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Alumnis of Rural Management

Rajshree, PGDRM 01

Project Manager, Reliance Foundation, BIJ project, Modasa Cluster, Gujarat.

Major Job responsibility includes facilitating villagers to form institutions and processes for development of their villages. In BIJ program, I am able to empathize with the situation of rural communities’. It gives me an opportunity to interact with rural communities, understanding them, living some part of me with them. 

My course in rural management at IIHMR prepared me for professional challenges in the rural development sector and taught me the values of centrality of community participation and ownership in rural development processes.

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Arvind Goutam, PGDRM 01

Technical Resource Person, Centre for Micro Finance, Jaipur

(Working in program support team to F-NGOs partners in MPoWeR  in Western Rajasthan )

Knowledge gained during my development education at Rural Management course at IIHMR enabled me for community facilitation and vision building exercise for an interventions in planting orchards. Together we managed to establish sustainable livelihood assets for the community. 

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Rittika Brahamchari, PGDRM 02

Research Officer in IIHMR Kolkata

Working in projects- Future Health Systems (FHS) funded by DFID and STEPS Centre’s (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) uncertainty project on climate change and livelihoods in the difficult inaccessible terrain of Sunderbans, West Bengal funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

The rural management education at IIHMR has been the backbone of my professional experience. Apart from developing my skills and competencies required in this field it has made me realize the importance of linking theoretical knowledge with practical experience in the field. 

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Aditya Sharma, PGDRM 02

Working as Trainee Officer at Foundation For Ecological Security (FES), Rajasthan. 

Working on Natural Resource Management with special emphasis on Commons, Ecological Restoration and Regeneration by involving community level democratic structures.

Education in rural management contributed very much in developing in-depth knowledge and provided me with glasses to see real perspective of rural development scenario. 

Sustainability resides in ownership and participation of community and to make it possible or to facilitate it, rural development professionals are really needed for effective implementation of rural development schemes. It is the duty of young minds to identify and bridge the increasing gap between rich and poor, India and Bharat and Rural and Urban.

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Rajesh Prasad, PGDRM 02

Programme Manager, Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society, Maharashtra

Job responsibilities include addressing issues of forest conservation and tribal livelihoods in Maharashtra 

Knowledge and perspective gained in the rural management course has been guiding my participation in interventions in challenging areas for ensuring conservation of forests and developing innovative livelihood solutions for tribal communities. 

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Deepali Solanki, PGDRM 02

Technical Expert at Gujarat State Watershed Management Authority, Gujarat

The insights and perspective gained from all we had been taught in PGDRM is very useful especially in project management and natural resource management.

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Scope of MBA in Rural Management at IIHMR

There is an increasing demand and scope for trained rural management professionals in the contemporary context of a rapidly transforming rural India. The Indian State has many flagship missions and programs focusing areas such as health, education, housing, water and sanitation, livelihoods and skill development to mention a few major ones. Most of these programmes at the centre and state level aim for the betterment of lives of rural communities. With the expansion of corporate social responsibility among companies, both private and public sector, there has been a widening of the space of CSR action contributing to rural renewal and economic resurgence for inclusive human development. The opening up of rural markets for FDI has created possibilities for backward and forward linkages of farmer producer companies / cooperatives with national and multi nationals companies.

MBA in Rural Management at IIHMR equips you with the required skill set honed by a pro poor perspective to contribute meaningfully to diverse processes associated with planning, implementing and monitoring programmes for fulfilling basic entitlements like health, nutrition, education, building rural livelihoods, etc. Rural Management professionals get opportunity to carve satisfying careers in contributing to infrastructure development, better integration of rural areas and communities with markets, promoting equitable use of natural resources and enhancing sustainable agriculture and livestock production. 

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Careers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for MBA in Rural Management

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) refers to the use of computers, mobile, television, email, radio, computer software and other audio-visual systems which enable users to access, store, transmit and manipulate information electronically in a digital form. 

In a fast globalizing world ICT’s are creating new ways of communicating, doing business, and delivering services. Several e-governance projects initiated by the Indian state attempt to improve the reach, enhance the base, minimize the processing costs for increasing transparency and contributing to efficient and accountable functioning of several govt. line departments.

Some of the successful ICT projects in India include Gyandoot, ITC e-Choupal, HP iCommunity. They have successfully worked with rural communities to develop innovative use of information technology for successful setting of agro business supply and marketing chains, dissemination of vital information for improving agriculture, better and affordable health and education services, etc.

There is a growing demand for Rural Management professionals for implementation of ICTs in rural areas. They could act as 'techno-catalytic' resources and facilitate rural masses for better connectivity with outside world to stimulate sustainable economic growth, improve service delivery, promote good governance and social accountability.

MBA in Rural Management at IIHMR offers courses that develop the requisite computer skills, analytical aptitude and knowledge base to take up the challenges of positive rural transformation.

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Pedagogy of MBA in Rural Management, IIHMR, Jaipur

MBA in Rural Management at IIHMR is a course that seeks to carve a middle ground between conventional management education and development studies. Classroom teaching as well field based learning are accorded equal importance throughout the roll out of the curriculum over two years.  Courses offered are grouped under four categories-Foundational, Functional, Integrative and Development Practice.  

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The core of pedagogy seeks to balance analytical, professional, and experiential learning with the inspiration to act progressively in different spheres of life to truly impact life at the grassroots level necessary for the greater common good of countless people negotiating India’s “rural-urban continuum. Students are equipped to analyse, reflect, plan and execute sustainable development strategies in rural areas. 

The course enables students to apply rigor and professionalism towards challenging issues of rural transformation in sectors as diverse as basic services like health, education, rural livelihoods, water security and sanitation by applying a judicious mix of traditional knowledge of communities with new appropriate technologies available in ICTs or renewable energy. One of the core objectives of the pedagogy is to inculcate values of active and responsible citizenship and humanist empathy for rural communities.   

Careers in Corporate Social Responsibility for MBAs in Rural Management

In India philanthropy for establishing schools and colleges or hospitals has been the main driving force behind CSR initiatives. With the state outlining the recent policy framework for mandatory CSR action by companies, both private and public sector, the CSR sector in India is poised at an expansion making it an important stakeholder in positive rural transformation. Although it is difficult to estimate the total amount available, CSR funds available in the years to come would be around 10,000 crore rupees. 

CSR operations of most organizations in India are either directly operational initiatives in the rural areas or support rural development projects through grants and endowments. There has been a widening of interest to adopt process oriented approaches to rural development that have yielded good results. Some of the important CSR organizations in private and public sector that have been making an impact in the rural development are Coal India, ONGC, State Bank of India, Allied Trusts of Tatas, Azim Premji Foundation, Reliance Foundation, Cairn Energy, GMR, etc. Program interventions like environmental sustainability, skill enhancement, interventions aimed at financial inclusion and entrepreneurship development, sustainable agriculture are becoming popular. Even with respect to sectors like rural education and health services, traditional favorites of business philanthropy, there has been an encouraging openness to adopt community based and long term approaches to rural development.

An MBA in Rural Management at IIHMR prepares you for challenging yet satisfying careers for youth ignited by the urge to do something meaningful for society at large, to play a small but positive role in meaningful rural transformation in India.

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Invitation - 3rd Udai Pareek Memorial Lecture on 

"Inventing a Better Future: Challenging and Engaging Impossibility",

JAN 21, 2014

Admission - PhD in Hospital and Health Management 2014-16

Regional Training of State Level Master Trainers (SLMTs) on Revised Management Information System in Integrated Child Development Scheme at IIHMR Jaipur from January 9th to 11th

• A Regional Training of State Level Master Trainers (SLMTs) on Revised Management Information System (MIS) in Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) was conducted at IIHMR Jaipur from 9th – 11th January 2013. The training was organized by Ministry of Women & Child Development; Govt. of India with support of Technical Assistance Agency, IDA assisted ICDS System Strengthening & Nutrition Improvement Project (ISSNIP). The participating states included Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, J & K, Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh. 

• An extensive revision of the Management Information System (MIS) in ICDS Programme, particularly the registers and reports used at the Anganwadi Centre (AWC) and block levels was undertaken by the Government of India. These have since been finalized and are now ready for roll-out across the country. The current training was the last in series of four conducted across the country with the objective of creating state level master trainers to impart the training on new MIS in their respective states to execute the roll out.

Students Rate Highly Learning Culture at IIHMR

Organization culture of the education and research institutions is critical for their image and performance.  A survey of IIHMR students’ perceptions on core values or ethos viz, openness, confrontation, trust, authenticity, proaction, autonomy, collaboration and experimentation was conducted.  Over 100 students of the postgraduate program in hospital and health management, and pharmaceutical management were administered an HRD instrument, OCTAPACE. The students reported that IIHMR was very high core values of organizational culture. The mean scores for openness were 20% higher than standard normal mean scores based on the other organizations. So were the mean scores on other important attributes such as Trust, and Proaction. Collaboration and Experimentation were other core values which achieved more than normal standard mean scores. Confrontation and Authenticity, the other core values which were as good as standard mean scores.

The students felt reported that faculty was trustworthy and competent that allowed confronting them with straight and tough questioning. The students appreciated the culture of openness and trust between them and the faculty. Experimenting with innovative approaches of teaching ensured incorporating contemporary knowledge and skills.

These core values a culture have enable IIHMR reach the top of the ranking in hospital and health management education in India, and recognition at the international levels.

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Students of JHSPH/IIHMR MPH cohort-1 Visit Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Students of JHSPH/IIHMR MPH cohort-1 along with two of the faculty members Dr. Tanjul Saxena and Dr. Monika Choudhary, are attending the orientation of Master of Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA from January 2nd till January 20th, 2014. Upon reaching there, the students were welcomed by Dr. Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, the Dean of JHSPH. The students are attending the programme with other students of the department of International Health at JHSPH.

The primary purpose of the visit of the students of IIHMR to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is to attend a course of 4 credit points in the domain of Problem Solving in Public Health. The sessions for the same have been arranged for the students.

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