While exclusively talking to MBAUniverse.com, Dr Bakul Dholakia, Director AIIM, says, “The institute has been set up with a vision to provide high-quality education and training to young persons for shouldering the managerial responsibilities in the infrastructure and allied sectors.” M.
AIIM, which is owned by the Adani Group of companies, will initially offer one-year, full time, residential, PGPIM from September, 2009. Apart from this, there are some short duration programmes for executives at both senior as well as middle management levels.
PGPIM will be specifically positioned as a unique programme in Infrastructure Management. Launching such a unique long duration programme will also achieve the purpose of creating a think tank of AIIM faculty who will develop sector-specific expertise by concentrating on focused Research, Case Material Development and Consultancy in the Infrastructure & Allied sectors.
When asked about the objective behind the launch of the PGPIM course, AIIM director Dr Dholakia said, “All One-Year programmes currently being offered by Indian Business Schools are essentially General Management Programmes. Some Business Schools offer One-Year programmes with specialization in either Ports & Shipping, or Oil & Gas, but no reputed foreign or Indian Business School offers full time One-Year Programme covering the entire spectrum of infrastructure and allied sectors. PGPIM aims at filling this gap.”
The programme is meant for bright & young executives with significant work experience. The candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline; should be Minimum 25 years of age as on September 01, 2009; and must have taken GMAT/CAT exam after January 01, 2006.
The Programme Fee for the inaugural batch (2009-10) will be INR 10.00 Lakhs. The programme fee includes tuition fees, basic programme material, library & network charges, and accommodation on single occupancy basis.
More specifically, the Programme Fee does not include the expenses on food, the costs of the Study Visits within India and overseas and the cost of Laptop, which will have to be borne by the participants. Total expenses on food and study visits are likely to be around INR 2.25 lakhs.
Admission to PGPIM will be a two-stage process: Stage I will be the Assessment of Candidate’s Profile coupled with GMAT or CAT score; and stage II will include personal interview. The final selection will be based on the following criteria: Academic Record; Professional Experience; Accomplishments (academic, professional and extra curricular); GMAT Score or CAT Score; and Interview.
As far as the short-duration programmes are concerned, AIIM has already designed and offered two General Management Programmes for the senior executives of the Adani Group companies. AIIM also plans to design and offer specialized programmes in selected fields such as Project Management, Management of Ports & Shipping, Management of Transport Network, Management of Power Projects and other programmes focusing on Infrastructure Sector to be designed by the Institute Faculty.
