IRMA Alumni Association, Hyderabad Chapter

IRMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Hyderabad Chapter

About IRMA
Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) is an autonomous institution with the mandate of contributing to professional management of rural organisations. It was founded in 1979 at the initiative of the National Dairy Development Board and, with the support of Government of India, Government of Gujarat and Swiss Development Co-operation. Eversince inception IRMA has been working closely with Co-operatives, NGOs, Governments, National and International agencies.

IRMA Alumni Association
The graduates of the two year programme have an Alumni Association, which maintains close contact with the Institute. The Alumni Association maintains its own homepage on the net and has various chapters all around the country and in some other parts of the world. The Alumni bring out a bi-monthly newsletter CONTACT.

Hyderabad Chapter
The Hyderabad chapter of IAA meets every 2 months at IDRBT. Dr V P Gulati (Director, IDRBT) is the host of the alumni meets. Hyderabad chapter has approximately 50 alumni, of which 38 members have been regular participants for the alumni meets.

Other Chapters
* Delhi Chapter
On this home page, IRMA Alumni Association Delhi Chapter will be introduced and keep everyone updated of the types of activities it is involved in.
* Mumbai Chapter
On this home page, all IAA chapters are linked using interesting images.
* Bangalore Chapter
The Bangalore chapter of IAA has approximately 65 members.
* Ahemdabad Chapter
The Ahemdabad chapter of IAA.
* US Chapter
IRMANs in the USA & Guidance to higher studies in the USA.

Relevant Links:

* IRMA is in the Superleague of Indian business schools for 2nd successive year -2004 AIMA Survey
Click here to read more about the latest (Business Standard, 4th September 2004) AIMA Survey on Top Indian B-Schools survey. IRMA among the 13 Superleague Bschools in India.

* IRMA features among the Top 10 Indian Business Schools (Cosmode - Business World latest survey of India’s B-schools)
Click here to read more about the latest (September 2004) BusinessWorld's B-School survey. IRMA jumps 9 ranks from 2003 to be the 8th Best B-School in India.

* IRMA features among the Top 10 Indian Business Schools (All India Management Association’s latest comprehensive survey of India’s B-schools)
Click here to read more about the latest (January 2003) AIMA's B-School survey.

* IRMA Ranks # 5 among Indian Business Schools only after 4 IIMs
Click here to read more about the Business Today survey.

* IRMA: A Fairy Tale.
It is an unlikely candidate for one of the top slots, but the rural management institute ranks an astonishing No. 5 on the BT B-school scoreboard. Not without reason though.

* IRMA (Insitute of Rural Management) official site
Click here to reach official website of IRMA.

* IRMA Alumni Association official site
Click here to reach official website of IRMA Alumni Association.

* Another IRMA Alumni Association site
Click here to reach another website of IRMA Alumni Association.

* Intranet - IAA, Hyderbad Chapter
This intranet provides for uploading documents, having online forums based on interests, schedule events, sending invitations through emails etc. Contact Anant G Wadkar, Webmaster & Designer for the password & procedure to enter this intranet.

* IRMA Alumni Association official newsgroup at onelist.com
Click here for subscribing to IAA's official newsgroup (onelist.com) and get the latest happenings with IRMA Alumni worldwide.

* IRMA Alumni Association official newsgroup at egroups.com
Click here for subscribing to IAA's official newsgroup (egroups.com) and get the latest happenings with IRMA Alumni worldwide.

* IRMA Alumni Wiki Web (discussion board) at tangentially.com
Click here for subscribing & participating in the discussion board at Tangentially.com and interact with the IRMA Alumni worldwide.

* PRM 1992-94 web site
This is the coolest Alumni site I have ever seen created by an IRMA alumnus. A must visit site to understand what I am saying. Its a class apart! A site created and maintained by Ashim Dey of the same batch.

* PRM 1983-85 web site
Welcome to the memory page of PRM 83-85. The memories of those days are too wonderful to forget and this site attempts to recreate some of the magic that was PRM 83-85. You can also send in your pictures to the contact email. Only please ensure that the picture is not more than 60 KB in size and in the .JPG format. HAPPY VIEWING !!!!!!

Alumni member (individual) homepages/ sites links:
* Ganesh N. Prabhu (PRM 87-89)
* Anant G Wadkar (PRM 93-95)
* Pankaj Shukla (PRM 96-98)

Please email your personal web-site / homepage URLs to Anant G. Wadkar for linking from this section.