Quality pat: Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna

Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna (CIMP) would be awarded the International Arch of Europe (IAE) trophy for its overall quality and excellence.

Europe-based Business Initiative Directions (BID), a private organisation having members from 118 countries, would give the award.

CIMP director, V. Mukunda Das will receive the award in Frankfurt, Germany, on April 28.

The IAE selection committee has designated the companies and organisations, which would be awarded in 2013. For the past 10 months, the members of the IAE attended annual congresses in different parts of the world to select organisations on the parameters of overall quality and excellence. CIMP would get the award in the “Total Quality Management” category.

“The growth and progress made by the institute in various sectors like academic and placements, research, papers presented by faculty of the institute at international organisations and social responsibility has fetched the institute the coveted award,” Das said.

The CIMP would be the first institution in Bihar and also the first educational institution in India to receive the award.

Prior to this, many organisations like the National Thermal Power Corporation have received the award.

The director said: “It is a great achievement for us that despite reserving 50 per cent seats for students belonging to the deprived section of the society (according to the state government norms), we provide 100 per cent placement to our students.”

Apart from good placements, the institution has widely contributed in carrying out research activities. A few research works carried out by the faculty of CIMP, include a paper on rural marketing conduced by director Das on “Rural India is emerging as biggest market in the world next to China” and research on green economics by professor S. Dinda.

Das had carried out the research in various districts of Bihar and the paper was presented at Stockholm University, Sweden.

The CIMP also has to its credit the record of publishing more than 60 papers on various topics carried out by faculty members in different international conferences. Sayan Banerjee, a professor at CIMP, who would present a paper on organisational theory next month at Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada), said: “As a management module, the CIMP encourages its faculty members to carry out research and also gives the opportunity to present papers on various topics at international forums.”

Moreover, another important area that has helped the CIMP get the coveted award is responsibility towards the society. The CIMP administration runs a body called Beautiful Minds, where a few faculty members of the institute impart education to slum children.

“Children from slums get free education. A few of our faculty members are solely deputed for this purpose,” Das said.