IIM-A 's special course for the bureaucrats

Bangalore: The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is re-launching its post-graduate programme on Public Management Policy this is designed for bureaucrats and civil servants from the academic year 2012 reports chitra unnithan from times of India. The one-year full-time residential programme, aimed at creating a platform for dialogue in framing government policies was put on hold in 2009-10 for two academic sessions. A faculty member told TOI that the post-graduate program on Public Management Policy is likely to be revived from the next academic year. While there has not been any official communication yet, there are chances that the course may be offered from next year," Samir Barua, director, IIM-A, said, "The committee that reviewed the programme has submitted a report, which will be considered by the faculty and board before any decision is taken." A committee set up by the institute in 2010 has reviewed the entire package course. The fee of some students who participated in the program was partly funded by DoPT. Launched in 2007 as part of IIM-A's Memorandum of Understanding with the government department of personnel and training (DoPT). When PGP-PMP was launched, the fee was fixed at Rs 8 lakh for government-sponsored candidates. The institute raised the fees to Rs 12 lakh for 2008-09 batch and to Rs 20 lakh for the 2009-10 batch. But the proposal to review the fee for sponsored candidates was not accepted by the government, which insisted on staying at Rs 8 lakh, thus making it expensive for IIM-A. The faculty added that "The programme could not be renewed in 2010 as DoPT was not ready to accept the fees proposed by IIM-A for the programme. Apart from the course and fee structure, there were other reasons like high running costs and waning interest of the government. The government did not send or sponsor many officials who could influence decision making," 2007-08 batch of the course was attended by 33 students, of which 12 were government-sponsored candidates. The second batch of 2008-09 had 39 participants, of which 20 were sponsored and out of 30 participants for the 2009-10 batch, 19 were sponsored. To check the load and quality of the program content. The institute is reviewing its programme for executives (PGPX) officially.