Times of India: Vadodara/Anand:
Sunday, April 13, 2014.
Institute of
Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), country's premier rural management institute,
will host its 33rd annual convocation on April 16, where social activist and
founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangthan Aruna Roy will be the chief guest.
Roy, the
Ramon Magsaysay award winner who had campaign successfully for Right to
Information (RTI), will deliver the convocation address. IRMA's chairman Deep
Joshi along with the board of governors, faculty and graduating students of
IRMA will participate part in the convocation.
The
institute's flagship - Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDRM) - will
be awarded to 119 students, while six students will receive their doctoral
degrees for the fellow programme in rural management (FPRM) during the
convocation ceremony. Vasanthi Memorial Gold Medal will be awarded to the
topper of 33rd batch of PGDRM. Recently, IRMA had concluded its placement
process in which it achieved 100 per cent placements. For the 2012-13 batch of
PGDRM, 75 recruiters had come offering 234 jobs to the budding rural managers.
The institute
witnessed the highest salary package offered to the young graduates increasing
by almost six per cent. Against 2013, when the highest salary package offered
was Rs 13 lakh per annum, in the 2014 placement season, the highest package
offered was Rs 19 lakh per annum. The median salary of the graduating batch is
close to Rs 8 lakh per annum, a little higher than the previous year, when the
average salary was Rs 7.09 per annum.
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