682 Students Awarded PGDM at IIM Lucknow Convocation 2019 with Dr. Ashok Lahiri, Member, 15th Finance Commission as Chief Guest

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MBAUniverse.com News Desk |
March 19, 2019
IIM Lucknow celebrated its 33rd Annual Convocation on March 16, 2019 with 682 students from different courses being awarded their diplomas on the occasion. Dr. Ashok Lahiri, Member of the 15th Finance Commission was the Chief Guest and delivered the Convocation address. The Chairman of Board of Governors Mr. N Chandrasekaran shared important guiding points for the passing out students on the occasion.
IIM Lucknow Convocation 2019

With Dr. Ashok Lahiri, member of the 15th Finance Commission, as the Chief Guest on the occasion, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM Lucknow) celebrated its 33rd Annual Convocation on March 16, 2019.   The Convocation saw 682 students being awarded their Post Graduate Diplomas.

Prof. B K Mohanty, Director, IIM Lucknow welcomed the chief guest Dr Lahiri and the Chairman of Board of Governors Mr. N Chandrasekaran.

In all 682 students of IIM Lucknow received their diplomas. Out of them 404 students were from the 33rd batch of Post Graduate Programme in Management; 39 students from the 14th batch of Post Graduate Programme in Agri-business Management; 10 students from the Doctoral Programme; 3 students from Executive Fellow Programme in Management (EFPM) along with 145 students from Post Graduate Programme in Management for Working Executives (WMP).

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There were 47 students from International Programme in Management for Executives (IPMX) and 34 students from Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Management (PGPSM), from the IIM Lucknow Noida campus. The institute has been nurturing talent since 1984, and with this outgoing batch of 2019, IIM Lucknow has expanded its alumni network of about 6600+ alumni who have been dedicatedly serving the community through contributions in various domains.

The list of Medal winners for the Post Graduate Programme in Management & Post Graduate Programme in Agri-business Management included Sambhavi Ganguly and Pranjay Modi (Both were awarded Chairman’s Gold Medal); Heena Goyal (Awarded Director’s Medal); Sumit Kumar Agarwal (Awarded PGP Chairman’s Medal). Apart from these recognitions, best all rounder medals, Gold medals for each programme, Chairman’s medal and director’s medal were also awarded on the occasion to meritorious students.

Delivering the convocation address, Mr. Ashok Lahiri, chief guest for the occasion congratulated the students and highlighted that they would be the elite management cadre in the times when the economy transforms from a low-level income to a mid-level income economy. He instilled a sense of competition with our neighbors such as China and Japan and underlined the fact that India could do better and there is still a long way to becoming the developed nation that we aspire to be. Dr Lahiri stressed on the adoption of modern technology and other reforms needed for dealing with agrarian distress. Being one of the only two old institutes offering programme on agri-business management, he called for implementing agricultural reforms in a sustainable way.

Addressing the august gathering, Prof. B K Mohanty, Director, IIM Lucknow highlighted the accomplishments of the institute in the academic year 2018-2019 and said, “To be someone who would be the harbinger of change or at best be the Change yourself”

Industry’s acceptance and faith in IIM Lucknow is evidenced by the consistent qualitative placement record. Prof Mohanty congratulated the students who have won various national & international competitions and awards all year round.

IIM Lucknow has introduced a compulsory course on “Human Values and Responsible Citizenship” for the first year PGP students which was well appreciated by Ministry of HRD, Government of India. There had been a constant and consistent increase in the research output with the number of International papers published in top journals, number of papers presented in Conferences in India as well as abroad, number of books published.

This year IIM Lucknow broke in the 301-350 rankings of the QS World Rankings in the business-management-studies category. It was next only to IIM Bangalore and ISB among the Indian Business schools. The third joint training program of IIM Lucknow and the World Bank on the World Bank’s procurement process have attracted participants not only from India but also from Bangladesh, Madagascar, and Mozambique.

IIM Lucknow’s Centre for Marketing in Emerging Economies has undertaken an ambitious research project on Digitalization, Data and Social Development: Alternate Approaches to Learning, Livelihoods and Health Awareness, in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana & Uttar Pradesh.

IIM Lucknow has partnered with SIDBI to establish SIDBI Centre for Innovations in Financial Inclusion (SCIFI), with the objective of creating social impact by promoting financial inclusion led by FinTech initiatives.

The Chairman of Board of Governors of IIM Lucknow, Mr. N Chandrasekaran began by remembering the untimely demise of Dr. Ajit Prasad who took the institute to great heights. He remarked on the fact that the time has come to steer the Institute on to a much higher plane and make its place in the top global rankings. He discussed the importance on research, collaboration with innovative businesses, engagement with start-up ecosystem, innovation of new business models, encouraging world-class entrepreneurship in the institute and adopting relevant programmes for a better tomorrow.  The ceremony concluded with the recitation of the national anthem.

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