IIM Calcutta Restructures Its PGP Curriculum

IIM Calcutta Restructures Its PGP Curriculum

In accordance with the decision of the Academic Council of IIM Calcutta, the erstwhile academic groups comprising Environment, Sociology and Regional Development have been merged into one group named Public Policy & Management.

It is also decided by the Academic Council that all the faculty members of the three erstwhile academic groups and the Centre for Development & Environment Policy would become members of the newly formed group. Prof. Manish Thakur would be the Group Coordinator.

The objectives, areas of concentration and courses being or proposed to be offered by the Public Policy & Management Group, as discussed in a meeting of the Academic Council held recently, are: -

The Public Policy and Management (PPM) Group at IIM Calcutta, a diverse multi-disciplinary group of active researchers and teachers, contributes to the making of future managers at one of the best management schools in the Asia-Pacific Region. Members of the group address challenges of policy innovation, governance for public service delivery, relationship between government and industry, and try to influence public policy through high quality academic research and consultancy for policy analysis and programme evaluation.
The Group's faculty are deeply involved in shaping the understanding of key contemporary debates in public management, with specific focus on Management of Institutions for Urban & Rural Development, Business Solutions for Poverty Alleviation, Environment & Sustainable Energy Policy, Education Management, Healthcare Policy & Management, International Geopolitics, Legal Aspects of Business, Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructural & Social Development, Intellectual Property Rights, Management of NGOs, and Citizen Engagement & Emerging Models of Shared Governance.
The Group offers core courses in Indian Economic & Political History, Indian Social Structure, Indian Legal System, and Environment & Development. The Group offers a range of inter-disciplinary elective courses in the areas of Politics of Development, Country Risk Analysis, Urban Management, seminar on Entrepreneurship, seminar on Development Problems, Social Issues & Social Policy, Rural Development & Social Change, Rural Markets & Agrarian Structure, and Public Systems Management. Members also work closely with other groups of the Institute in offering courses in areas like Information & Communication Technology for Development and e-Governance (offered jointly with MIS).

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Aloke Guin,
PRO,
IIM Calcutta.

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