis, Urban Management, seminar on Entrepreneurship, seminar on Development Problems, Social Issues & Social Policy, Rural Development & Social Change, Rural Markets & Agrarian Structure, and Public Systems Management.
