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The Adani group announced the launch of the Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management (AIIM) at Navrangpura in Ahmedabad with a one-year (fulltime) residential Post Graduate Programme in Infrastructure Development. The programme is scheduled to start in September 2009. The minimum age for the candidates will have to be 25 years; a bachelor’s degree in any discipline and some relevant work experience being a requirement. Admissions will be through G-MAT and admissions will start in April 2009. Even candidates who have appeared for CAT after January 1, 2006 will be permissible.
Bakul Dholakia, Vice-Chairman/Director, AIIM, said: “There is no B-school in the country that offers a specialisation course. Our aim is to train a set of specialised managers who can cater to the huge infrastructure management market. Apart from a large number of good managers required for an ever-increasing number of government and private ventures associated with infrastructure, there is also a requirement for a lot of research to be done in this area. The institute will be helpful for infrastructure development in the country.”
The institute will be run by a set of visiting faculty to begin with, while permanent faculty members will be recruited after two years. The visiting faculty include Prof. C Raghuram (Indian Railways; Chair Professor, IIM-A), Indira Parikh (president, Foundation for Liberal and Management Foundation), Saurabh Dixit (Group president, Adani Group) and Ameet Desai (Executive Director, Mundra Port and SEZ), among others.
The one-year course is meant to focus on three key areas; transportation (roads, highways, railways, ports, shipping and civil aviation), energy (power, petrol, nuclear energy, gas and energy exploration) as well as real estate (development of integrated townships) and Special Economic Zones. The programme fee for the inaugural batch has been fixed at Rs 10 lakh apart from Rs 2.25 lakh for an international visit that is part of the curriculum. The admissions will be conducted in two cycles: once in February and again in April 2009 for the September batch.
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* The institute will be run by a set of visiting faculty to begin with, while permanent faculty members will be recruited after two years.
* The programme fee for the inaugural batch has been fixed at Rs 10 lakh apart from Rs 2.25 lakh for an international visit that is part of the curriculum.
* The admissions will be conducted in two cycles: once in February and again in April 2009 for the September batch.
