IIM-B alumni to raise corpus

IIM Bangalore Alumni Association (IIMBA) is looking at setting up a separate corpus for the alumni association, as a part of their maiden initiative to boost networking among the alumni scattered across the country.

On the sidelines of the inaugaration of the Kolkata chapter of IIMBA meet, Rakesh Godhwani, head of IIMBA said, "We are looking at setting up a separate corpus for the alumni association which will be need based." The decided corpus will be used for infrastructural purposes, academic research programmes, student encouragement and improving the student visibility constituting to be the main focus points, added Godhwani.

Kolkata chapter of IIMBA, is the first initiative of the association outside Bangalore and new chapters will be rolled out in cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and also in New York, London and Singapore within the next few months.

Conducting talkshops would be one of their effort, in co ordinating the activities of various alumni present across the country.Campus reunions will also be organised that will help and encourage alumni visit the campus and share their views and perspective with the students.

Also present on the occasion, Pankaj Chandra, director of IIM-B said, "Alumni relations is extremely important for us and we are working towards linking our alumni, which is reflected with our new alumni office in the campus."

IIM-B is also adoting a two pronged vision, of looking and building leadership and also promoting hi tech entrepreneurship for the coming years within the students. By 2020, the institute is looking at building itself as a premere research institute, which will be globally recognised and also adopt various organisational and structural initiatives by getting the stakeholders related to the institute together, and also by expanding programmes by scaling up the student capacity from 850 to 1200, raising the student strength in post graduate programmes(PGP) and post graduate programmes in management(PGPM) courses from 270 and 30 to 500 and 60 respectively along with increasing fellow researchers from 15 to 35, within a span of five years and also adding an additional faculty if 40 and thus raising ot to 120 from 80, informed Chandra.

He also spoke about better compensation packages to be given to fellow researchers to rope in more of such students in a world which is more or less dominated by the management sector, admitted Chandra.