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| 14th
August 2010 / Times of India / Ahmedabad Edition |
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 IRMAs expansion plans: New schools, centres of excellence
Vadodara/Anand: Countrys premier rural management institute the Institute of Rural Management,Anand (IRMA), for the first time in its history is all set to expand its wings by starting new schools and centres of excellence.
While IRMA will continue leveraging upon its core strength and brand image to serve its classic audience the co-operatives, these new schools will create knowledge base for newer areas, including producer companies, public private partnerships and Panchayati Raj institutions, while the centres will come up in areas of food security,nutrition and rural poverty.
Plans regarding these new schools and centres were discussed during the two-day consultation that the institute had organised with 30 experts from diversified areas on The Challenges of Negotiating Indias Rural Transformation: Evolving strategies for IRMAs Response. It was the same discussion in which All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi had sprung a surprise with his presence recently.
We have envisaged an expansion plan to establish number of schools and centres.In next five years,the institute will have nearly five schools, which in turn will have one or two centres attached to it, IRMA chairman and eminent economist Y K Alagh told TOI on Friday. The conceptual plan is that these schools and centres will train people in newer fields which are important in emerging rural economy. For instance, a centre dedicated to the new generation co-operatives can train people and take up consulting programmes in that area.
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