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IIM Calcutta to train soldiers
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) and Directorate General Resettlement (DGR), ministry of defense, government of India, New Delhi, have entered into an agreement to launch the second batch of six month- programme for training the officers of Armed forces who are about to retire.
The programme would aim at delivering the required inputs on the managerial theories and practices and develop skills necessary to manage the corporate world. The officers undergoing this intensive programme will be trained in all-round management theories.
The programme is divided into three modules of seven weeks each and one of three weeks.
The first batch of this programme has successfully completed the programme and the participants have been placed in many companies all over India as well as abroad.
IIMC plans to run two programmes of six months each once the infrastructure is ready.
The programme will be launched on April 1 in the presence of Maj Gen S G Chatterji, VSM, DGR, New Delhi and Shekhar Chaudhuri, Director, IIM Calcutta. There are Fifty-four participants (Army = 45, Air Force = 2, and Navy = 7) in this second programme who would be issued a Certificate in Business Management on the successful completion of the same.
The programme will be jointly coordinated by Prof Prafulla Agnihotri, Prof Vidyanand Jha, and Prof Sushil Khanna.
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