Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) is an autonomous institution and premier business school located in
Anand Gujarat, India with the mandate of contributing to the professional management of rural organizations. IRMA was founded with the belief, borne out by
Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 - 9 September 2012), known as the "Father of the White Revolution" in India, was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood, made dairy farming India's largest self-sustaining industry a ...
’s work in the dairy co-operatives which revolutionized the dairy industry in the country (
Operation Flood
Operation Flood, launched on 13 January 1970, was the world's largest dairy development program and a landmark project of India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world's larges ...
), that the key to effective
rural development
Rural development is the process of improving the quality life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas.
Rural development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of ...
is professional management. It is considered as the best business school in the Rural and Agricultural Business Management Sector of India.
The Institute was established with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Corporation, the
Government of India
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, the erstwhile Indian Dairy Corporation, the NDDB (
National Dairy Development Board
The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is a statutory body set up by an Act of the Parliament of India. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying of the Government of India. The main office is in Ana ...
) and the
Government of Gujarat
The Government of Gujarat, also known as Gujarat Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Gujarat and its 33 districts. It consists of an executive of the legislators appointed by the Governor of Gujarat, a judiciar ...
. IRMA campus was designed by the famous architect
Achyut Kanvinde
Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde (9 February 1916 – 28 December 2002) was an Indian architect who worked in functionalist approaches with elements of Brutalist architecture. He received the Padma Shri in 1974.
Early life and education
He was bor ...
.
IRMA provides management training, support and research facilities to students committed to rural development; in this process it has brought within its ambit several co-operatives, non-government organizations, government development agencies, international development organizations and funding agencies.
Over the years the convocation of IRMA is graced by National and International luminaries from the academic, cultural, spiritual, and political spheres. Former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi attended IRMA's first annual convocation in 1982.
History
Michael Halse, then a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) planning adviser with NDDB, was one of the members responsible for conceptualizing this new discipline of rural management. Another person involved with the institute was the organizational behavior academic Dr.
Kamla Chowdhry , who also served briefly as the director of the institute and played a key mentoring role in its formative years. The former director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Ravi J. Matthai
Ravi John Matthai (1927–1984) was an educationist and a professor and the first full-time Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is also the co-founder, along with Dr. K. Varghese, of Institute of Rural Management, Anand. ...
contributed; through his documented learning from the Jawaja experiment. Matthai stressed the need for a new type of management education, different from the conventional Indian Institute of Management one: for working on rural development problems.
The institute was initially budgeted as a center for management and consultancy for rural development, under the second phase of the
Operation Flood
Operation Flood, launched on 13 January 1970, was the world's largest dairy development program and a landmark project of India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world's larges ...
program. Under the chairmanship of Dr. Verghese Kurien, IRMA evolved quickly to enlarge its mandate to professionalize management of rural producers’ organizations and create a body of knowledge in the field of rural management.
One of the pioneering and senior faculty in the initial years was anthropologist and equity-feminist scholar
Leela Dube. One of her studies, through field work in five Southeast Asian countries, put the organization on the international social science research map.
Beginning with co-operatives funded by NDDB, IRMA has reached out to the rural sector through development organizations engaged with issues of rural life such as natural resource management (especially water and forests), rural health, local governance institution, livelihood, migration, micro finance, and deploying IT for rural areas.
Since inception, the focus of IRMA has been on strengthening the management capacities in non-governmental organizations and organizations that are controlled by users of the services (rather than the conventional capital investor-centered business corporate). IRMA claims that its branding and commitment to a unique field of management makes it unique among management institutes of India.
Academics
IRMA offers various full-time and part time postgraduate programmes, leading to an
MBA
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degree. It also offers diploma programmes.
Admissions
IRMA offers different academic programs and has admission processes and eligibility respectively. The selection process for admission in PGDM(RM), FPM(RM), RM(X) and MDPs. varies depending on the nature of program one opts for. IRMA accepts scores from common entrance exams like
CAT
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and
XAT. Other major aspects for admission are academic performance and work experience.
IRMA also conducts its Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interviews (PI) of selected candidates. If a candidate opts for selected offline mode for giving Personal Interview, she / he is given option of Anand, Bangalore, Delhi, Guwahati, and Kolkata.
Rankings
IRMA was ranked 55 in the Management category of the 2021 ranking of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). IRMA was ranked 5th Best B School in Chronicle India B- School Survey 2019, IRMA was ranked 5th best B-school among the top 75 private B-schools of India and 10th overall among the top 100 B-schools of India , as per Times B-School Survey 2019. IRMA Ranked 8th in UTD Top 10 Indian Business School Ranking for Research.
It was ranked 17 in ''
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s "Top 150 Private MBA Institutions" of 2020 ranking.
Dr. Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture
To commemorate the memory of the founder of the Institute, the annual "Dr. Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture" has been instituted from 2012: to be held on his birth anniversary. The first lecture in 2012 was delivered by
M. S. Swaminathan
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, plant geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Swaminathan is a global leader of the green revolution. He has been called the main archi ...
.
The second lecture in 2013 was delivered by
Vijay Shankar Vyas
Vijay Shankar Vyas (21 August 1931 – 12 September 2018) was a noted agricultural economist of India. He hailed from Pushkarna Brahmin community in Bikaner and authored six books. Vyas died on 12 September 2018.
Career
Vyas was the Director ...
. The third lecture in 2014 was delivered by the Governor of Reserve Bank of India,
Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Quote: "I am an Indian citizen. I have always b ...
.The fourth annual lecture in 2015 was delivered by the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India,
Arvind Subramanian
Arvind Subramanian is an Indian economist and the former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, having served from 16 October 2014 to 20 June 2018. Subramanian is currently a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International ...
on 21 November 2015. It was followed by
Vikram Singh Mehta in 2016, Dr. Ramesh Chand in 2017,
Amitabh Kant
Amitabh Kant (born 1 March 1956) was the second chief executive officer of NITI Aayog, a public policy think tank of the Government of India. He is a retired member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the central civil service of the Go ...
in 2018, Dr. P.S. Goel in 2019, Dr.
Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian in 2020 and
Arun Maira in 2021.
Campus
The campus is fully residential and equipped with student hostels, mess, lecture halls, seminar rooms, library, faculty and administrative offices, auditorium, executive training and development center, faculty and staff housing, dispensary, and other support facilities. The IRMA staff co-operative store caters to the residents’ daily necessities. Faculty and staff live in the campus quarters provided, thereby providing facilities for interaction with the participants beyond classrooms.
* IRMA Auditorium, with a seating capacity of 400, is used for major events of the institute and for entertainment. Movies are screened for the participants of programmes and the residents of the campus. It is used for musical concerts hosted by the Society for Promotion of Indian Culture and Music amongst Youth (SPIC-MACAY) and the cultural programs hosted by the students.
* The Students Activities Center (SAC) has a gym-cum-sports complex, with facilities for a workout, badminton and table tennis courts.
* The Students' Mess, with students as members is managed by students themselves, serves food to residential students of various academic programmes.
* A co-operative store on the campus is open in the evenings six days a week and provides all the items required by the residents on the campus. It is stocked with provisions and stationery.
* A campus dispensary supplies medication. The medical officer visits the campus for an hour every day, and a staff nurse resides on the campus to attend to medical emergencies.
Ravi J Matthai Library
The library is named after Prof. Ravi J Matthai, one of the founder members of the Institute and was formally inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, on March 22, 1986. The Library supports the mission of IRMA through the provision of information resources and services. The library provides the academic community with information for fulfilling research requirements, coursework assignments, and professional development. This is achieved through collection development, networking, electronic information retrieval, instruction in search strategy and assisted access to an array of resources and data.
Accommodation
The Executive Training and Development Center (ETDC) is equipped with 40 single-occupancy air-conditioned rooms, a dining hall, and a lounge. It has uninterrupted internet services through a 150-Mbps radio link. This accommodation facility is available for executive training programmes and conferences planned by the faculty.
Convocation
The annual convocation at IRMA is conducted in a most unique manner, reflecting the true Indian ethos and culture. Over the years, the convocation has been graced by national and international luminaries from the academic, cultural, spiritual and political spheres. in 2022,
Amit Shah, Hon'ble Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation, Government of India was the Chief Guest of the Convocation.
Notable faculty
*
Ravi J. Matthai
Ravi John Matthai (1927–1984) was an educationist and a professor and the first full-time Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is also the co-founder, along with Dr. K. Varghese, of Institute of Rural Management, Anand. ...
- Management education administrator, noted for establishing
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resourc ...
and
Institute of Rural Management, Anand.
*
Leela Dube - Anthropologist and equity-feminist scholar
*
Yoginder K Alagh
Yoginder K Alagh (14 February 1939 – 6 December 2022) was an Indian economist and Union Minister of Government of India. He was the Chairman of Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) from 2006 to 2012. He was the Chancellor of the Centra ...
- Noted Indian
economist
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The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...
, former
Union Minister
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of Government of India & ex-Chairman of IRMA.
*
Vivek Bhandari - Indian professor & ex-Director of IRMA.
*
Deep Joshi
Deep Joshi is an Indian social worker and NGO activist and a recipient of the Magsaysay award in 2009. He is recognised for his leadership in bringing professionalism to the NGO movement in India. He co-founded a non-profit organisation, Profe ...
- Indian
social worker , NGO activist and a recipient of the
Magsaysay award
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. Ex-Chairman of IRMA.
Notable alumni
*
Sanjay Ghose - Founder URMUL Rural Health Research and Development Trust and Charka Development Communication Network
* Dr. R.S. Sodhi - Managing Director, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (
AMUL
Anand Milk Union Limited (AMUL) is an Indian dairy state government cooperative society, based in Anand, Gujarat.
Formed in 1946, it is a cooperative brand managed by Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), which today i ...
)
*
Sankar Datta
Dr. Sankar Datta (born February 17, 1958), is an Indian academic and professional development worker. He has been engaged in rural livelihood promotion and support activities for more than three decades since the early 1980s. Most of his field ...
-
India
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n academic & professional development worker.
*
Vishal Narain - Academician , Researcher & Public Policy Analyst
*
Satish Babu
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(PRM3) - Director, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (
ICFOSS
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).
*
Raju Narisetti - Founder of
Mint (newspaper), Senior Vice-President, News Corporation
*
Sandeep Dikshit
Sandeep Dikshit (born 15 August 1964) is an Indian politician, development manager and educator. He is the son of former Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit. He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the East Delhi const ...
- Member of Parliament of 14th Lok Sabha and 15th Lok Sabha representing East Delhi
*
Daman Singh
Daman Singh is an Indian writer and daughter of Former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.
Personal life
She is married to Ashok Patnaik ( IPS Officer of 1983 batch) who was the CEO of the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) of Indi ...
- Indian writer and daughter of Former
Prime Minister of India,
Manmohan Singh.
*
Amir Ullah Khan - Indian economist. Professor at the
of the Government of Telangana.
*
G. V. L. Narasimha Rao
Guntupalli Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Rao is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament, representing the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Rao frequently appears on nationa ...
- National Spokesperson of
Bharatiya Janata Party
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*
Syed Safawi
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- Managing Director and Group CEO of VLCC , Ex-CEO of Viom Networks
*Gouthami - Recipient of
Cartier Women's Initiative Awards
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2010 & Founder of Travel Another India
*
Praveen Morchhale -
65th National Film Awards
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of India winner and UNESCO Gandhi Medal Winner film director-writer.
Widow of Silence, Walking With The Wind,
Barefoot to Goa)
*
Praveen Morchhale - National Award Winning Filmmaker (
Barefoot To Goa)
* Chitaroopa Palit
Narmada Bachao Andolan
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activist
References
External links
Official website
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Institute of Rural Management Anand
Business schools in Gujarat
Rural development organisations in India