Second Batch of IIMC-DGR's Officer Training Programme Commences on April 1st

Second Batch of IIMC-DGR's Officer Training Programme Commences on April 1st

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Directorate General Resettlement (DGR), Ministry of Defense, Government of India, New Delhi, have entered into an agreement to launch the second batch of the six month programme for the training of the officers of Armed Forces who are about to retire.

The programme aims at delivering the required inputs on the managerial theories and practices and develops skills necessary to manage the corporate world. The officers, undergoing this intensive programme, will be trained in all-round management theories to combat the corporate warfare.

The programme is divided into three modules of seven weeks each and one of three weeks. During the twenty-four weeks, the participants shall study twenty-two courses made up of three hours sessions and will work on a project. They will study functional area subjects like Marketing Management, Financial Accounting, Manufacturing & Materials Management, Human Resource Management, along with the General Management inputs such as Organisational Behaviour, Legal Aspects of Management, Project Management and Strategic Management, to name a few. The programme will follow an interactive learning methodology - cases, interactive lectures in the form of discussions, and assignments will be extensively used to facilitate learning.

The first batch of this programme has successfully completed the programme and the participants have been placed in many companies all over India as well as abroad.

The institute plans to run two programmes of six months each once the infrastructure is ready.

The programme has been launched on 1st April 2008 at 12.00 noon in the presence of Maj. Gen. S. G. Chatterji, VSM, DGR, New Delhi, and Prof. Shekhar Chaudhuri, Director, IIM Calcutta. There are fifty-four participants (Army - 45, Air Force - 2, and Navy - 7) in this second programme who would be issued a Certificate in Business Management on the successful completion of the same.

The programme will be jointly coordinated by Prof. Prafulla Agnihotri, Prof. Vidyanand Jha, and Prof. Sushil Khanna.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Aloke Guin,
PRO,
IIM Calcutta.

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