PATNA: Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Limited ( GCMMF), Anand, managing director (MD) R S Sodhi on Sunday said that the Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna (CIMP) is an institution with considerable achievements to its credit.
Delivering the convocation address on the occasion of the second annual convocation of the CIMP, Sodhi said that there are some striking parallels between the CIMP and his organization with its brand, Amul. He said that both the organizations were established by great visionary leaders.
“While Dr Verghese Kurien triggered a socio-economic revolution in rural India 60 years ago, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar transformed the face of modern Bihar and inspired the creation of CIMP as a world class business school designed to enrich the management education profile of the state and to focus on developmental issues, specially pertaining to eastern part of the country,” Sodhi said.
He said that in this era of globalization, knowledge of international business practices is a must and so is the ability to operate in a globally inter-linked environment. The CIMP imparts a global outlook to its students enabling them to contribute meaningfully towards leading the Indian economy to higher levels of growth, he pointed out.
In his message, Nitish said that the CIMP is ranked among top 20 institutions in India in the field of economic researches. He said that people of the state gave another chance to the NDA government as the ruling alliance is committed to implement sushasan in Bihar. In the coming years, commercially trained people would prove to be the base of sushasan and development, he said and added that to achieve this goal, the state government took efforts to open the CIMP, which is set to achieve international importance. “I wish a very bright future to the students of the CIMP,” he added.
Earlier, welcoming the guests, CIMP director V Mukunda Das thanked Sodhi for participating in the convocation of the institute. Congratulating the students, he said the CIMP has been able to generate 147 job opportunities for 2009-11 batch, comprising 38 students. He said that the CIMP has achieved everything because of the support and dedication of the Board of Governors. He said that chief secretary Anup Mukherjee has set standards by his commitment to maintain the autonomy of the CIMP.
Awards were also given to the students of batch 2009-11. While Kirti was awarded for best academic performance and for being topper of the batch, Neelanjan Sinha was awarded for his best all-round performance. Smriti bagged special award for outstanding contribution to campus life while Abhishek Kumar got the best alumni award, batch 2008-10.