The Indian Institute of Plantation Management (IIPM), Bangalore, India, is India's apex educational institution set up by the government of India to provide research, training and education in the agricultural sector, a sector that employs almost half of India's workforce. The Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, had set up a core group in 1990 with the primary objective of overlooking the modalities of setting up an institution providing management education in the plantation sector. After the acceptance of the core group's recommendations , IIPM was set up in 1993. It is registered under the Karnataka Society Registration Act. According to IIPM, it now gets sponsorships from the plantation sector as well as the Commodity Boards (Coffee Board, Tea Board, Rubber Board, Spices Board and other plantation associations).[1][2][3][4]
Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore is an exclusive, sectoral school of management. It is based on five foundational concepts or principles that define its scope of activities. It is the only B-school of its kind in Asia.
The foundational concepts on which the institute is based on are as follows:
Strategic Think Ahead Forum
Creation of Enlightened leadership
Continuing Development of the "BEST" managers
Action Based Research
Intellectual Self-Reliance & Enhancement of Intellectual Capital
Description :
Realizing the potentialities and needs of modernization of the plantation sector through management education and training, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India constituted a core group in 1990 to set up a strategic institution of management education in the plantation sector. Accordingly a blue-print for the Indian Institute of Plantation Management, (IIPM) Bangalore was prepared.... This blue-print envisaged the Institute as a centre of excellence, to act as a think tank and an intellectual resource base for the plantation sector. It also envisaged the Institute as an exclusive sectoral school of management based on a new model intensive institute-industry interaction. After the acceptance of the blueprint by the Government, a steering committee of the Ministry of Commerce provided the initial thrust for setting up the Institute. In November 1993, the Institute was registered as an autonomous educational institution of higher learning, under the Karnataka Society Registration Act. It is jointly sponsored by the plantation sector and the Commodity Boards viz. Coffee Board, Tea Board, Rubber Board, Spices Board and Plantation Associations, viz. UPASI and Indian Tea Association (ITA).
The Institute is today a centre of excellence which acts as a think tank and an intellectual resource base for the plantation and associated agri-business sector. It is an exclusive sectoral school of management based on a new model of intensive institute-industry interaction
Institute is actively supported by the Industry through its uniquely designed Faculty Finance Support Scheme. Commodity Boards and several leading corporates have instituted chairs at the Institute. Currently, the chairs have been instituted by Tata Tea Limited, Goodricke Group Limited, WIlliamson Magor Group and Tata Coffee Limited. In return, Institute provides intellectual support to the Industry through its research, brainstorming workshops and seminars etc.
Mission :
To meet the future talent requirements, Institute offers a long duration course, viz., Post Graduate Diploma in Agri-Business & Plantation Management (PGD-ABPM).
To fulfill its role as a think tank and intellectual support base, institute conducts interactive brainstorming workshops and seminars on themes of importance and relevance for the plantation and associated agri-business sector.
Institute conducts Short Term Executive Programmes (STEPs) for the professional managers, owner managers and officials of Commodity Boards. These programmes are designed to provide new techniques for effective handling of managerial and operational issues.
Institute undertakes action based research with a view to field test the ideas and concepts developed at the Institute.
Through its Writers' Forum, Institute encourages the practitioners to contribute towards development of the experience based knowledge for enhancing the intellectual capital.
Institute undertakes consultancy assignments in policy, strategic, implementational and operational issues of relevance to the plantation and associated agri-business sector.
Institute participates in inter institutional programmes for exchange of scholars. In collaboration with other leading institutions it also offers facilities for the post-doctoral work.
Link:http://www.iipmb.edu.in/