INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT(IIM), AHMEDABAD, INDIA

Entrance to main complex

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF  MANAGEMENT(IIM), AHMEDABAD, INDIA

Luis Kahn Plaza during Convocation

Vikram Sarabhai Library

IIMA has evolved from being India's premier management institute to a notable international school of management in just four decades.

It all started with Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and a few spirited industrialists realising that agriculture, education, health, transportation, population control, energy and public administration were vital elements in a growing society, and that it was necessary to efficiently manage these industries.

    "The result was the creation of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1961 as an autonomous body with the active collaboration of the Government of India, Government of Gujarat and the industrial sectors."

It was evident that to have a vision was not enough. Effective governance and quality education were seen as critical aspects.

From the very start the founders introduced the concept of faculty governance: all members of the faculty play an important role in administering the diverse academic and non-academic activities of the Institute. The empowerment of the faculty has been the propelling force behind the high quality of learning experience at IIMA.

The Institute had initial collaboration with Harvard Business School. This collaboration greatly influenced the Institute's approach to education. Gradually, it emerged as a confluence of the best of Eastern and Western values.

 Mission:

IIMA's mission is to help India and other developing countries improve their managerial practices both in the private and in the public sectors, and adopt superior public policies. It seeks to do this through producing risk-taking leader-managers who will pioneer new managerial practices and set new standards; through producing teachers and researchers who will generate new ideas of International significance; and through purposeful consulting aimed at helping client organizations scale new heights.

Objectives:

    To provide learning facilities to men and women of exceptional caliber for pursuing careers in management or becoming teachers and researchers in different management fields.

    To promote knowledge through research, both applied and conceptual, relevant to management, and to disseminate such knowledge through publications.

    To participate in and contribute to the formulation of public policy, which would provide answers to questions of social importance.

    To enhance the decision-making skills and the administrative competence of practicing managers and assist organizations to solve their managerial problems by providing them with consulting services based on actual requirements.

    To collaborate with other institutions in India and abroad with a view to further professionalizing management education and assisting in institution building, in a meaningful manner.

The Institute conducts the following major programmes:

• Two-year Post-Graduate Programme in Management (equivalent to MBA)

• Two-year Post-Graduate Programme in Agri-business Management (equivalent to MBA)

• Fellow Programme in Management (equivalent to Ph.D.)

• One-year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX, equivalent to MBA)

• Faculty Development Programme for Teachers in Universities and Colleges

• Fellow Programme in Management
• (FPM)  
• Post-Graduate Programme in Management
• (PGP)
• Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management
• (PGP-ABM)       
• One Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives
• (PGPX)
• Post Graduate Programme in Public Management and Policy
• (PGP-PMP)        
• Faculty Development Programme
• (FDP)

Accommodation:

Kasturbhai Lalbhai Management Development Centre (KLMDC) provides an academic and learning environment for participants of the Management Development Programmes. Its location on the campus encourages and facilitates interaction between participants and the faculty. Participants can also take advantage of the Institute's library and computer facilities. Accommodation is provided in 64 air-conditioned furnished double rooms. There is a separate dining hall, a reading lounge, classrooms (with audio-visual and computer projector facilities), and a Computer Lab equipped with a PC LAN with Internet connectivity. Participants have access to campus facilities for outdoor games.

International Management Development Centre (IMDC) located on the IIMA New Campus, provides an academic and learning environment for participants of the Management Development Programmes. Single room air-conditioned accommodation with attached bathroom, TV with cable connection, small refrigerator and internet connectivity are provided in the room at the IMDC. There is a separate dining hall, a reading lounge, classrooms and auditorium (with audio-visual and computer projection facilities), syndicate rooms, a computer lab with LAN and Internet connectivity. Recreation facilities exist for indoor and outdoor games (Badminton, TT, Carrom, Chess, Volleyball and Cricket). IMDC’s proximity to the IIMA main campus encourages and facilitates interaction between participants and the faculty. Participants can also take advantage of the Institute’s library and computer facilities.

FACILITIES:

Classrooms

There are six classrooms and five seminar rooms in the teaching wing. This is in addition to the seminar and conference rooms in the faculty wings. To facilitate case discussions, each classroom is an amphitheater. There are sixty-five revolving seats, with each seat having the nametag of the student. All classrooms have network connectivity to facilitate presentations. The new campus will add 5 more classrooms, 12 seminar rooms and an auditorium.

Dormitories

As an alumni pointed out, ‘the dorm is like the Gaulish village in Astreix books which opens with a free for all but always ends with merrymaking. You always came back to the dorm where a part of you belonged and a part of which belonged to you’. There are 25 student dormitories with a total capacity to hold about 740 occupants. Apart from the dormitories there are separate housing facilities available for married candidates. The dorms have ten single rooms on each floor arranged around a stairway and a tearoom.

Sports Complex

               

Facilities for indoor/ outdoor games and recreation activities are available. Games such as Soccer, Cricket, Badminton, Lawn Tennis, Table tennis, Basketball, Volleyball and Hockey are very popular among the student community. Fitness conscious students can work out in the gymnasium or go for a jog around the scenic campus. For those who prefer to stay indoors, there is Chess, Carom or Bridge. During COMBOS - the Institute's intramural cultural fete - IIMA is a divided house where the dorms are split into three groups, and pitted against each other in literary, cultural and sports competitions.

Fitness Centre

Fitness CentreIIMA has a Fitness Centre located at Class room no. 324 on the Old Campus covering an area of 1740 square feet. The fitness centre has equipment for various stretching, floor and body-building exercises - tread mills, recumbent cycle, elliptical cycle, multigym, dumbells & plates,  weights, shoulder press, leg-pull , swift bike, leg extension, incline shoulder, cross trainers, double twisters, etc.

On an average 135 members take benefit of the fitness centre every month including staff, faculty and students under the guidance of able fitness trainer Mr. Kamlesh Parmar who has an experience of over 10 years in the field. The centre is open from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm with special batches for Ladies running from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon and 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm).

IIMA is planning to double the facilities and add more equipments to the fitness centre.

 Food

The Institute draws faculty, students and staff from all over India and the world. Creating a safe, palatable and responsive food service on campus is therefore a great challenge. A variety of facilities exist in the campus for catering to different groups i.e. long duration program students, staff, researchers and executive education program participants.

The Institute’s food offerings maintain the high quality on several parameters: quality of service, food, and hygiene. For long duration program participants, the warden and Student Affairs Officer as well as the elected student mess secretary along with mess committee is involved. In addition the institute has in-house experts, whose research interest in the field of food quality with training and expertise in public health has contributed greatly to creating acceptable standards across the institute’s various food joints.

Cafes:

TANSTAAFL CAFÉ

TANSTAAFL is a 24 hour open air café with a menu that is contemporary and elective enough to include ‘maggi noodles, to samosa, to pakodas, to dosas, to sandwiches, to pizzas! Juices, soft drinks, ice creams and chocolates make up the other part of the offering. Both vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian offerings are available to fuel the high energy needs of the legendary student appetites! Takeaways and delivery across the campus is also offered.

Launched from 1 June 2004, Café TANSTAAFL has an interesting story about how it got such a funky name:

In Robert Heinlein's science fiction novel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [1966], the Moon turns into a colony of the Earth. Loonies, as the people on the Moon used to call themselves, are exploited by the people on the Earth. Manuel, a computer engineer and protagonist of the story, tells fellow Loonies that unless they sacrifice something they cannot achieve freedom. In this context, he says his famous line, “There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TANSTAAFL)."

Later, Nobel laureate and economist, Milton Friedman, wrote a book [1975] by the same name, “There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch”

Evocative of IIMA’s ability to create learning at every opportunity, inspired Prof. Deodhar to christen the café TANSTAAFL: the caution built into the name, a clear warning to students that spending too much leisurely time at the 24-hour café may come at the cost of poor grades in classes.

FOOD KING

Situated in the new campus across the class room complex, Food King is the venture started by IIMA PGP student, Mr. Sharat Babu. The budding entrepreneur left his corporate job offer to indulge his passion and fulfill the mission of feeding the hungry.

It serves Indian and Chinese food, both vegetarian and non vegetarian.

Timings 10.00 AM to 2.00 AM

COFFEE EXPRESS

A Coffee Express outlet serving selection of coffee, tea and other beverages, shakes, sodas, etc. functions on the campus. The outlet is directly run by Café Coffee Day, a leading coffee chain in India. Limited snack options like sandwiches, burgers, cookies, cakes etc are also available.

Student Mess

The student mess is as the name suggests, exclusive to the students. Guests of students, faculty and visitors may also eat here intermittently. Vegetarian and non vegetarian meal plans are available on monthly basis. For shorter periods, coupons may be bought in advance or on the spot.

Offering three wholesome Indian meals and a high tea, the cuisine is an elective mix from across India.

Breakfast consists of continental as well as Indian foods. Eggs, toast, cornflakes, fresh fruit, tea, coffee or malt flavoured milk. And hot Indian snacks like stuffed parathas, upma, etc.

The basic format of the mail meals [Lunch & Dinner] conform to the Indian staple: Chappatis/Parathas/Puris [flat, unleavened breads], 2 curries[green Vegetables, Pulses], 1 Subzi [dry green Vegetable] Dal & Rasam [Lentil soups of the North Indian and South Indian cuisines respectively], Dahi [plain Yogurt], Salad, Papad[fried Crispies], Pickles, Rice.

The desert for Lunch consists of fresh fruit. Whereas, desert for dinner, would be any Indian variety, ice-cream and occasionally, pastries/cake.

Non-vegetarian fare differs only in that one extra non-vegetarian dish would be added to the vegetarian menu, available on specific days. Mostly, Chicken or Lamb cooked in the Indian style would be served. Occasionally, fish is also served.

In deference to the needs of our global students, lightly spiced or bland food is also available at every meal in the same elaborate menu! Students may also post special requests on the Institute’s intranet thru ebabble on messnb. The mess secretary, a student representative, will help facilitate the same.

Meals are cooked using the freshest possible ingredients which take care, to a large extent, of the hygiene factor. The Student Affairs Officer coordinates with the mess contractor to ensure up-keep of the premise. Occasionally, the campus doctor and members of welfare committee visit and eat in the student mess. No leftover food, or food preserved in freezers over a period of time is served.

Meal timetable:

Breakfast: 8-10.30 am

Lunch: 12.30 – 2.00 pm

High Tea: 4-5.15 pm

Dinner: 7.30 – 9 pm

ADDRESS:

Indian Institute of Management

Vastrapur,Ahmedabad 380015

Gujarat

INDIA

Tel: +91-79-66323456 / 26308357

Fax: +91-79-26306896