Institute of Rural Management Anand

Former Prime Minister - Indira Gandhi , Rajiv Gandhi , Atal Bihari Vajpayee & Manmohan Singh visited IRMA to attend the Annual Convocation.

Michael Halse, then a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) planning adviser with NDDB,[6][7] was one of the members responsible for conceptualizing this new discipline of rural management.[8] Another person involved with the institute was the organizational behavior academic Dr. Kamala Chowdhary,[9][10][11] who also served briefly as the director of the institute and played a key mentoring role in its formative years.[12] The former director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Ravi J. Matthai contributed; through his documented learning from the Jawaja experiment.[13] Matthai stressed the need for a new type of management education, different from the conventional Indian Institute of Management one: for working on rural development problems.[14]

The institute was initially budgeted as a center for management and consultancy for rural development, under the second phase of the Operation Flood program. Under the chairmanship of Dr. Verghese Kurien, IRMA evolved quickly to enlarge its mandate to professionalize management of rural producers’ organisations and create a body of knowledge in the field of rural management.

Infrastructure of IRMA , Anand

One of the pioneering and senior faculty in the initial years was anthropologist and equity-feminist scholar Leela Dube. One of her studies, through field work in five Southeast Asian countries, put the organisation on the international social science research map.[15][16]

Beginning with co-operatives funded by NDDB, IRMA has reached out to the rural sector through development organizations engaged with issues of rural life such as natural resource management (especially water and forests), rural health, local governance institution, livelihood, migration, micro finance, and deploying IT for rural areas.

Since inception, the focus of IRMA has been on strengthening the management capacities in non-governmental organisations and organisations that are controlled by users of the services (rather than the conventional capital investor-centered business corporate). IRMA claims that its branding and commitment to a unique field of management makes it unique among management institutes of India.[17]

IRMA was ranked 5th Best B School in Chronicle India B- School Survey 2019,[20] IRMA was ranked 5th best B-school among the top 75 private B-schools of India and 10th overall among the top 100 B-schools of India , as per Times B-School Survey 2019.[21] IRMA Ranked 8th in UTD Top 10 Indian Business School Ranking for Research.[22] The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked it 72 among management colleges in 2020.[18] It was ranked 17 in Outlook's "Top 150 Private MBA Institutions" of 2020 ranking.[19]

Dr.Verghese Kurien , Founder of IRMA , Anand

To commemorate the memory of the founder of the Institute, an annual Dr. Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture, has been instituted from 2012: to be held on his birth anniversary. The first lecture in 2012 was delivered by M. S. Swaminathan. The second lecture in 2013 was delivered by Vijay Shankar Vyas. The third lecture in 2014 was delivered by the Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan. The fourth annual lecture in 2015 was delivered by the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, Arvind Subramanian on 21 November 2015.

Carillon Chimes in IRMA , Anand campus.

The campus is fully residential and equipped with student hostels, mess, lecture halls, seminar rooms, library, faculty and administrative offices, auditorium, executive training and development centre, faculty and staff housing, dispensary, and other support facilities. The IRMA staff co-operative store caters to the residents’ daily necessities. Faculty and staff live in the campus quarters provided, thereby providing facilities for interaction with the participants beyond classrooms.

• The Ravi J Mathai Library supports the mission of IRMA through the provision of information resources and services. The library provides the academic community with information for fulfilling research requirements, coursework assignments, and professional development. This is achieved through collection development, networking, electronic information retrieval, instruction in search strategy and assisted access to an array of resources and data.
• Executive Training and Development Centre (ETDC), where the executive training programs and seminars are held, has 35 single-occupancy air-conditioned rooms, four suites, a dining hall, a lounge, conference and syndicate rooms with audio-visual equipment and a computer laboratory which is networked with the institute's main computer center. This facility is available for executive training programmes and conferences planned by the faculty.
• IRMA Auditorium, with a seating capacity of 400, is used for major events of the institute and for entertainment. Movies are screened for the participants of programs and the residents of the campus. It is used for musical concerts hosted by the Society for Promotion of Indian Culture and Music amongst Youth (SPIC-MACAY) and the cultural programs hosted by the students.
• The Students Activities Center (SAC) has a gym-cum-sports complex, with facilities for a workout, badminton and table tennis courts.
• Students' Co-operative Mess, With PRM participants as members this is managed by students themselves, serves food to residential students of various academic programs.[23]

A co-operative store on the campus is open in the evenings six days a week and provides all the items required by the residents on the campus. It is stocked with provisions and stationery.

A campus dispensary supplies medication. The medical officer visits the campus for an hour every day, and a staff nurse resides on the campus to attend to medical emergencies.

Campus Facilities of IRMA Anand

• Ravi J. Matthai - Management education administrator, noted for establishing Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Institute of Rural Management, Anand.
• Leela Dube - Anthropologist and equity-feminist scholar
• Yoginder K Alagh - Noted Indian economist, former Union Minister of Government of India & ex-Chairman of IRMA.
• Vivek Bhandari - Indian professor & ex-Director of IRMA.
• Deep Joshi - Indian social worker , NGO activist and a recipient of the Magsaysay award. Ex-Chairman of IRMA.

• Sanjay Ghose - Founder URMUL Rural Health Research and Development Trust and Charka Development Communication Network[24]
• Sankar Datta[25][26] - Indian academic & professional development worker.
• Vishal Narain - Academician , Researcher & Public Policy Analyst
• Satish Babu (PRM3) - Director, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS).[27][28]
• Raju Narisetti - Founder of Mint (newspaper), Senior Vice-President, News Corporation[29][30]
• Sandeep Dikshit - Member of Parliament of 14th Lok Sabha and 15th Lok Sabha representing East Delhi[31][32]
• Daman Singh - Indian writer and daughter of Former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.
• Amir Ullah Khan - Indian economist. Professor at the Dr. Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute of Telangana of the Government of Telangana.[33]
• G. V. L. Narasimha Rao - National Spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party[34]
• Syed Safawi - Managing Director and Group CEO of VLCC , Ex-CEO of Viom Networks
• Gouthami (entrepreneur) - Recipient of Cartier Women's Initiative Awards 2010 & Founder of Travel Another India
• Praveen Morchhale - 65th National Film Awards of India winner and UNESCO Gandhi Medal Winner film director-writer. Widow of Silence, Walking With The Wind, Barefoot to Goa)
• Alkesh Kumar Sharma - Managing Director of Kochi Metro Rail Ltd & CEO of Cochin Smart Mission Limited.
• R.S. Sodhi - Managing Director, GCMMF (AMUL)
• C.P. Mohan- Director, ESAF Small Finance Bank.
• Sanjay Panigrahi - CCO, President, Pidlite Industries Limited
• Ajay Desai - Senior President & CFO, Yes Bank
• Angshu Mallick - Chief Operating Officer, Adani Wilmar
• Andy Mukherjee - Columnist, Bloomberg
• Praveen Morchhale - National Award Winning Filmmaker ( Barefoot To Goa)
• Sukhwinder Arora - Director, Arora Associates, UK
• Namita Lal - Managing Director, Global Head Payments, Collections at Standard Chartered
• Anmol Sherpa - Executive Director, Global Business Services, Nielsen Corporation
• Manju George - Global Leadership Fellow, World Economic Forum, Geneva
• Milan Wahi - Managing Director, Lotte India Corporation
• Nayanu Renu Kumar - Global Policy Manager, Airbnb Experiences
• Ashutosh Chandra - Group Director Government Affairs and Public Policy, Microsoft India
• Dr KK Upadhyay - Corporate Social Responsibility at Federation of Indian Chambers of commerce and industry
• Sivakumar Surampudi - Division Chief Executive, ITC of Agri Business Division, Vice chairman of ITC (Man Behind E-Choupal)
• Ms. Rajashree Ramakrishnan - CMO, Tata Consultancy Services [35]

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