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List of Board Members between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016Shri Deep Joshi : Chairman(till 27-11-2015) Institute of Rural Management Anand

Shri T Nanda Kumar : Chairman(since 28-11-2015) Institute of Rural Management Anand

Shri T Nanda Kumar : Chairman(till 27-11-2015) National Dairy Development Board, Anand

Shri J.K. Mohapatra : Secretary Department of Rural Development Government of India Ministry of Rural Development, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi – 110 001

Dr. V. Thiruppugazh : Commissioner and Secretary(till 14-6-2015) Rural Development Government of Gujarat Dr. Jivraj Mehta Bhavan, Block No. 16, 3rd Floor, Gandhinagar – 382 010

Dr. (Ms) Jayanti Ravi : Commissioner & Secretary(since 15-6-2015) Rural Development Government of Gujarat Dr. Jivraj Mehta Bhavan, Block No. 16, 3rd Floor, Gandhinagar – 382 010

Shri R.S. Sodhi : Managing Director Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. Amul Dairy Road, Anand – 388 001

Shri M.K. Mudgal : Chief General Manager(till 1-7-2015) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development NABARD Tower, 3rd Floor, Opp. Municipal Garden Post Usmanpura, Ahmedabad – 380 013

Shri R. Sundar : Chief General Manager(since 2-7-2015) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development NABARD Tower, 3rd Floor Opp. Municipal Garden Post, Usmanpura, Ahmedabad – 380 013

Ms. Priyanka Singh : Chief Executive Seva Mandir, Old Fatehpura, Udaipur – 313 004

Prof. Janat Shah : Director Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, University Road, Ganeshpura Mohanlal Sukhadia University Campus, Ganesh Nagar, Udaipur – 313 001

Dr. A.K. Shivakumar : 211 Golf Apartments Sujan Singh Park, New Delhi – 110 003

Shri S. Shivkumar : Group Head – Agri & IT Businesses ITC Limited, 31, Sarojini Devi Road, Secunderabad – 500 003

Shri S. Vijay Kumar : Distinguished Fellow The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Darbari Seth Block, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003

Mrs. Usha Thorat : Flat No. 3702, 37th Floor, Tower-4(till 31-10-2015) “Planet Godrej”, Kesavrao Khadge Marg Nr. Mahalaxmi Suburban Station, Mumbai

Prof. Tushaar Shah : Principal Scientist(since 1-11-2015) International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Smruti Park, B/h. IRMA, Mangalpura, Anand – 388 001

Prof. Madhavi Mehta : Institute of Rural Management Anand PB No.60, Anand- 388 001, GujaratProf. Paresh J Bhatt : Institute of Rural Management Anand PB No. 60, Anand – 388 001, Gujarat

Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma : Joint Secretary Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, New Delhi

Shri Udai Saklani : DU Head HCL Technologies, Corporate Office 3rd Floor, Plot No. 3A, Sector-126, Noida – 201 303, Uttar Pradesh

Prof. Jeemol Unni : DirectorMember-Secretary Institute of Rural Management Anand PB No. 60, Anand – 388 001, Gujarat

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Ever since its inception in 1979 the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) has been associated with quality education in rural management. The past year has been an eventful one for IRMA.

The Institute organized its Fourth Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture, which was delivered by Prof. Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India in November 2015. With the support of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) (brand AMUL) we launched the Dr. Verghese Kurien Centre for Excellence for research in dairy management, cooperatives, and producer organizations in agriculture. IRMA hosted the International Conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies (ICAEE) in collaboration with The Whitman School of Management and The South Asia Center at Syracuse University, USA and Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies (JADEE). Our flagship Post Graduate Programme in Rural Management (PRM) attracted a large number of applicants, with 178 participants currently enrolled in the first year of the programme. Our doctoral programme, Fellow Programme in Rural Management (FPRM), had 66 students applying with three making it to the final list.

Like every year, we are proud that IRMA’s placement has been unimpeachable with a one hundred percent record. This year, over 350 job offers came from about 100 recruiters.

IRMA held its 35th Convocation on May 30, 2016. We had Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon’ble Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Minister of Shipping, GOI, as Chief Guest.

IRMA’s five Centres of Excellence occupy pride of place in the Institute’s annals. Much of the research and consultancy is undertaken under the Centres of Excellence. Further, our faculty members continue to raise large research grants to conduct research on themes of national importance such as financial inclusion, adapting to climate change and decentralization, and Panchayats. Apart from teaching and research, IRMA has been conducting short and long-term executive training sessions or management development programmes (MDP). This year, 41 on-campus and seven off-campus MDPs were conducted.

Other highlights include research and teaching under the RBI Endowment Unit dedicated towards rural organizations and cooperatives, dissemination of information under the rural web repository Grameen Gyan Kosh (GGK), and building research capacities under the Verghese Kurien Policy Lab.

I am confident that IRMA will continue to take major strides in future and keep its flag of excellence flying.

R.C. NATARAJANDirector

Director’s Note


OverviewOverviewWith the present government striving to bring rural India on par with its urban counterpart the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) stands tall in its commitment towards rural management and development. Since its launch in 1979 the institute has striven “to promote sustainable, eco-friendly and equitable socio-economic development of rural people through professional management of their institutions...”

Three decades on IRMA remains entrenched in its vision of sending out management graduates into the rural space empowered with the knowledge and professionalism required for transforming the rural sector and ameliorating rural poverty related issues. And all this while, it has been enabling rural producers to prosper both economically and socially.

Needless to say, all this is owed to the institute’s late Founder Chairman, Dr. Verghese Kurien, hailed as the country’s dairy mogul. Dr. Kurien was known to say that if one Kurien could make such a difference to India’s dairy sector there was no reason why thousands of IRMA graduates could not transform the entire rural landscape. He had visualized an All India Rural Management Service along the lines of the

Indian Administrative Service. Part of his dream has been realized with a venerable procession of alumni heading prestigious organizations including the GCMMF.

IRMA’s educational and training programmes provide state-of-the-art pedagogy with strong emphasis on experiential learning. Our curricula, judiciously crafted, have allowed its practitioners to reach out to the ruralscape touching upon issues as diverse as natural resource management, health, forests, and rural mass migration.

IRMA’s bellwether, its celebrated Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Rural Management (PRM), is designed to instill participants

with rural realities and sensitivities. Participants of this programme look forward to taking up challenging managerial responsibilities in the rural cooperative sector and development organizations. PRM is recognized as equivalent to a Master’s Degree in Rural Management by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) besides having been approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

The coursework section of the programme is covered by the classroom segment relying on concepts, theories, and knowledge while the village fieldwork segment concentrates on rural realities.

IRMA’s educational and training programmes provide

state-of-the-art pedagogy with strong emphasis on experiential learning. Our

curricula, judiciously crafted, have allowed its practitioners

to reach out to the ruralscape touching upon

issues as diverse as natural resource management,

health, forests, and rural mass migration.


IRMA’s other course offering – the Fellow Programme in Rural Management (FPRM) – is for those seeking careers in research, teaching, and specialized knowledge based positions in institutions of higher learning, research, and development organizations. A doctoral-level programme requiring a minimum three-year residency FPRM has been approved by AICTE.

Substantial financial support is available to students of both the above-mentioned programmes. Working on the belief that the best candidates deserve the best help possible the institute provides a string of prestigious scholarships helping students to further their education. While FPRM participants receive fellowship stipends PRM

participants, too, are eligible for scholarships, educational loans, fee exemptions and a Bridge Fund reliant on terms and conditions.

Academic proficiency apart, IRMA has been reaching out to in-service managers and officers working with cooperatives, NGOs, and government and semi-government organizations engaged in rural development. In doing so the institute has been actualizing capacity building skills through its much sought Management Development Programmes or MDPs that are both open as well as sponsored. The MDPs have both short and long durations and are conducted on campus as well as outside.

While engaging in teaching and training the institute is deeply

involved in research and consultancy. In a rapidly globalizing world backed by digitized information going beyond the scope of the web knowledge creation has become more crucial than ever. It stands to reason, hence, that our faculty constantly engage in rigorous research that is evidence-based and meaningful with the intention of making a difference. It frequently happens that organizations contact IRMA to conduct research for them. Stepping into a world reshaped by new communication tools and innovative technologies the institute has been doing its bit to aid the emergence of the new ‘knowledge society’ through its five Centres of Excellence that cater to shared facilities in the context of research and scholarship.


PRM Admissions The admissions’ process for PRM 37 (2016-18) commenced in the third week of August 2015. Advertisements were relayed to publications like the Times of India - Education Times (all editions), The Hindu – Education Plus (all editions), Anand Bazar Patrika (all editions), Assam Pratidin (Asomiya Pratidin) – all editions – and Punjab Kesari (all editions). Popular web portals including PaGaLGuY.Com, Career Launcher.com, MBA Rendezvous.com and Facebook.com were also targeted while announcements were posted on IRMA’s website. Online advertising along with the e-mailer

facility of PaGaLGuY.com, too, came in handy.

The IMS Learning Centre collected the application fees on behalf of IRMA at their various learning centres. Around 11,000 posters displaying the admissions’ notice were conveyed to all the departments of universities, NIITs, IITs, agricultural and other colleges, cooperatives, and NGOs. Copies of the admissions’ notice of 2016 were sent to the Information and Public Relations departments of all the states in the country. Designated organizations, which could – potentially – sponsor their employees for the CRM and PRM

courses, were also informed about Admissions 2016 via e-mails.

Candidates for the PRM 37 (2016-18) batch were selected on the basis of scores obtained from the written test, personal interview, and group activity. For the written test, scores obtained during CAT 2015/XAT2016 and “Issues of Social Concern” (ISC), were considered. The latter is an online written test conducted by IRMA to evaluate the analytical skills of applicants on issues related to rural society, polity, and economy.

As far as foreign nationals and NRI applicants are concerned, IRMA received four applications in the reporting year. Of these, two applicants were not eligible as per the criteria for foreign nationals. The rest of the applicants, who had low scores, were not considered for admission.

As in previous years, the applicants were able to apply online and pay through the payment gateway. Besides, they had the option of making payments to an SBI branch. Students were also able to obtain application material including prospectuses, application forms, and sample question papers subject to full fee payment.

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The admissions’ process commenced in the third week of August. Candidates were selected on the basis of scores obtained from the written test, personal

interview, and group activity. The application fee was waived for

those hailing from BPL families. IRMA also made arrangements

for the free boarding and lodging of BPL candidates appearing for

the Group Activity and Personal Interview.


The number of applications for PRM 2016-18 reduced marginally to 2,982 as against 3,119 for PRM 2015-17. Of these, 2,982 applicants who had sent in filled in forms, 1,509 appeared for the ISC online written test conducted across 27 centres (32 examination venues) in the country on February 14, 2016.

Based on their online test scores 836 candidates were shortlisted of which 621 appeared for the Personal Interview (PI) and Group Activity (GA). Based on performance, 249 candidates were given offers of admission from the first list. Of these, 146 belonged to the General Category, 68 to OBC (non creamy), 27 to SC, five to ST, and three to DAP categories. Alongside, a waiting list of 270 candidates by category was released with their ranks at the same time.

For PRM 2016-18, 40 BPL (Below Poverty Line) candidates had applied out of which 19 candidates appeared for the ISC written test (online). Based on their performance, four BPL candidates were short listed for GA and PI. Of these, three candidates appeared for the GA and PI. Finally, one BPL candidate was given an offer of admission.

As in previous years, the application fee was waived for both PRM and FPRM candidates hailing from BPL families while their travel expenditure was reimbursed by the institute. IRMA also made arrangements for the free boarding and lodging of BPL candidates appearing for the Group Activity and Personal Interview.

FPRM Admissions FPRM admissions were initiated in the third week of August 2015. IRMA received 66 applications as opposed to 78 the previous year. Among those who had applied, 40 appeared for the ISC online written test on February 14, 2016. Twelve applicants, who either had a valid UGC JRF score or a PGDRM

(Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management) from IRMA, were exempted from the written test.

Like the PRM candidates, applicants for FPRM were selected on the basis of their CAT 2015/XAT 2016 scores and the IRMA online written test, ISC. Twenty-six applicants were requested to submit their Biographical Information Form (BIF), an essay regarding their choice of specialization, along with a statement of purpose (SoP). Only seven candidates managed to complete their submissions. Of these, four appeared for the Personal Interview and Personal Discussion on April 25, 2016. During this session the applicants were asked to make presentations based on their essays. Discussions and interviews also involved the essay topics. Finally, three applicants were offered admission to FPRM 2016.

Academic ProgrammesUnderstanding management principles nuanced with rural and developmental underpinnings is critical to IRMA’s two main course offerings: the two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PRM) and the Fellow Programme in Rural Management (FPRM). PRM, which is IRMA’s flagship programme, is currently in its 37th year.


The PRM curriculum is an amalgam of classroom learning and fieldwork. It consists of four distinct segments- classroom, village fieldwork, development internship, and management traineeship. Within their first week of the programme the students are required to undergo ‘induction fieldwork’ in the villages of Gujarat. This is to ensure that students are aware of the realities tied in to the programme and are free to opt out.

Classroom SegmentThe classroom segment deals with the basics of rural management and development in the first year. All courses of the curriculum are compulsory in the first year. The students are required to study the foundation and context of rural management in the first term and its various functional aspects in the second and third terms.

The classroom segment in the second year comprises two terms, Term IV and Term V. Term IV deals with core courses that are compulsory. Students are also required to select optional courses from two groups: Rural Development Management and Rural Enterprise Management.

Village Fieldwork SegmentThe Village Fieldwork Segment (VFS) is the pièce de résistance of the entire PRM curriculum. Highly interactive and pragmatic, it is scheduled post Term 1. The VFS makes it mandatory for participants to interact with village communities in their indigenous settings. It is also an exciting time whereby students learn about village life first hand while developing much needed rural-oriented skills. They are required to stay inside their designated villages for the entire duration of the VFS. Later, they are assessed on the basis of reports

and presentations of Exploratory Study of the Village (ESV), Theme Paper, and evaluation by the host organization based on tasks undertaken during the Rural Action Component (RAC). Some students may opt for Faculty Participant Collaborative Research (FPCR) in lieu of the Theme Paper.

The PRM 36 batch for 2015-17 were spread out in 10 states all across the country working for NGOs and grassroots’ organizations like Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (Gujarat), Malabar Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (Kerala), and Centre for Youth and Social Development (Orissa).

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T. Nanda Kumar takes over as Chairman of IRMAMr. T. Nanda Kumar took over as Chairman of IRMA on November 28, 2015. Mr. Kumar has served as Member of the National Disaster Management Authority and Chairman of Spices Board in Cochin (under the Government of India) during the time of changeover to the WTO regime. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1972 and was allotted the Bihar Cadre.

His work with Spices Board had led to a significant augmentation in exports.

He was also on an assignment with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Bangladesh for three years. He was appointed Food Secretary of the Government of India in 2006 and later as Agriculture Secretary in 2008.

Mr. Nanda Kumar took over from well-known social worker and NGO

activist Shri Deep Joshi, who was IRMA’s Chairman between November 2012

and November 2015.


The students took up residencies in pairs and some in groups of three in pre-designated villages. They devoted their VFS to preparing individual reports delineating details of their residencies, studying rural relevant themes, conducting collaborative research with an IRMA faculty member, and engaging in problem-solving activities of interest to the host organization.

Table 3 in Annexure 1 displays the themes pertaining to VFS.

Development Internship SegmentThe Development Internship Segment (DIS) is an eight-week module commencing after the third term, at the beginning of the second year of PRM. This segment allows students to work with grassroots’ development interventions and the community through practical engagement. The DIS provides students with opportunities for applying theories learned in the classroom in a hands-on and “real

world” way. This is also their chance to interact and network meaningfully with development practitioners.

The students are evaluated on the basis of reports, presentations of development interventions set out by the host organization, and the work concluded at the latter. Besides, there is a reporting officer and guide who make an independent assessment.

DIS for the reporting year commenced on July 1, 2015 to last till August 14, 2015. As many as 125 organizations offered 226 projects of which our students selected 131 from 83 organizations.

Management Traineeship SegmentThe Management Traineeship Segment (MTS) is scheduled after Term IV and takes up to nine weeks. Since the MTS occurs at an advanced stage of the PRM programme

students are expected to take up complex assignments involving intense teamwork, leadership, and management. Moreover, the MTS integrates knowledge acquired from advanced courses like Strategic Management, Project Management, Public System Management, and Managing Cooperatives.

For the MTS, students work with senior managers supported by IRMA’s faculty guides who help them make informed decisions. The MTS’ being strong on its problem-solving component has helped MTS participants develop the skills and values required of professional managers.

MTS for PRM 35 (batch of 2014-16) was conducted between November 23, 2015 and January 15, 2016. This year, 140 projects came to the institute from which our students selected projects from 59 companies that mainly dealt with rural livelihood, farm productivity, and development.


The Fellow Programme in Rural Management (FPRM) is a unique offering for students committed to rural development and allied fields. Launched in 2001 as a doctoral programme, it has gone from strength to strength over the years. Its vibrant curriculum attracts the best talents and the most dedicated minds living up to IRMA’s dictum of having a purpose in life that goes beyond generating profits, a purpose emphasizing human worth over monetary value.

Fulfilling a minimum residency requirement of three years FPRM participants are expected to choose one of the centres while pursuing their interdisciplinary research. Most specialization areas involve themes like management of collectives, agribusiness, rural marketing, micro-finance, sustainable livelihoods, and so on.

The FPRM curriculum is backed by a strong coursework component in rural management and a doctoral thesis. Upon coursework completion participants are required to write the Comprehensive Qualifying Examination (CQE) prior to becoming eligible for commencing their thesis. The Qualifying Examination is conducted over

two stages with the first stage examination pertaining to the participants’ area of specialization. The second stage involves gauging their overall understanding of rural management and competence with regard to inter-disciplinary and cross-functional thinking. Participants are also required to engage as Teaching Assistants for two credits of PRM courses or their time equivalent (six months) of research or editorial assistantship.

While working at their theses the FPRM students also get involved with seminars, workshops, and presentations. They are, besides,

encouraged to write and present their research findings in national and international journals and conferences. For instance, one of our FPRM students, Satyender Nath Mishra presented his paper entitled, “Policy Implementation and Institutional Dynamics: A Study of Jatropha Based Biofuel Policy in Chhattisgarh, India” at a doctoral public seminar at IRMA. Another student, Suddhachit Mitra, worked as member of an IRMA consulting team on a project entitled “Market Survey of Organic Food Products in Gorakhpur and Adjoining Districts” between October 2015 and January 2016.

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Placement The placement week for the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) was scheduled during February 22-28, 2016. Despite an unprecedented batch size of almost 200 placements stood at nearly 100 percent.

Over 350 job offers came from about 100 recruiters for the batch. While 12 participants accepted the

pre-placement offers made to them during their internship phase two were sponsored candidates while five had opted out of the placement programme.

As in the previous year, the largest proportion of job offers came from the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), a total of 18. Another single largest recruiter this year was HDFC Bank in the agrifinance-microfinance

sector that came up with 11 selections. This was followed by ICICI-Lombard and National Payments Corporation of India that hired 10 and 9 students respectively.

No less than one-fourth of the current batch was absorbed by producers’ collectives and cooperatives in the reporting year.

The average salary of the current batch was over Rs.8.5 lakh per annum while the median stood at Rs. 8.2 lakh per annum. The highest salary for the batch stood at Rs. 27.39 lakh.

Like the previous year the present trend of placements highlighted an emphatic focus on financial inclusion and revival of the micro finance sector with agri-finance and microfinance emerging as the highest recruiters attracting about one-third of the graduating batch.

Interest in the social entrepreneurship sector continued to register a rise with six organizations recruiting 14 participants.

In all, 25 students chose to take up offers by Non-Government Development Organizations and Government Development Organizations. These included organizations like the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, PRADAN, and Gramin Shiksha Kendra. Arghyam was a new entrant to the list. Government Development Organizations and missions like Rajasthan Grameen Ajeevika Parishad, MP State Rural Livelihoods Mission, the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, and Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (Andhra Pradesh) emerged dominant during placements in the reporting year.

As always, IRMA graduates fulfilled the credo of living up to community ideals as opposed to personal gains.


ConvocationIRMA held its 35th annual convocation on May 30, 2016. Shri Nitin Gadkari, Honourable Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Minister Shipping, was Chief Guest on the occasion. He also delivered the convocation address.

Members of Parliament Dilipbhai Patel and Devi Singh Chauhan were present during the occasion along with IRMA’s chairman, board of governors, faculty and graduating students of IRMA.

Prof. Jeemol Unni, Director of the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), welcoming the Chief Guest along with the Board of Governors, press, invitees, faculty, graduating students and their parents highlighted some of the institute’s achievements for the academic year including IRMA’s infrastructural expansion to accommodate a larger batch size. She also mentioned that “a large number of MoUs have been signed and research and consulting assignments undertaken…” among many other things.

IRMA’s Chairman, Mr. T. Nanda Kumar, wishing the fresh graduates all the best while embarking on their new journey exhorted them to “push the pedal to the future”. Emphasizing that “IRMA is a unique institution” he expressed pride in the fact that its graduates have been working in important organizations and sectors. He also reminded the students that “chasing high CTCs does not matter because it is more important to create happiness in people’s lives.”

The Chief Guest, during his address, extolled the option IRMA’s graduating students had taken of serving the rural sector which, he affirmed, was “beleaguered by severe challenges, mainly involving technology and infrastructure.” Bemoaning the fact that rural voices remain unheard in Delhi’s corridors of power he went on to assert that he expected “a lot from IRMA’s graduates with regard to the challenges besetting the rural sector” while expressing hope that our students would have the vision to address these challenges.

“Resources are not the main problem,” he stressed adding that “without technological upgrades, research and innovation there cannot be economic viability in agriculture or rural economy.”

In all, 195 PRM (Post Graduate Programme in Rural Management) participants and two FPRM (Fellow Programme in Rural Management) participants graduated this year. Shreshta Kukreja who had topped his batch of PRM 35, was awarded the prestigious Kuchibhotla Vasanthi Gold Medal by the Chief Guest.



The dictum IRMA lives by is that no one who is meritorious should be deprived of an education for lack of funds. The institute has, consequently, established a string of prestigious scholarships for students to further their education.

IRMA FellowshipThe IRMA fellowship, launched in 2007, is available for those students working at the grassroots’ level at salaries below the benchmark salary pre-decided by IRMA. This fellowship is earmarked for those who are committed to development and rural prosperity shunning careers promising mega bucks.

The fellowship amount is equal to the difference between the gross salary received by the participant and the benchmark salary. The fellowship amount and eligibility are determined by the placement office. The fellowship is disbursed by the administration department based on proof of service and salary amount.

Scholarships for SC/ST StudentsAs many as 15 scholarships are available to the SC/ST students

who get admitted to IRMA, ten of which are disbursed by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. These are inclusive of tuition fees, non-refundable expenses, boarding and lodging. They also cover costs involving books, stationery, and PCs. Five scholarships are granted by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs for Scheduled Tribes (STs). These scholarships cover tuition fees, boarding and lodging, books, and a one-time grant for the purchase of a personal computer.

Educational LoansEducational loans are available from the State Bank of India, Canara Bank, and the Central Bank of India at low interest rates sans collateral.

Fee ExemptionAdhering to the principle of not denying admission to deserving students the institute has always remained open to providing financial assistance from impoverished families.

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The IRMA fellowship is available for students

working at the grassroots’ level at salaries below the

benchmark salary pre-decided by IRMA. This

fellowship is earmarked for those who are committed to development and rural

prosperity shunning careers promising mega bucks.


Bridge Fund The Bridge Fund was set up by the institute to aid students from underprivileged backgrounds. A sum of Rs. 10 lakh is made available to these students to help them bridge the gap between the dates of payment (to IRMA) and the disbursement of payment from different financing options including fee waivers, bank loans, and SC-ST fellowships. Three students were able to avail of the Bridge Fund facility in 2013-15, two of whom belonged to the SC/ST category.

Cleanliness driveInspired by the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’, launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, IRMA’s students had taken a pledge of ‘Cleanliness’. A mass flash mop cum cleanliness drive was undertaken by IRMA students in association with Anand Municipality Corporation on January 17, 2016. The drive commenced near the old bus stand area of “Milk City” Anand, Gujarat. The local population, including municipality employees and hawkers, participated in the drive while the volunteers helped clear the waste and garbage strewn in the vicinity. Arjit Panwar, a student, said, “The awareness campaign will encourage the residents to maintain cleanliness and their support will galvanize the milk city’s endeavour towards a face-lift.” The municipal authorities were felicitated by the students for acknowledging their efforts and constant vigil in terms of keeping the city clean and green.

The event was staged as a prelude to the town’s reputed marathon event conducted every year by IRMA – Anand Run. The local administration thanked the student community for its efforts and appealed them to wholeheartedly participate in cleaning their homes and premises of the institute.


IRMA has always been committed to the furtherance of management education by providing training to future managers in the rural space as well as instilling executive learning within management professionals. Our well-known Management Development Programmes or MDPs are well thought out capacity-building exercises aimed at enhancing organizational performance. Understanding the urgency of this requirement IRMA constructs a broad array of training programmes based on contemporary themes for cooperatives, NGOs, and government and semi-government organizations engaged in rural development.

Each programme is meticulously structured to ensure high levels of efficiency while offering unique learning propositions to participants equipping them with current as well as evolving concepts, perspectives, and practices within the context of professionalizing rural management. Some of the takeaways from our MDPs include a sound knowledge base, collaboratively worked out heightened analysis, and exposure to varied perspectives of a well-informed peer group. The training pedagogies deployed in our programmes are geared towards specific managerial needs while instilling participative learning.

IRMA’s faculty offers these programmes with a sound amalgam of knowledge, experience, and training skills at their command. We also employ external resources, experts in their field, from time to time. Constant update is the touchstone of these MDPs with a close eye on changing trends and professional requirements.

IRMA conducted 41 MDPs in the reporting year, 11 of them sponsored ones. Both the open as well as sponsored programmes catered to professionals associated with organizations served by IRMA

including co-operatives, NGOs, banks, and government and semi-government organizations. The topics covered a wide ambit including finance, livelihood, and leadership issues to mention only a few.

A fair number of IRMA’s faculty members get invited outside of campus every year. Seven MDPS were held outside the campus in the reporting year in organizations like the Assam State Disaster Management Authority, MP State Cooperative Dairy Federation, and National Skills Foundation.

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Some of the takeaways from our MDPs include

a sound knowledge base, collaboratively worked

out heightened analysis, and exposure to varied perspectives of a well-informed peer group.



Besides teaching and training the institute is deeply involved in research and consultancy. Our faculty engages in rigorous research that is evidence-based, meaningful, and aimed at making a difference. Much of the research and consultancy is now conducted and reported under the Centres of Excellence.

CONCLUDED PROJECTSRegenerating Forests through People’s Participation: How Far Has the Joint Forest Management (JFM) Worked?

Team: HS Shylendra

The severe degradation of natural resources and the imminent threat to ecological security has led to the exploration of alternatives regarding sustainable management. One such alternative includes involving communities through participatory ways to tap their agency for conserving resources like forests, water, or land. Designed along participatory lines, the Joint Forest Management (JFM) happens to be the flagship programme for restoring degraded forests in India. Participatory approaches manifest themselves as the ‘means’ or ‘goals’ of development. JFM, as a participatory intervention,

Research and ConsultancyResearch and Consultancy

has emerged more as a top–down initiative with a rigid framework unable to break the inherent structural constraints for a more empowered process of forest regeneration. The available evidence largely corroborates the theoretical contention that a participatory approach may not necessarily lead to improved outcomes for forest regeneration on a significant scale. The study, besides critically assessing the role of JFM, draws a few implications for its future strategies.

Dangers of Decentralization in Urban Slums: A Comparative Study of Water Supply and Drainage Service Delivery in Kolkata, India

Team: Indranil De and Tirthankar Nag

Clientelism may lead to the underprovisioning of services deemed suitable for decentralization. Water distribution and drainage services, managed from a lower level of municipal authority, are liable to be affected by clientelism

Our faculty engages in rigorous research that is

evidence-based, meaningful, and aimed at making a difference. Much of the

research and consultancy is now conducted and reported

under the Centres of Excellence.


and consequent underprovisioning. Water quality, maintained from a higher municipal layer, is not likely to be affected by clientelism. Capturing by politically influential and dominant social and religious groups is likely to occur for important services like water supply. The study suggests that awareness, measurability, importance, and resource intensiveness of services are additional factors to be considered while assessing the suitability of a sector for decentralization.

Market Separations for BOP Producers: The Case of Market Development for the Chanderi Cluster Weavers in India

Team: Ramendra Singh, Sharad Agarwal, and Pratik Modi

This study deals with the Chanderi handloom cluster as a case of market development by applying and extending Bartels’ (1968) theory of market separations. Through semi-structured interviews of various stakeholders involved in the process of market development the study validates four market separations suggested by Bartels. Additionally, the researchers find evidence of a new (fifth) market separation that they label as ‘social market separation’. They empirically argue that social separation is an equally important market separation serving to inhibit market development at the Bottom of Pyramid (BOP), often acting as a barrier to market development. This may manifest itself in various forms including overbearing social customs and regressive socio-cultural practices adversely impacting the BOP producers’ capacity to produce or reduce their access to the markets. Implications of the study for development organizations as well as for marketers include recognizing the importance of conducting market linkage programmes for BOP producers by efficient reduction of five market separations to accelerate market development at BOP, leading to developmental gains.

Technology-enabled Inclusive Innovation: A Case from India

Team: Vanita Yadav

India is a country with a population of 1.2 billion where around 400 million poor people remain excluded from the formal economy. India does not offer a social security number for its residents. Rather, there exist variant forms of identification documents. In 2009, the Government of Indian initiated the Aadhaar project to create biometric technology enabled unique identities for Indian residents. In a short eight-year span the project has made remarkable progress by enrolling more than 600 million people. The objective of this study is twofold- (i) to review the emerging literature on inclusive innovation and (ii) to examine the case of Aadhaar Project in India from the perspective of inclusive innovation. Findings of the study reveal that the Aadhaar project has the potential to create an ecosystem of inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship, which can be beneficial for developing economies like India.

Status, Caste, and Market in a Changing Indian Village

Team: Ram Manohar Vikas, Rohit Varman, and Russell W. Belk

When social and economic conditions change dramatically, status hierarchies in place for hundreds of years can crumble with marketization destabilizing once rigid boundaries. This study examines such changes in symbolic power through an ethnographic study of a village in North India. Marketization and accompanying privatization do not create an independent sphere where only money matters. Rather, a mix of new socio-economic motives gives rise to new social obligations, contests, and solidarities. These findings call into question the emphasis in consumer research on top-down class emulation as an essential characteristic of status hierarchies.

Information Kiosk Based Indian E-Governance Service Delivery: Value Chain Based Measurement Modelling

Team: Harekrishna Misra

Globally speaking, e-governance systems have been evolving towards wider acceptance. Most countries have embraced e-governance as part of their long-term policy. Contemporary e-governance implementation efforts, however, are not free from challenges. While some argue in favour of convergence between businesses, government, civil society, and so on many feel citizen acceptance needs to be the primary objective. In cases like the European Union (EU) citizen acceptance of e-governance services has become very important because of member-driven benefits. In developing countries, this challenge is enormous despite prolific growth in the


e-governance infrastructure. In the Indian context, e-governance infrastructure has evolved towards a stage of consolidation. National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), National Knowledge Network (NKN), and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) offer scope for such a consolidation. This study argues that value chain management approach is necessary for consolidating the efforts made so far. Consolidation needs wider citizen acceptance with value added services as basic imperatives. This consolidation phase needs to ensure that e-governance efforts have longer life cycles and better convergence with connected e-governance in place. A measurement and acceptance model has been presented in this paper with two case studies drawn from India for validation.

ONGOING PROJECTSRural Management in the Context of East Africa

Team: Saswata Biswas and Debiprasad Mishra

This study was sponsored by the Aga Khan University, East Africa. The project is based on three broad topics of enquiry in the field of rural management. The first seeks to understand the characteristics and attributes of rural management and the importance of contextual factors (particularly in East African conditions). Second, it seeks to understand the appropriate description for rural management practices including diversity. Third, it seeks information on the organizations or entities that could become potential users of a rural management programme and the status of undergraduate education in the countries of East Africa.

Impact of Mobile on Women’s Empowerment in Rural Gujarat

Team: Ila Patel

Tokyo’s Weseda University had commissioned a study on the “Impact of Mobile on women’s empowerment in Rural Gujarat”. The study is focused on the development and finalization of research tools on the basis of pre testing in the reporting year.

KMVS supported consultancy

Team: Indranil De, Mukul Kumar, and HS Shylendra

This is a consulting study supported by the grassroots organization Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS) seeking to understand and analyze the issues of economic security and safety of females engaged in income generation activities in the unorganized economic sectors of Bhuj in the Kutch District. Mainstreaming gender aspects in Gram Panchayats is the main aim of this project and a report is already under preparation to this effect. Based on findings a workshop on gender sensitization has been proposed for both elected members and officials of local bodies.

Climate Change Adaptation Approaches for Sustainable Livelihoods

Team: Pramod K. Singh

This is a collaborative study between IRMA and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) based in Austria. The study has been designed to provide evidence-based strategies for mainstream adaptation for development planning in Gujarat while ensuring livelihood security at the same time. It aims to develop knowledge, strategies, approaches, measures, and processes equipping vulnerable communities in Gujarat with skills regarding coping with and adapting to the impending impacts of climate change. Based on agro-ecological modelling, the study is expected to provide “Scenarios of Gujarat Agriculture in the 21st Century”.


Designing and Strategizing the implementation of Sustainable Livelihood Interventions in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur Districts of Assam

• Action research on collective enterprise based livelihood promotion

Team: Pramod K Singh and Harekrishna Mishra (coordinators); Madhavi Mehta and Ram Manohar Vikas (members)

IRMA has entered into an agreement with the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) to work on promoting collective enterprises for livelihood augmentation in the command area of Subansri dam in Assam. This project is a collaborative action study envisaging the active participation of NHPC, partner organizations, district administration, and communities. The project also envisages identifying sector-based value chains and climate resilient livelihood opportunities by creating productive assets to be owned by communities. While NHPC intends to support the project based interventions jointly planned with IRMA, the project team will encourage government agencies and local communities to contribute in view of the convergence of various sector-specific development schemes. The project envisages the interventions to be time bound and also that agents will withdraw eventually. The withdrawal strategy involves training and capacity building of the promoted collective enterprises and linking these enterprises to sustainable supply chains.

Scaling Digital Financial Services: Research and Innovation

Team: Jeemol Unni, HK Nagarajan, Rakesh Arrawatia, Vivek Pandey, and Shyam Singh

The aim of the project is to study the demand side factors that facilitate the programme and identify methods for improving the use of new bank accounts lying dormant.

Evaluation of MGNREGS in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

Team: Girish Agrawal, Rakesh Saxena, and Pramod Singh

The study showcases the evaluation of MGNREGS in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. A multi-step sampling method was adopted for selection of the region, state, district blocks, and GPs. Methodology involved administering survey schedules to workers and beneficiary non-worker along with focused group discussions at the gram Panchayat level while targeting functionaries at state, district, and block levels. Asset verification by engineers was also conducted. There were eight different schedules administered across state, district, block, gram Panchayat, and worker levels.

CENTRES OF EXCELLENCEIRMA’s five Centres of Excellence are committed to a high standard of scholarship and best practices. These are:

1. Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods

2. Centre for Rural Infrastructure and Corporate Social Responsibility

3. Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprises

4. Centre for Public Policy and Governance

5. Centre for Rural-Urban Dynamics

Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods The primary objective of the Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods (CSL) is addressing livelihood challenges. Relentless effort goes into transmitting and disseminating knowledge via interdisciplinary research, policy advocacy, and networking for equipping communities with sustainable livelihood systems. The centre caters to the needs of various stakeholders involved with the livelihood enhancement of the rural poor through innovative research and transformative action.


Some of the research activities conducted under CSL include the following:

• Case Research: Climate Change Adaptation Practices for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods

This study supports knowledge requirements of the Indian National Mission for Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change. It scrutinizes and evaluates adaptations for replication and up-scaling in view of future climate change. Finally, it attempts to develop a holistic and balanced approach in order to respond to the challenges of climate change in effective and equitable ways. A semi quantitative, fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) approach has been deployed to this end helping create a climate change vulnerability index for sustainable livelihoods based on peoples’ perceptions. Sensitivity and adaptive capacity captured through the FCM approach allows for scenario generation providing policy insights into the effectiveness of adaption practices and strategies for climate resilient pathways.

The case research is on climate change adaptation practices for sustainable rural livelihoods, which scrutinizes and evaluates adaptations for replication and up-scaling in view of future climate change.

• Institutionalization of Geo-ICT Enabled Micro-Planning for Inclusive Development

The present paradigm of India’s development strategy is ‘inclusive growth’. Inclusive growth is a process involving opportunity, capability, access, and security of the community. Most economic, social, and environmental processes being inherently spatial there is a growing realization that the geo-spatial dimension can no longer be ignored if the process of planning has to remain grounded while proving effective. The Geo-ICT becomes a relevant tool in such a context.

• Case Research on Producers’ Collectives

The study is placed in the context of the problems faced by farmers’ producer organizations. The case research intends to explore the following dimensions of producer collectives: socioeconomic and political contexts, design of institutions, institutionalization processes, availability and access to capital, policy legal


and regulatory issues, and value chain and marketing. Five cases on Producers Collectives have been planned for the period between 2015 and 2016. Additional cases will be studied over 2016-17.

• Evaluation of Holistic Watershed Development ProgrammeCSL plans to study NABARD’s Holistic Watershed Development Programme (NHWDP) with the twin objective of sustaining and enhancing the livelihood security of farmers and enabling them to improve their quality of living. On the anvil are a second rolling out of an integrated model of watershed development on a cluster basis, facilitating the horizontal spread of key interventions outside the watershed clusters under cluster plus activities, and fostering vibrant community networks of SHGs among other things. Besides, 36 projects implemented under Phase II of NHWDP in Maharashtra are waiting to be evaluated. This covers, among other things, project implementation and management processes, process change, impact evaluation, and the evaluation of direct impacts.

CSL has, among other things, concluded a case research on ‘Climate Change Adaptation Practices for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods’. This study supports knowledge requirements of the Indian National Mission for Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change. It scrutinizes and evaluates adaptations for replication and up-scaling in the context of future climate change. Finally, it attempts to develop a holistic and balanced approach in order to respond to the challenges of climate change in effective and equitable ways. A semi quantitative, fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) approach has been deployed to capture peoples’ perceptions. The FCM approach allows for scenario generation offering policy insights into the effectiveness of adaption practices and strategies for climate resilient pathways. A total of 24 cases have been studied so far.

The project reveals the dynamic livelihood vulnerability of communities across regions by discovering assets that are sensitive to the impacts of climate variability and change as well as assets providing adaptive capacities against the impacts of climate variability and change. One can overcome limitations by measuring dynamic vulnerability while providing indicators for decision-making and policy processes. The findings show that vulnerability to climate variability and change varies across the time, regions and sectors, and stakeholders’ perceptions, among other things. Simulations have been run to understand implications on livelihoods in a system with higher climate forcing, with and without scaling up adaptations.

The centre has also come up with two working papers on:

• Simulating the Effectiveness of Livelihood Adaptations in the light of Climate Change

• Status of Land Conflicts in India

Centre for Rural Infrastructure & Corporate Social Responsibility

This centre has two wings- rural infrastructure and corporate social responsibility. The former involves research efforts exerted towards improvement in rural lives and livelihoods impinging on financial, social, economic, and environmental factors.

The Corporate Social Responsibility wing of this centre, on the other hand, concentrates its efforts on promoting sustainable business practices across sectors while keeping intact the social context.

Some of the research-related activities of this centre include:

• Baseline/Need Assessment survey for NPCIL-KAPS

This is a CSR initiative on the part of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to bring about improvements in the living conditions of village inhabitants around the Kakrapar Atomic Power Stations (KAPS) in Gujarat’s Surat district. The company undertakes activities for the development of the community surrounding its area of operations. The management of NPCIL-KAPS signed an MoU with IRMA in December 2014 to conduct a Baseline/ Need Assessment survey in peripheral villages within a radius of five kilometres from KAPS. The project’s objective was to recommend investments with regard to improvement tasks covering various areas of village life with a main focus on water facilities, housing and sanitation, livelihood, education, and health care facilities with gap analysis and action required on the part of NPCIL. The survey also intended to identify other needs and major problems faced by the community.


• Mid-term impact evaluation of project SakshamThis concerns an assessment of the project Saksham based on the livelihoods of Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation (VOCSETs) and Women Affected by AIDS (WAAs). The objective of the study was to assess the progress of the intervention.

• Need assessment study of Project Kamdhenu in Assam

This project was an outcome of an MoU signed between IRMA and Oil India Limited. Among other things, it explored the potential for strengthening dairy farming along with all backward and forward linkages in order to increase the bovine productivity and production of milk in two districts.

• Community impact assessment of the Vadodara-Halol Toll Road in GujaratSince community impact appraisal techniques like Social Impact Assessments (SIA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) tend to be qualitative as opposed to quantitative a study was conducted under which a framework was developed to quantify the overall impact of a road in the context of rural communities living in a catchment area.

• Evaluation of MGNREGA in MP and Chhattisgarh An evaluation of MGNREGA in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh was conducted as part of an all India

research project commissioned by PEO, Planning Commission. The research project for the two states was a multi-level study administered across eight schedules to nearly 5000 different level functionaries and beneficiaries of the MGNREGA program. The objective of the study was to cover all aspects of MGNREGA including administrative, fund flow, asset quality, program benefits, migration, livelihood options as well as the functioning of PRI institutions involved in implementation. The project concluded in February 2016.

• Mid-term Impact Evaluation of CCD-ABF Farmers’ Livelihood ProjectThe aim of this study was to conduct mid-term impact evaluation of the CCD-ABF livelihood intervention with groundnut farmers in Andhra Pradesh. The study assessed the impact of cooperatives on agricultural incomes, fair trade practices, role of intermediaries, and effectiveness of support services provided by the implementing agency. The project concluded in August 2015.


Aside from the studies conducted under the centre there are other activities underway. For instance, two workshops are in the process of being organized in Bombay and Delhi on lean impact assessment methodology with Performance Management Initiative, William Davidson Institute, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with resource persons from the University of Michigan, USA and IRMA.

It is worth mentioning in this space that one of the faculty members of this centre, Prof. Vivek Pandey, was conferred the prestigious Obama-Singh mini-grant by the United States-India Educational Foundation. The fellowship was administered jointly by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and IIM Bangalore. It was granted for conducting research in corporate sustainability. Prof. Pandey had won the fellowship for his research proposal, ‘The Mandatory CSR Act and Response of Indian Companies’. The research output from the study was submitted to IIM Bangalore in January 2016.

Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprises

The primary focus of this centre is on the inception, growth, issues and impediments to social entrepreneurship and enterprises. The centre also promotes the efforts of individuals and organizations trying to establish sustainable organizations in order to create a social surplus exceeding organizational and individual surplus. It also seeks to encourage the entrepreneurial aspirations of IRMA graduates and support them by networking with other organizations so that they can create viable organizations oriented towards IRMA’s mission while also seeking interfaces with Government programmes to promote social entrepreneurship and enterprises.

Some of the activities undertaken by the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprises include the following:

International and National Conferences

• The International Conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies (ICAEE) conference was organized by IRMA and CSEE in collaboration with the Whitman School of Management & the South Asia Center at Syracuse University (USA) along with the Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies on January 6-7, 2016. The conference had 150 attendees from 17 Indian states. It also had international participants from Uganda, USA and Sri Lanka. As many as 84 participants presented papers on various dimensions of agribusiness include marketing, public policy issues, dairy cooperatives, supply and value chains, contract farming, finance, innovations and entrepreneurship. The conference also featured a round table with speakers from GCMMF, Tata Trusts, NDDB, NeML and Yes Bank along with an invited talk on “Agribusiness development and smallholder agriculture: Experience and prospects” by Mr. Pravesh Sharma, former Managing Director of Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium.


The conference was supported by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Gujarat Co-operative Milk & Marketing Federation (GCMMF), Tata Trusts, Yes Bank and NCDEX e-markets.

• MoUs

The centre has signed MoUs with the following early stage start-ups for incubation support (mentoring and networking):

Dhwani Rural Information Systems: Founded by IRMA alumni Swapnil Agrawal and Sunandan Madan Dhwani has been working towards lowering technology barriers to citizen sector organizations. It aims to provide affordable, integrated, and smart ICT tools for organizations working at BoP levels. An MoU was signed to this effect on May 11, 2015.

i-Saksham:

The i-Saksham Education and Learning Foundation is an initiative on the part of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows (PMRDFs). It was co-founded by IRMA alumnus Ravi Dhanuka. This initiative seeks to enhance the capability of individuals through ICT tools. It has been promoting digital literacy in remote and extremism affected areas with the help of community tutors. An MoU was signed on July 2, 2015.

Farmer Producer Organizations: The centre is all set to work with ICCO India on Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), inclusive value chain development, sustainable livelihoods, and rural entrepreneurship. An MoU was signed in New Delhi on September 22, 2015.

• CSEE and iSEC

IRMA’s Student Entrepreneurship Cell, also known as iSEC, is a vibrant ideating platform for students wishing to float their own enterprises. Part of iSEC’s activity includes organizing talks and sessions aimed at nurturing the aspirations of our budding entrepreneurs.

a. Talks were organized that included Swapnil Agarwal of Dhwani Rural Information Systems on March 7, 2016 and Shobit Mathur of Tallbird Services; March 9, 2016.

b. Session on ‘Entrepreneurial Motivation’ by Sunil Handa of Ekalavya was organized; January 25, 2016. c. Talk on ‘Business Model Innovation’ featuring Dr. Ganesh Prabhu, Professor IIM Bangalore; January 9,

2016. d. Talk by Economist Mark Lindley on the ‘Economic Man’ Postulate: Ecological Economics and Gandhian

Alternatives; December 25, 2016. e. Dr. Stephen Biggs of SOAS University of London delivered a lecture on ‘A history of rural development

debates: Recent disruptions and themes in an emerging policy agenda for rural industrialization’; November 26, 2016.

f. Talk on ‘The Art of Giving: Why India needs to build a “trash” based economy?’ by Anshu Gupta, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner 2015; September 7, 2015.

g. Talk by Neelam Chibber of Mother Earth on ‘Producer Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship-Insights from the Crafts Sector’; May 12, 2015.

h. Interactive session on micro finance sector in India by Vijay Mahajan of BASIX; May 11, 2015.

• Alltech Innovation Competition:

Alltech Education had approached IRMA for participating in its first competition in India. Out of nine teams one was chosen to represent IRMA at the Alltech Innovation Competition on November 2, 2015. IRMA’s team Saadhan won First Prize and a cheque of Rs 150000.

• Young Social Entrepreneurs workshop and Competition by SIF:

Two teams were selected from IRMA to participate at the Young Social Entrepreneurs (YSE) workshop and competition by the Singapore India Foundation on March 15-19 2016. One of the teams – comprising PRM participants Mohit Dave and Pranav Harshe – was shortlisted for the programme in Singapore.


The objective of the YSE programme of the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) is to encourage and facilitate social enterprises in Singapore and other countries for the youth of different nationalities.

Apart from all the above, CSEE has concluded a project on Rural and Agricultural Mechanization in Odisha in the context of policy implications involving the spread of small engines and other small equipment. This study was conducted, in collaboration with the Verghese Kurien Centre of Excellence, on behalf of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre between May 2015 and December 2015. Its findings were shared at national workshops in Bhubaneswar (December 3, 2015) and Allahabad (December 20, 2015). A publication for a special issue of Seminar, a monthly in-depth magazine, is underway showcasing the findings. The study also involved supporting two students during their Development Internship Segment in June 2015.

Some of the ongoing research efforts of the centre include the following:

• Seeding Social Innovation and Enterprise in Universities

CSEE’s proposal with The Hive (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and UnLTd UK seeks to create a collaborative ecosystem for post graduate teaching of social entrepreneurship and enterprises, establish incubation services in university settings, and conduct research in Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprises.

• The Emerging Role of Women Entrepreneurs in the New Indian Middle Class

The project, undertaken by IRMA in collaboration with the Institute for Human Development (IHD), has been funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) under its Sponsored Studies Programme (2012-2017). The study aims to uncover macro as well as micro-level perspectives on women entrepreneurs relevant to the emergence of the new Indian middle class. The research project is divided into three themes according to the objectives. All themes have covered substantial literature review pertaining to major issues related to women entrepreneurship with a focus on the definition of ‘middle class’ and ‘women entrepreneurship’. Relevant secondary data has been identified that is in the process of acquisition.

• Behavioural Analysis of Farmers Decision Making on Agricultural Innovations

This study, supported by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), critically analyzes and draws out the process involved in farmers’ decision- making during the selection, adoption, and continuation of agricultural innovations. The comparative study between Karnataka and Gujarat involves five crops: paddy, groundnut, cotton, maize and potato. Twenty-two villages were selected for the study (10 from Gujarat and 12 from Karnataka) through which farmers’ personality traits, situation factors, and the support systems across the two states will be compared. The study commenced on April 1, 2014 and its final report is under preparation.

• Value chain studies of agri products in Anantapur and Chittoor

A project is underway in the operational areas of APMAS (Andhra Pradesh Mahila Abhivruddhi Society). Based on “Promoting Sustainable Farmers’ Producer Organizations” the project’s interventions are designed to maximize value for the farmers based on gaps identified in value chains. A workshop was conducted in three locations to bring about awareness on edible coating.

• CSEE supported travel grant for study on “Organized Operations of Women Entrepreneurs for Innovative Agro Products in Karnataka State”

It may be mentioned that visits were made by Profs. Paresh Bhatt and MV Durga Prasad, members of CSEE, with the intention of studying agro-enterprises in Karnataka. The visits were concluded in August 2015.

Looking to the future

The centre is expecting to launch IRMA’s incubator this year as part of an ongoing project with British Council. The two-day event seeks to invite stakeholders to shape future incubation services in which IRMA will have a competitive advantage. This includes rural and social enterprises with a specific focus on agriculture and sustainable livelihood based enterprises. IRMA’s incubator is likely to focus on creating a peer support structure


for social entrepreneurs, collective and sustainable enterprises for students, start-ups (by IRMANs mostly), and mature social enterprises that have been operational for at least four to five years. While providing mentoring and networking services to these enterprises the IRMA incubator is expected to expand its activities based on supporting structures in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

There is also a focus on small agricultural start-ups faced with challenges related to accessing capital and managing value chains. Entrepreneurship support activities include enabling value chain studies and interventions for FPOs either established or getting established across the country. IRMA’s work on FPOs will be bolstered by its action research on contemporary FPOs.

Continuing its research on women’s entrepreneurships through an ICSSR grant, the centre intends to bring out a curriculum handbook on teaching social entrepreneurship in India as part of an ongoing British Council project. Ongoing collaborative work on comparing entrepreneurial ecosystems in India and the UK is expected to result in a few policy briefs. IRMA also seeks to bring out a few case studies on its incubatees in order to appreciate some of the challenges in social start-ups at different stages of their growth.

The centre expects to encourage budding entrepreneurs, the numbers of which have witnessed a significant rise in the campus. It is heartening to see new student batches taking CSEE activities seriously as witnessed during their participation in national and international events including the Alltech India Innovation Challenge and Singapore International Foundation.

CSEE is also looking to shaping the social entrepreneurship ecosystem through regular dialogues with academics in schools like IIMA, IIMB, XLRI, IITM, and TISS by creating an active collaborative space for start-ups in the social sector. This could include a national or international research workshop or conference organized annually or once in two years.


Centre of Public Policy and Local Governance

IRMA has been engaged in public policy research and intervention since its inception. The first seedlings were sown owing to IRMA’s massive engagement with ground-level research on Panchayats across the country that led to two multi-volumed major reports on the state of Panchayati Raj in India. The centre was formalized with a grant from the Ministry of Rural Development to IRMA in 2011-12. Thence commenced intensive research on various aspects of local governance with a definite focus on helping policy makers formulate policies based on research spawned evidence.

Some representative samples of this centre’s activities and publications include:

• SDC LoGin Project

The project sponsored by SIDA – login envisaged strengthening local government in India through focused research has been helping policy makers and implementers of public policies with strong evidence from the ground.

The project has two components comprising research at the grass-roots level and garnering the international experiences of local governance along with dissemination among policy makers and implementers at the state level.

The project essentially involved understanding different types of decentralization in terms of the structural and process aspects, different functional aspects in terms of services rendered by the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), functional aspects of deliberative democracy, and the role of Gram Sabhas in the process. It also addressed questions like what it means to deliberate democratically, how to design a deliberative political system from the grass roots, and how these ideas relate to the political realities in different communities. In order to understand the diversity of deliberative democracies the researchers also studied different innovative approaches adopted in various countries including the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly, Australian Citizens’ Parliament, Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review, and its adaptations in the specific context of diversity in India. Communication aspects deployed for strengthening the deliberative democratic process were also studied pertinent to the relative efficacy of posturing and sloganeering over reasons and arguments along with ways of overcoming deficiencies in rationally loaded communication over affectively loaded communication processes. The research also focused on the challenge of including underrepresented and deprived groups. Research findings were deliberated over a series of workshops conducted at IRMA with the policy makers and implementers at state and district levels including participants from SAARC countries.

• Project on Citizen’s Charter

This project, conducted with the help of grants from MoRD, focused on organizational capability with regard to effective Local Governance for Service Quality Improvement and the satisfaction of citizens that was relevant to their Panchayats. The study was conducted across 10 states. The findings suggest that PRIs are yet to deliver the desired quality of services across different areas of responsibilities. There was a significant difference across states in terms of satisfaction from the services of the Panchayats. Dwindling participation in Gram Sabhas and disenchantment of the electorate with the Panchayat proceedings were also evident. The study also highlighted the lack of involvement on the part of Gram Sabha members in the planning process.

• Making the female assembly workA collaborative project was undertaken with the Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), Bhuj, in order to understand the present state of functioning of Mahila Sabhas and the ways in which they can be strengthened. While female participation in Gram Sabhas can make Panchayats more effective women rarely get to participate in Gram Sabhas, largely, because of social customs and traditions. In a bid to give voice to women at the level of grassroots democracy the Ministry of Panchayati Raj had urged state governments to convene a separate Mahila Sabha for the female electorate. It was envisaged that women could deliberate on issues affecting them that, in turn, would get incorporated in the Gram Sabha resolutions. The present study explores the nature of the Mahila Sabha, factors behind women’s participation, the process of deliberative democracy at the village level, and the steps and processes that will strengthen the Mahila Sabha. The study uses a mixed method approach (capturing and analyzing both numbers and words).


• Undermining Panchayati Raj Institutions in India: This study questions the failure related to financial devolution for funding the PRIs and making them financially dependent on the state government.

• A dissemination workshop on “Enabling Development through Panchayati Raj in India” covered wide-ranging topics including self-governance, community participation in development, and decentralization among a host of other topics.

Some of the projects currently underway include:

• Case study

This has to do with a successful agribusiness cooperative in Goa and its implications with regard to policy. The case is part of a consultancy project awarded by the Goa Bagayatdar SKV Society Maryadit.

• Cardamom Cultivation in Sikkim

Sikkim is a small state in north-east Himalayas where its undulating mountains once offered the perfect climatic condition and fertile soil for large-scale cardamom cultivation. The state accounts for more than 80 percent of India’s large cardamom (Amomum subulatum) production making India one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of spices. Cardamom cultivation in Sikkim is an important source of earning. However, in the past decade the cultivation area of this important crop has dropped by almost half. Climate change has led to the destruction of cardamom orchards owed to pathogen attacks in the Himalayan ranges causing a fall in productivity. Besides, monoculture is not helping matters. In order to salvage the decline the Sikkim government and local communities have initiated adaptive and mitigative measures. As far as the former is concerned, the farmers have taken up alternative livelihood opportunities including experimenting with cash crops like ginger and oranges and engaging in horticulture at the commercial level. Mitigative measures involve spraying pesticides, cleaning the fields, keeping the land fallow for some years and replanting fields with fresh cardamom saplings. The Spice Board of India has been lending a helping hand. While the results of these measures are yet to be observed in large parts of the state, many farmers have been resolving the problem by shifting plantations to new areas like potato plantation fields where the soil is relatively healthy. The present project envisages understanding the nature of shifts and ways of alleviating the conditions of farmers. The project has policy implications for farmers in far-flung regions and those who are affected by climate change.

• Continuation of nation-wide study on female assemblies and empowerment

The centre envisages conducting a nation-wide study on women’s participation in Mahila Sabhas and Gram Sabhas and disseminating learning gleaned from the research among policy makers and implementers in order to sensitize them to the typical issues that women face in male-dominated institutions.

Publications

Book

Narender L Ahuja, Varun Dawar and Rakesh Arrawatia (2015) Corporate Finance, PHI Learning Private Limited, Delhi

Book Chapter

Shambu Prasad, C. 2015, “Creating Knowledge Spaces through Knowledge Dialogues”; in Suresh, K et al. (eds). Knowledge for Change: Essays in memory of Dr. N.K. Sanghi. Hyderabad: WASSAN and Permanent Green, pp 44-57.

Journal Articles

Gordon-Wilson, Sianne and Pratik Modi (2015) “Personality and Older Consumers’ Green Behaviour in the UK”, Futures, 71, pp. 1-10. (doi:10.1016/j.futures.2015.05.002) [ABS 2*, Impact factor 1.03]; August.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328715000683


Centre for Rural and Urban Dynamics

A major population shift from rural to urban areas is a reality of the times. Urbanization, hence, is not just about what happens in the cities but underscores a broader transformation. “Rural” and “urban” are not only intrinsically linked but have been undergoing wide-reaching and fundamental processes of change. These changes embrace factors as diverse as economic activity, livelihood, residential choices, and social interactions.

The Centre for Rural and Urban Dynamics (CRUD) explores the ways in which urban and rural areas are becoming increasingly integrated, the fallout, attendant challenges, and possible remedies.

Some of the work conducted by the centre in the reporting year includes the following:

• Restoring the Ganges: Healthier Rivers for Safer Water and more productive agro-ecosystems CRUD secured research funding for a project entitled “Restoring the Ganges: Healthier Rivers for

Safer Water and more productive agro-ecosystems” from CGIAR for the period 1st April 2015 to 31st December 2016. The centre is undertaking research on pollution/sanitation and ecosystem development issues in the Ganges basin. CRUD will be associating with International Water Management Institute (Colombo), WWF (N. Delhi) and IIT (Kanpur) on this assignment.

• Comprehending and analyzing issues of economic security and safety of females This is a consulting study supported by KMVS (Bhuj) and, as the title suggests, is targeted at women

engaged in income generation activities in the unorganized economic sectors of Bhuj in the Kutch District.

Publications coming under the centre include the following:• Shyam Singh (2015), “How Secure Social Security is? A Situational Analysis of Social Pensions in

Madhya Pradesh”; Indian Journal of Public Administration, 61 (4), Oct-Dec.• HS Shylendra (2015) “Fourteenth Finance Commission and Local Governments: One Step Forward

and Two Steps Back? Fourteenth Finance Commission and Local Governments: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?”

Conferences/Workshop• Workshop on Sanitation, Waste Management and Pollution Control in the Ganges Basin; Hotel

Lineage, Lucknow; August 24, 2015.Seminars/Presentations • Saswata N. Biswas and Preeti Priya (2015) “Materialism and Subjective Wellbeing in Rural India;

paper presented in the Centenary Conference of Psychology organized by the University of Calcutta; October 9-11, 2015.

• Indranil De and Tirthankar Nag (2016) “Local Self-governance, Ethnic Division in Slums and Preference for Water Supply Institutions in Kolkata, India”. 8th Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bengaluru); January 4-6, 2016.

Others

H S Shylendra nominated as member of the Research Programmes Committee of Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Mumbai, December 2015.

Monark Bag passes awayIRMA lost a highly promising faculty member and academician in September 2016. The youngest member of our faculty team, he had all but seen 30 summers. A resident of West Bengal’s Krishnanagar in the district of Nadiya Prof. Bag was an alumnus of the prestigious Jadavpur University. Before joining IRMA as Assistant Professor he had worked as Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad. He also had numerous publications and awards to his credit.

As a tribute to Prof. Bag, IRMA has instituted an award to the topper in Production and Operations Management of the outgoing batch in his name.


RBI Endowment UnitThe Reserve Bank of India Endowment Unit was launched in 1995 for purposes of research relevant to rural development and for providing consultancy services to rural enterprises and organizations in cooperative and development sectors. It involves areas like decentralization, land reforms, agriculture and so on.

The unit’s microsite (www.ruraldev-irma.in) hosts extensive resources related to rural development issues and showcases research on behalf of the unit.

Some of the unit’s work includes the following:

• IRMA has signed an MoU with Awadh Research Foundation (ARF), a leading NGO providing specialized services to international organizations in the development sector. The agreement, signed in February 2016, involves extensive fieldwork in 37 villages of Uttar Pradesh for the survey “Socio Economic Profile of Rural Households in India”. Under this agreement, ARF’s work will be supervised by a core team from IRMA with Dr. Hari K. Nagarajan, also the RBI Chair Professor, as its head.

• A project has been undertaken on behalf of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) by RBI Chair on “Gendered Impacts of NREGS in Rural India: Evidence and Implication for Policy”.

• A grant has been conferred by the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) for undertaking Research Support Project (RSP) on “The relationship between intra-household bargaining and program participation in rural India”. The results of the findings will be disseminated to local and national stakeholders for assistance regarding evidence-based policymaking.

• Brown University has commissioned the RBI unit for a project on “Public Programs, Growth, and Economic Inequality in Rural India”.

Dr. Verghese Kurien Centre of Excellence at IRMA (VKCoE)The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) has launched the Dr. Verghese Kurien Centre for Excellence (VKCoE) at IRMA to facilitate research in dairy management, cooperatives, and producer organizations in agriculture and related fields. The Centre is expected to work on emerging models of collectives and contemporary challenges of the dairy industry through research, consultancy, extension, outreach, and policy analysis. Some of the areas of work will be related to production and consumption in the organized and unorganized sectors of the dairy industry, issues of corporate governance following cooperative amendments, a market watch (including possible scenario modelling) on the dynamics of the sector, the socio-economic impact of dairy farmers, manpower and generational issues of the sector, entrepreneurial opportunities and constraints of the sector, and collective action and commons’ frameworks for managing collective enterprises.

The Dr. Verghese Kurien Centre will be coordinated by Chair Professor, Prof. Shambu Prasad, who joined IRMA on April 6, 2015. The centre will draw collaboratively upon the existing expertise available at IRMA in different areas supported by full-time research associates.

Verghese Kurien Policy Lab (VKPL) The Verghese Kurien Policy Lab was envisaged as one of the outcomes of a collaborative effort between IRMA and the Michigan State University (East Lansing) as part of an MoU signed on April 2014. The cell will undertake research based on micro data and help evaluate policies along with programmes of the Central Government and various state governments. A significant role of this cell is to build research capacity at IRMA. It is envisaged that the cell and its activities will enable IRMA to recruit as well as attract visiting researchers of repute. The cell will also engage in outreach. This will be in the form of building research capacities in organizations working in the rural sector. In addition, the cell will act as an information portal on a range of issues such as functioning of agricultural markets, technology, land markets, Panchayats, CSR, monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment, field survey methods, and sampling.


Grameen Gyan KoshThe Grameen Gyan Kosh (GGK) is an IRMA-initiated online repository of knowledge on rural India. Housing a knowledge hub GGK purveys diverse perspectives on rural India. Started in April 2014 it became fully functional in August 2014.

GGK caters to five different platforms for published and unpublished resources encompassing features like blog, rural vignettes, news, and a discussion forum. In its first year the repository created a resource base on four themes: Land and Land Governance, Agriculture and Technology Adoption, Health and Education, and Rural Infrastructure. In the current year, ‘Dairying’ has been added as a fifth theme. Efforts are on to upload dairying related material on the resource section of the website.

GGK has published blogs on contemporary subjects contributed by field experts and professionals. The blogs deal with topics that include rural livelihoods, local governance, MGNREGS, CSR, food security, climate resilient rural economy, livelihood education, and famer producer organizations. GGK’s ‘Rural Vignettes’ has short video clippings divulging subject matter pertinent to rural life, policy, and development. A host of video clippings depicting rural pertinent themes like MGNREGS, watershed management, collective actions, SHGs, and women cultivators have already gone live on the GGK website.

Showcasing creative synergy GGK has linked up with social media platforms presenting regular updates on developments related to rural policy and development. In addition, GGK has connected IRMA students to the discussion forum where they can discuss policy related issues.

In a bid to encourage student engagement competitions were announced for PRM35 and PRM36 students who had concluded their field segments in 2015-16. The students were invited to submit videos, cases and stories emerging out of their field experiences. After the submissions were reviewed seven submissions (four videos and three cases) were finally selected for the award. The winners were awarded Rs 5000 along with a certificate of appreciation.

As part of its PRM program IRMA organizes Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) field visits for PRM students every year. This approach intends to embrace the knowhow and opinions of village people and involving them in the study. This year, PRAs were organized in six villages of Anklav and Khambhat Taluka.

Fourth Verghese Kurien Memorial LectureThe Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture is held every year on the occasion of Dr. Kurien’s birth anniversary to commemorate the exemplary work conducted by the father of the White Revolution in India.

IRMA organized its Fourth Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture on November 21, 2015. Dr. Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, delivered the Verghese Kurien Memorial Lecture on “Reforms in

Indian Agriculture”.

Dr. Subramanian’s speech highlighted the problems and challenges of Indian agriculture. He cautioned against the buildup of the “perfect storm” in agriculture in terms of climate change, changing dietary patterns, inability to respond to the mismatch of demand and supply, and the onion-tomato-vegetable-pulses problem. His speech targeted the importance of economizing the usage of resources, science and technology, impact of climate change, reliance of population on agriculture versus industry, re-assessing the provision of subsidies, investing in resource-constrained areas, and the need for institutional change. In order to meet the growing demand for pulses he articulated the need for “Amul for Pulses”. His speech was followed by an interesting question hour session.

The lecture was attended by academicians, practitioners, eminent thinkers, policy makers, students, and employees of IRMA, NDDB, GCMMF, and other sister organizations.


Thursday Afternoon and Special SeminarsThe Thursday Afternoon and Special Seminars, popularly referred to as TASS, have their origins in the 90s. TASS has served as a platform for exchanging ideas, engaging in discussions, and indulging in knowledge-sharing. Right up to the present time, TASS remains an intellectually stimulating forum for IRMA’s faculty, visiting professors, and students who continue to share valuable viewpoints on contemporary issues relevant to

rural management and development. What has changed over the years is that these seminar series are no longer – necessarily – held on Thursday afternoons (See Annexure 2, List 1).

IRMA’s Publication ProgrammeCORPAS

The Committee on Research, Publications and Seminars (CORPAS), which manages the Institute’s publication programme aimed at propagating its research

work. Its pre-publication format delineates the Working Paper focusing mainly on research-in-progress. CORPAS also acts as a sounding board for research ideas and research work and for acquiring valuable feedback and advice.

The CORPAS takes care of publications, seminar series, and research and consultancy projects (see Annexure 2, List 2).

IJRMThe International Journal of Rural Management (IJRM) is the first international journal which has an exclusive focus on rural management. Emphasis, therefore, is on the management and organization of rural ventures and community-based organizations. The journal publishes research articles, field notes, and book reviews pertaining to rural management and development.

TASSTASS

Right up to the present time, TASS remains an intellectually stimulating forum for IRMA’s

faculty, visiting professors, and students who continue to share valuable viewpoints on contemporary issues relevant

to rural management and development.



Faculty Recognition and other engagementsFaculty Recognition and other engagements

Girish Agrawal• Moderated panel discussion on financial inclusion under Corporate

Social Responsibility in Conclave organized by Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance, Symbiosis International University, Pune; July 25, 2015.

• Invited to join Governing Board of ‘Xavier Institute of Management’, Jabalpur, as Board Member for a period of 3 years from October 2015.

• Invited by CRISIL India (Credit Rating Information services of India Limited) as jury for adjudging CSR performance of CREDAI India members initiatives in Mumbai; December 9-10, 2015.

• Awarded ‘Aspire Founding Fellow’ at annual function of Aspire Fellows in Mumbai; Dec 17-19, 2015.

Yes Aspire to InnovateIra Tayal, a participant of PRM 36, did IRMA proud by winning the prestigious Yes Aspire Scholarship 2016. Running into its second year, YES ASPIRE to Innovate initiative has rewarded 30 management scholars for their entrepreneurial vision, leadership qualities, holistic academic performance and passion to excel. The competition, which began with 250 students, involved three rounds of rigorous screening and short-listing. All the rounds were conducted online, except the personal interview which happened telephonically. The winning participants were felicitated at a ceremony in Mumbai on 30th March 2016. Miss Tayal was awarded a scholarship of INR 2,00,000 and an opportunity to participate in various exclusive knowledge events throughout the year. She was also awarded mentorship by the senior manager of Yes Bank.

Ira Tayal became the second participant from IRMA to be awarded the scholarship in two consecutive years.


Jeemol Unni• Was Expert Committee Member, ICSSR; attended

the Mid-Term Appraisal Conference of its Research Programme on Urban Labour Market at Giri Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lucknow; June 26, 2015.

• Panelist on “SDGs on Economic Empowerment of Women and

• Engendering Development” for event on Emerging Perspective from the Global South: Promoting Employment, Education and Skills for Inclusive Development” jointly organized by Department of International Development of the Government of the United Kingdom (DFID) and the Institute of Human Development (IHD), New Delhi; July 7, 2015.

• Presented Distinguished Alumni Award to Shri RS Sodhi, Managing Director, GCMMF, 1st batch IRMAn, at IMC Distinguished Alumni Awards 2015, organized by Indian Management Conclave (IMC), Hyderabad; July 29-30, 2015.

• Panelist for “Poverty Alleviation through Livelihood Interventions”, organized by AXIS Bank Foundation, New Delhi; August 10, 2015.

• Speaker for panel on “Minimum Wages” at the 57th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), organized by the Department of Economics, Central University of Kashmir, in collaboration with the Division of Agricultural Economics, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar; October 10-12, 2015.

HS Shylendra• Nominated external examiner for Ph D thesis of

Faculty of Management Symbiosis International University, Pune; December, 2015.

Indranil De• Presented paper with Uday Shankar Prasad on

“Technology matters: ensuring drinking water supplies to rural households” at the 38th WEDC International Conference on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services Beyond 2015: Improving access and sustainability”, Loughborough University, United Kingdom; July 27-31, 2015.

• Presented paper with Tirthankar Nag on “Local Self-governance, Ethnic Division in Slums and Preference


for Water Supply Institutions in Kolkata, India” at the 8th Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru; January 4-6, 2016.

• Presented paper with Saswata N. Biswas on “Agribusiness, climate change, and collective institutions: A cast study of cardamom cultivation in North Sikkim. International Conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies” at IRMA, Anand ; January 6-7, 2016.

Rakesh Saxena• Invited to be member on editorial board of the

Amity Journal of Agribusiness.

• Attended meeting of Technical Advisory Group for the Biodiversity Finance Initiative in India at the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, New Delhi; July 13, 2015.

• Attended meeting of Board of Studies in Economics, MS University of Baroda, as Member; July 24, 2015.

• Attended first meeting of Task Force for Poverty Elimination, Government of Chhattisgarh at Raipur as IRMA representative; August 01, 2015.

• Conducted Naranpur Express simulation game at KGVK, Rukka, Ranchi (Jharkhand) for “Train the Trainers” programme organized by the Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD) for the “Green Colleges” incubated by the National Skills Foundation of India (NSFI); October 26, 2015.

• Presented paper entitled “Urbanization and Environmental Performance across Indian States and Union Territories: A Regression Analysis” at the 8th Biennial Conference of INSEE (the Indian Society for Ecological Economics) on “Urbanization and the Environment” at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore; January 4-6, 2016.

• Attended “Gujarat-State Credit Seminar 2016-17” at Narmada Hall, Swarnim Sankul, Sachivalay, Gandhinagar (organized by NABARD Ahmedabad); January 21, 2016.

• Attended workshop on “Sustainable Agriculture: Harnessing Technologies- Harvesting Prosperity” organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) at Hyatt Regency, Ahmedabad; January 27, 2016.

• Attended annual meeting of Client Consultation Committee (CCC), BIRD, Lucknow as member of CCC; February 6, 2016.


• Attended Board meeting of India Natural Resource Economics and Management (INREM) Foundation at Paramkrishna Apartments, Anand; March 31, 2016.

Saswata N. Biswas• Invited as jury member for the award of best research paper in

Psychology at the Centenary Conference of Psychology organized by the University of Calcutta; October 9-11, 2015.

• Chaired session on Diversities in Concepts and Applications of Psychology at the Centenary Conference of Psychology organized by the University of Calcutta; October 9-11.

Shambu Prasad• Co-organizer of workshop on “Tribal Livelihoods in Udaipur: Sharing

Experience and Learnings” at IIM, Udaipur and delivered talk on ‘Co-creating New Practice: Experiences of Livelihoods MANTHAN’; June 14, 2015.

• Invited as speaker at the “Summit on Sustainability Leadership” organized by the Xavier School of Sustainability at Bhubaneswar; July 5-6, 2015. Presented a talk on “A Green Economy of Permanance: Sustainability, Livelihoods and Civil Society” at the summit on July 5, 2015.

• Invited as expert panel member to discuss and evaluate value chain proposals of UMED the Maharashtra Livelihood Mission’s as part of the Special Livelihoods Initiative at Mumbai; October 6, 2015.

• Invited as panelist at G20’s consultative meeting of the Think-20 entitled “T20 meeting: Turkey, India and the G20” in working session on “Technology, Services and Skills”, Mumbai; October 19, 2015.

• Invited as panelist for “Consultation on Potential of Agro-Ecology and Innovative Extension & Institutional Systems for Farm Profitability and Sustainability” with NITI Aayog member Dr VK Saraswat, Hyderabad; December 22, 2015.

• Submitted joint proposal on “Seeding Social Innovation and Enterprise in Universities” between CSEE, IRMA and TheHive, Nottingham Trent University, UK to the British Council as part of a competitive grant on social entrepreneurship. IRMA and NTU have been awarded a grant of 20,000 pounds for one year starting November 23, 2015.

• Was mentor to the Alltech student team “Saadhan” that represented IRMA and won the Alltech Innovation competition on December 2, 2015.

• Invited as speaker and panelist at the International workshop of Society for History of Technology (SHOT) on “Exploring Craft and Innovation” at IIT Chennai and Kalakshetra; January 29- Feb 2, 2016.


Computer CentreAs part of planned initiatives related to enhancement of campus network services IRMA witnessed a plethora of service upgrades, especially in the context of the institute’s website, which was constantly upgraded with a greater number of features and a user interface. This included intranet upgradation and provisioning of e-services on the intranet.

Upgrades involved moving up from Stata 13 to Stata 14 with a

Institutional DevelopmentInstitutional Development

total number of 50 concurrent users’ licenses to support teaching and training. Additionally, an ICAR conference registration and payment module was developed during the reporting year. Besides, IRMA procured professional quality single user express scribe transcription software. Based on an audit performed by Microsoft additional licenses were issued for Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, and Windows’ server. Acquiring the MATLAB R2015b with a neural network toolbox was meant

for helping users work in a single interactive environment with an enhanced narrative.

Plagiarism posing a major challenge to research, IRMA has been meticulous about installing the appropriate software to check it. The high quality iThenticate Pro Edition with a 300 document submission facility was acquired to this end. One of the advantages of the iThenticate is that it allows for a comparison of the uploaded document with more than 40 million published research articles

Plagiarism posing a major challenge to research, IRMA has been meticulous about installing the appropriate software to check it. The high quality iThenticate Pro Edition with a 300 document submission facility was acquired

to this end.


from around 600 global scientific, technical, and medical publishers. It is, hence, a critical research component for our faculty and researchers.

IRMA’s computer centre hasn’t only been making upgraded offerings to the faculty, however. Network facilities throughout the institute are constantly faced with upgrades. To begin with, Wi-Fi facilities in the new classroom complex have been upgraded with additional access points, while students were individually given LAN connectivity on their desks.

Internet facilities were upgraded within the institute considerably to meet increasing demands. The total bandwidth available to the institute was 85mbps for the reporting year.

Value additions were made to intranet facilities while learning management software was implemented to facilitate faculty to take online attendance, quiz, and assignments among other things. The computer centre was also intent on developing MIS for VFS, MTS, DIS and Placement.

The admissions’ form submission activity was outsourced to the firm Formsdotstar. The centre also developed various modules for the PRM office including student feedback for the course and faculty, optional course registration, election for various student committees, document status management etc. Grade module development work was also started this year and the Management Development Module was integrated with the Finance module.

Online examinations were conducted with the help of learning management software for the NREGA project while a module was developed for the DSAG recruitment project.

As far as hardware was concerned, five laptops, three slates, 11 tablets, and one mobile phone were acquired for the faculty. We also acquired five laser printers and two network laser printers for the faculty and students along with a thermal barcode printer for the library.


LibraryThe country’s most vibrant and resourceful library in the area of rural management is housed in IRMA’s Ravi J. Mathai Library. Eponymously named after one of the foremost management education administrators of the country, the library was set up in 1986. Taking major strides since then it has become an abundant storehouse of print material comprising books, pamphlet collections, government publications, reference resources, and maps. The non-print material includes videos, CDs, microfilms, microfiches, e-journals, and databases. The journals catering to a vast range of topics are available in traditionally bound volumes along with their digitized versions.

Library management is controlled through the refined LibSys software offering high tech solutions including Library Automation System, RFID, Digital Resource Management and so on. The solutions offered are delivered with precision, punctuality, and efficiency.

Accessible throughout the campus through our highly efficient computer network the library’s intranet is powered through LibSys Web-Opac.

Library StatisticsThe Ravi J. Mathai Library added 370 titles to its catalogue of books in the reporting year, taking up the number to 46711 from 46341. Users are able to access today 19357 Bound Volumes, 427 video cassettes, 117 CD-ROMs, 919 microfiche and microfilms, 2363 MTS reports, 472 Fieldwork reports, 396 OTS reports, 15 DIS reports, 39 CPDM reports, and 27 FPRM theses. The library also subscribes to 164 print and over 15810 e-journals.

Library CollectionThe present collection in the library spans an impressive range, both in the digital and physical sense, of topics in the social sciences, the management sciences, Economics, cooperatives, gender & development, agri-business Management, and Information Technology. Government publications cover census reports, agricultural reports, livestock reports, gazetteers, economic surveys, and the statistical data of various Government departments, among other things. The library is also home to a vast collection of reference and information material including encyclopaedia, dictionaries, handbooks, almanacs, IRMA reports, and annual reports besides Panchayati Raj reports. Working papers, which are part of IRMA Publications, are also available online through the LibSys Web-Opac.

Journals and PeriodicalsThe library subscribes to specialized foreign and Indian journals subsumed under rural management with over 15810 e-journals. The details are as follows:

E-journals

ABI-INFORM (Pro-quest): 7920 full text journals in the area of management and allied subjects


JSTOR: Complete JSTOR through INFLIBNET: 2510 full text journals

EBSCO package: 5280 full text journals in the area of Social science, Business studies, Computers and Applied Sciences, Environment etc.

Elsevier (Business, Management and Accounting): 100 full text e- journals.

Databases

CMIE Products: This is a financial information database.

Prowess CommoditiesEconomic OutlookStates of India

Indiastat.com: statistical information of various disciplines.

EPWRF: (Economic and Political Weekly Research Foundation): This is a Time Series database in the field of social sciences.

DELNET

IRMA is a member of DELNET or Developing Library Network, a prime resource-sharing hub based in Delhi and has 5,150 members. In

other words, we have a wide ambit of access to resources available in the best libraries all across the country. This also means that books are available on inter-library loan basis as well as photocopies of journal articles. Our DELNET membership has proved extremely helpful to our scholars who utilize its services to the full.

Library Users

Ever since 1986, the library catered to various users in the field of rural management. Users of the Ravi J. Mathai Library include students, faculty, staff, scholars all across India, and sister organizations among several others. The library also provides institutional and alumni memberships.

Library Services and Facilities

Apart from catering to routine services the library provides facilities like inter-library loans, photocopying, document scanning, and internet surfing among other things. Besides, it provides exclusive study carrels for research scholars

and faculty members so that they can devote their time to research undisturbed. Wi-Fi services enable students and staff to surf the net from any corner of the library. They can make use of the various databases, professional and popular magazines, and prominent news dailies sitting in the library.

New Library Initiatives

The library has been keeping track of IRMA’s distinguished alumni by sharing news items about their achievements. From time to time, it brings to the notice of its readers newly launched books of scholastic interest along with their reviews.

Book Exhibition

The Ravi J. Mathai Library marked the country’s 69th Independence Day by organizing a five-day book exhibition. The titles featured leaders of the independence movement like Jawahar Lal Nehru and MK Gandhi and scholars like Annie Besant and Rajmohan Gandhi. Students and faculty were enthralled to see books like Patel: A Life and Proudest Day: India’s Long Road to Independence.

Rajan Memorial LectureIRMA has been organizing the Rajan Memorial Lecture in memory of TS Rajan, an IRMA alumnus who met his untimely death in 1990. The event, organized on April 17, 2015, featured Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Director General and CEO of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, an institution set up by the Government of India in 2008 to act as a think tank and capacity building nucleus for corporate regulations and reforms.

Dr. Chatterjee, speaking of his journey into CSR touched upon his experiences with the tribal community and marginalized classes as an IAS officer in the Orissa cadre. “I feel privileged,” he told students assembled in the audience, “about being here since IRMA students understand the spirit with which the Companies’ Act was drafted.”

The Act, which is a first of its kind the world over, has been hailed as the largest and the most ambitious CSR experiment ever, affecting nearly 16,000 to 25,000 companies involving an expenditure of Rs. 15,000 to 28,000 crores annually on activities defined in Schedule VII and falling under the area of social development.

Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee


MilaapThe two-day alumni meet is, undoubtedly, the largest event at IRMA. Scheduled between January 23rd and 24th it attracted a sizeable turnout from PRM 15, some of whom preferred to relive their student days in the hostels instead of the ETDC guest house. A plethora of cultural activities marked the event climaxing in the exciting Anand Run intended to spread a social awareness message during Milaap.

The ninth edition of the Anand Run event, with ‘Swachh Anand, Swasth Anand’ as its central theme, was

EventsEvents

hosted at IRMA this year. Inspired by the Central Government’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’, the run was organized in two formats, the long one covering a stretch of 14.5 kilometres and the short format involving five kilometers.

JatraThis joyful, cheer-abiding inter-block event was organized on March 1-2, 2016. The highly competitive event witnessed the participation of two teams from the staff quarters as well. The festival was inaugurated with the lighting of the ceremonial torch by Prof. Mukul Kumar and Prof. Shyam Singh. Block

participation was planned according to draws and the battle was kicked off with a treasure hunt followed by the event ‘How Fast Can You Go Slowly’ in which participants had to complete a cycle race by moving as slowly as possible.

Other highlights included ‘Mock Rock’ and ‘Jhakkaaas Bollywood’ that showcased the students’ talents in dance, music, and acting. The following day was highlighted with contests like Tug of War, Block Song, Ad Mad and Fashion Show.

At the end of the event, the H-block lifted the Jatra 2014 trophy.


Annexure 1: TablesTable 1: Host organizations for Induction Fieldwork PRM 2015-17, FPRM 2015

Name of Milk Union Accompanying Faculty No. of Villages

Total No. of

Students

Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd, Amul Dairy, Anand Prof. Mukul Kumar & Mr. PS Mohan 10 3

Mehsana District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd, Mehsana Mr. K L Vaghela 7 21

Sabarkantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Himmatnagar Prof. Rakesh Saxena 7 20

Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Palanpur Prof. Durga Prasad MV 7 21

Vadodara District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd,Vadodara Prof. Indranil De 4 12

Surat District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd, Surat Prof. Rakesh Arrawatia 7 20

Valsad District Cooperative Milk Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union,, Valsad Prof. Asmita Vyas 7 21

Rajkot District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Rajkot Prof. Monark Bag 7 19

Amreli District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd Mr. Rajesh Patel 7 17

Total 63 181

Table 2: Host Organizations for Fieldwork (PRM 2015-17)

State Organization District Students placed

Andhra Pradesh

Timbaktu Collectives Anantapur 9

Bihar ADITHI Muzaffarpur 9

Bihar Deshratna Dr. Rajendra Prasad Dugdh Utpadak Barauni 9

Gujarat DHRUVA Dang 9

Gujarat Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan Nakhtrana 9

Himachal Pradesh

Rural Centre for Human Interest (RUCHI) Solan 15

Karnatka MYRADA Chitradurga, Gulbarga

6

Kerala Malabar Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd Attapadi 5

Orissa Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD) Koraput 11

Orissa Gram Vikas Ganjam 11

Rajasthan Aajjeevika Bureau Udaipur 6

Rajasthan Aastha Sansthan Udaipur 6

Rajasthan Jatan Sansthan Rajsamand 3

Rajasthan Kotra Adivasi Sansthan Udaipur 3

Rajasthan People’s Education and Development Organization (PEDO), Mada, Dungarpur Dungarpur 15

Rajasthan Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Dungarpur 9

Rajasthan Seva Mandir Udaipur 9

Rajasthan Urmul Seemant Samiti Bikaner 3

Rajasthan Urmul Setu Sansthan Bikaner 8

Uttar Pradesh Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group Gorakhpur 6

Uttar Pradesh Shramik Bharti Kanpur Dehat 6

Uttarakhand People’s Science Institute Dehra Dun 6


Table 3: Faculty Participant Collaborative Research (FPCR) Topics for PRM 2015-17

Theme topic Group Faculty Guide

Factors leading to farmers’ distress Rahul Sharma (p36143) Prof. Anand Venkatesh

Study about main economic drivers in the village and their effect

Raghav Goyal (p36142) Prof. Anand Venkatesh

Cost comparison between cow and buffalo milk Saurabh Tomar (p36060) Prof. Asmita Vyas

Cost comparison between cow and buffalo milk Pratyush Prateek (p36139) Prof. Asmita Vyas

Cost comparison between cow and buffalo milk Vijaykumar K. Prajapati (p36083) Prof. Asmita Vyas

Cost comparison between cow and buffalo milk Gaurav Sharma (p36113), Karri Sathya Prasad (p36121)

Prof. Asmita Vyas

Impact of microfinance on capital expenditure and household expense pattern

Anchit Joshi (p36010), Punya Vats (p36141), Mandeep Singh (p36127)

Prof. Asmita Vyas


Apurv Gupta (p36016), Kuldeep Baliram Patil (p36034)

Prof. Asmita Vyas


Vimal Braj Kumar (p36086) Prof. Asmita Vyas


Navakrishna Chowdary Devabathini (p36046), Kshitiz Kumar Gupta (p36033), Neeraj Kumar (p36047)

Prof. Asmita Vyas


Sumeet Sourav (p36166) Prof. Asmita Vyas


Jeetender Yadav (p36119), Smeet Prakash Chaklasia (p36068)

Prof. Asmita Vyas


Riya Rateria (p36147), Pallavi Yadav (p36137) Prof. Asmita Vyas


Anuj Vijay Bhatia (F1401) Prof. Asmita Vyas

PMJDY -a new way towards financial freedom for rural poor?

Abhishek Chainkumar Kaundal (p36002), Anay Kumar Mishra (p36008), Ankit Bazad (p36099)

Prof. Asmita Vyas


Anchal (p36009), Ritika Golash (p36056), Samreen (p36057)

Prof. Asmita Vyas


Arjit Panwar (p36103), Krishna Kamlesh Patel (p36125

Prof. Asmita Vyas


Malay Varnan Modi (p36126), Shashank Kant (p36154), Rana Thakre (p36146)

Prof. Asmita Vyas

Adoption of Information Technology in financial inclusion - motivation and challenges

Bhav Simran (p36019), Sushma Sen Adarshi (p36072), Tanay Mishra (p36169), Aditi Durgapal (p36094), Anoop K G (p36101)

Prof. Harekrishna Misra

Exploratory study of entrepreneurial activities in village and it’s scope

Yash Vivek Joglekar (p36176) Prof. Harekrishna Misra

Sanitation- a concept, not a device Ankita Jain (p36012) Prof. Harekrishna Misra

Study of Gram Panchayat in a Rajasthan village ; Does it make a difference

Mukesh (p36042) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Analysis of infant health, a study in Attappadi tribal region

Nithin K (p36048) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Drivers of local economy Mohit Mukesh Dave (p36040) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Quality of lower primary education in Gadsisar village(Rajasthan)

Salitha Sasidharan (p36151) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Overcoming agrarian crisis: current challenges and future prospects of farming

Akshay Gautam (p36004) Prof. HS Shylendra




Ayush Jain (p36018) Prof. HS Shylendra


Mukesh Kumar Barnwal (p36043) Prof. HS Shylendra


Nautamiben Alpeshkumar Patel (p36045) Prof. HS Shylendra


Pankaj Rautela (p36050) Prof. HS Shylendra


Shivam Srivastava (p36064) Prof. HS Shylendra


Souradip Majumdar (p36069), Vaibhav Kaushal (P36079)

Prof. HS Shylendra


Vrundavan Dattatraya Bhatt (P36089) Prof. HS Shylendra


Apoorv Kumar (P36102) Prof. HS Shylendra


Arkajyoti Dhar (P36104) Prof. HS Shylendra


Dhruv Joshi (P36111) Prof. HS Shylendra


Harsh Raj (P36114), Kumar Sunny (p36035) Prof. HS Shylendra


Hiren Borkhatariya (P36117) Prof. HS Shylendra


Nishant Sachdeva (P36134), Abhinaba Dey (P36090) Prof. HS Shylendra


Shefali Gupta (P36155) Prof. HS Shylendra


Sudip Dipesh Patel (P36164) Prof. HS Shylendra


Vasudev Singh Bhati (P36173) Prof. HS Shylendra


Vishal Tailor (P36175) Prof. HS Shylendra

Have PRI institutions played an effective role in democratic decentralization:A Himachal Pradesh perspective

Lav Bhardwaj (P36036) Prof. Indranil De

Impact evaluation of drinking water and sanitation Sheel Bhadra (P36063) Prof. Indranil De

Rural housing: an assessment Kaustubh Kumar (36122) & Keerti Jain (36123) Prof. Indranil De

Profile of community leadership and successors Aloukik Mohapatra (p36005) Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Profile of community leadership and successors Siddharth Uprit (p36066) Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Profile of community leadership and successors Sidheshwari Chouhan (p36067) Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Profile of community leadership and successors Shoukath Ali C A (p36158) Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Profile of community leadership and successors Suvish S (p36168) Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Analysing the socio economic status of women in the society and effect of women empowerment on households

Sruthi Laura George (P36070) & Syam Mohan (P36073)

Prof. Mukul Kumar

Farmers and agriculture Animesh Raj Gupta (p36011) Prof. Mukul Kumar



Influence of superstitions and beliefs on villagers Sudeep Das (P36071) & Vaibhav Kamalkishor Rathi (P36080)

Prof. Mukul Kumar

Women’s empowerment through community-based micro-finance

Harshveen Kalra (p36030) & Husain Kitabi (p36032), Pankaj Raosaheb Adhau (p36051)

Prof. Mukul Kumar

Discrimination faced by widow women in the rural context

Sneha Maheshwari (P36161) Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal

Promotion of local handicraft by governmental and non-governmental agencies and its socio-political implications

Ira Tayal (P36118) Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal

Are natural resource management interventions in the village making community resilient to shocks?

Anant Shekhar Verma (P36007), Shah Darshit Jayantkumar (P36062), Tejas Sanjeev Deshmukh (P36076)

Prof. Pramod K Singh

Are natural resource management interventions in the village making community resilient to shocks?

Vikram Jeet (P36084), Vikram Sheoran (P36085) Prof. Pramod K Singh

Building community resilience against climate variability and change

Sayani Datta (P36152), Abhinav Kumar (P36092) Prof. Pramod K Singh


Tapsi Gaurangkumar Makwana (P36075), Deepak Rawat (P36022), Manoj Kumar (P36128)



Rohan Shah (P36148), Manisha Shah (P36038), Mohammad Anwar Khan (P36131)



Manoj Kumar Katara (P36129), Chirag Shailesh Khajanchi (P36108)



Lubna Shaheen (P36037), Khushboo Asawa (P36124), Niyati Dhurve (P36049), Tejaswi Kancherla (P36077


Drought: impacts and adaptations and community resilience

Preity Khandelwal (P36053), Tony Thomas (P36170), Rushabh Rashmikant Shah (P36149), Sandeep Nandan (P36058)



Abhinav Chauhan (P36091), Brijesh Kaira (P36107), Sharanesh R (P36153)



Pulkit Sachchidanand Bhatnagar (P36140), Shreyans Anuj Jain (P36065)


Impact of watershed management Abhishek Godara (P36093), Dhanush A R (P36023), Dhaval Harshadbhai Parmar (P36110)


Exploratory study of village economy in rural context Aishwarya Sagar (P36095) Prof. Pratik Modi

Scope of entrepreneurship in rural tourism and its socioeconomic impacts on rural livelihood

Disha Jayesh Shah (P36024) Prof. Pratik Modi

Study about the main economic drivers in the village and their effect

Sakshi Chugh (P36150) Prof. Pratik Modi

Factors influencing subjective well-being Amal Joshy (P36006) Prof. Preeti Priya

Postponement at farm level | An investigation of factors influencing farmers’ decision to postpone the sale of harvest

Varun Modi (P36172), Sunder Ram M (P36167), Savita Poonia (P36061)

Prof. Preeti Priya


Soumya Ranjan Parida (P36162), Alok (P36096), Deep Nimeshbhai Shah (P36021)

Prof. Preeti Priya

Postponement at farm level | An investigation of factors influencing farmer’’ decision to postpone the sale of harvest

Ranadip Shankar Choudhury (P36054), Aman (P36098), Om Prakash (P36136), Nutan Kumar (P36135)

Prof. Preeti Priya


Abhishek Sharma (P36001), Arul Joseph Antony P (P36017), Nagesh Sharma (P36044), Venkata Nitheesh Immadi (P36082)

Prof. Preeti Priya



Assessing risks and vulnerabilities due to natural disasters

Ankit Mudgal P36100 Prof. RakeshArrawatia

Impact of depletion of natural resources and climate change on livelihood activities

Prakhar Ranjan (P36138) Prof. RakeshArrawatia

State of sanitation facilities in rural areas, issues and its implications

Rajshree Nancy R N (P36145) Prof. RakeshArrawatia

House and homeyness Vinayak Dubey (P36087) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

House and homeyness Deepak Kumar Thakur (P36109) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

House and homeyness Shrishti Gupta (P36159) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

House and homeyness Trisha Kumar (P36171) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

Rural consumers’ perception of mobile advertisements: advice to marketers and public policy makers

Divyangkumar Subhashchandra Panchal (P36025) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas


Pranav Rajiv Harshe (P36052) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas


Arnab Bhattacharyya (P36105) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas


Divyesh Sirohi (P36026) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas


Mayank Pratap Singh (P36130) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas


Sourabh Tater (P36163) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

Financial inclusion: a reality? Shruti Nadagouda (F1403) Prof. SR Asokan

Methods of entrepreneurship and innovation by women in rural Rajasthan

Shweta Shailesh Menon (P36160) Prof. SR Asokan

Revival of coarse grains Firose Shahul (P36027) Prof. SR Asokan

Understanding relationship between farmer and agricultural input provider

Divyang Sinha (P36112) Prof. SR Asokan

Education: 1. Status and views on education and the learning process of students: a learner’s perspective 2. Exploratory study of primary education in a village of Udaipur

Himanshu Gupta (P36116) Prof. Saswata Biswas

The impact of income, perceived Inequality and socio-economic status on subjective wellbeing of individuals

Aditya Singh (P36003), Mrinmoy Purkayastha (P36041)

Prof. Saswata Biswas

Impact of risk in farming and challenges in labor market on the mental health of farmers and their coping strategies

Gaurav Vinaykumar Jaiswal (P36029) Prof. Shambu Prasad

Scope of entrepreneurship in rural tourism and its socioeconomic impact on rural life (challenges and opportunities)

Atash Mahesh Shah (P36106) Prof. Shambu Prasad

Accessibility and quality of basic health services in rural India

Ankur Gupta (P36013) Prof. Shyam Singh


Gajendra C Parmar (P36028), Ankur Singh (P36014) Prof. Shyam Singh


Ritika Goel (P36055) Prof. Shyam Singh


Taanya Khanna (P36074) Prof. Shyam Singh


Vatsal Bhatore (P36081) Prof. Shyam Singh




Amal Mohan (P36097) Prof. Shyam Singh


Neeta Prakash Vaswani (P36133) Prof. Shyam Singh


Sukriti Dang (P36165) Prof. Shyam Singh


Vikrant (P36174), Anurup Togarpally (P36015) Prof. Shyam Singh

Gender equality and the impact of financial contribution of women to household incomes in rural Karnataka

Shefali Roy (P36156) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Impact evaluation of the SHG-Bank linkage scheme in rural Karnataka

Sanjana Prabhu (P36059) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Impact evaluation of water and sanitation Shivani Lochab (P36157) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Role of women in animal husbandry Bhavya Atul Shelat (P36020) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Understanding working of Panchayat in village and satisfaction of Gramsabha members

Raj Pravinbhai Jivani (P36144) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Table 4: Development Internship Segment: PRM 2014-16

Organization Name of Students Project Title Faculty Guide

Aakar Innovations, Navi Mumbai Capacity building in implementation of last mile sales consumers

Disha Meshram (P35125), Sukriti Mehta (P35192)

Prof. Pratik Modi

ACCESS Development Services, New Delhi (in collaboration with Center for Sustainable Livelihoods, IRMA)

Emerging challenges and sustainability of producers’ collectives

Ekansh Gupta (P35028) Prof. Madhavi Mehta


Emerging challenges and sustainability of producers` collectives

Gaurav Chaudhary (P35127)



Emerging challenges and factors leading to success and sustainablility of producers’ collective’ and impact on members’ livelihood

Prashant Kumar Kanaujia (P35165)


ADITHI, Patna Integrated development intervention for Bhandari village

Anand Abhinav (P35014) Prof. Pramod K Singh

Aditya Birla GBTL Jan Kalyan Trust, Bhiwani

Assessing potential for integrated livestock development centres covering 30 villages, 5 centres. Linkage of CSR activities with government programmes

Abhishek Kumar (P35005), Parul Singh (P35062)


Aga Khan Rural Support programme (India) - Sustainable Agriculture, Ahmedabad

Study of integrated conservation agriculture models for sustainability in rain-fed areas of Madhya Pradesh

Chinmoy Hait (P35021) Prof. Shambu Prasad Chebrolu

Agrasar, Gurgaon Adding value to the learning process

Neha Parakh (P35056) Prof. MV Durga Prasad

Agriculture Skill Council of India (ASCI), Gurgaon

Developing appropriate outreach including (IT/Social Media) model

Jyoti Kaswan (P35043) Prof. HK Misra


Developing partnership proposal model for selected northern and eastern states

Aanchal Aggarwal (P35002) Prof. Rakesh Arrawatia




Developing strategic partnership model and proposal for state government of selected southern and western states

Ruchi Chandalia (P35082) Prof. SR Asokan

Arohan Financial Services Private Limited, Kolkata

Customer Engagement Strategy Aranya Sen (P35016), Pradipta Mondal (P35164), Sukanya Dasgupta (P35098)

Prof. Pratik Modi

Bhartiya Samruddhi Investments and Consulting Services Ltd BASIX Ltd) – Holding company of BASIX Social Enterprise Group, Hyderabad

Development of Business Plan for Farmers Producer Organization (FPO), documentation on establishment of business enterprise and critical management support for FPO while launching business enterprise

Rachit Srivastava (P35071), Priti Mala (P35168)

Prof. Shambu Prasad Chebrolu

Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Society, Office of the DCF, Wild Ass Sanctuary, Dhangadhra

Appropriate biodiversity conservation approach in LRK with sustainable livelihood in WAS fringe area

Ajeeta Shreya (p35007) Prof. Indranil De


Suitable and best livelihood options for saltpan workers, fishermen, and grazers with the biodiversity conservation approach

Hitesh Kumar Prasad (P35038)

Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal


Change of land use pattern, ecological and economical value and their implication on human and animal conflict due to Narmada Canal Network in LRK-Wild Ass Sanctury Area

Isha Dash (P35135) Prof. Saswata Biswas

Building and Enabling Disaster Resilience of Coastal Communities (BEDROC), Nagappattinam

Marketing research and analytics for NAMPCO: A milk producing FPO

Kandan Natarajan (P35083) Prof. HS Shylendra

Building and Enabling Disaster Resilience of Coastal Communities (BEDROC), Nagappattinam

Assess and analyse value chain of agriculture and horticulture products and develop a business plan for NAPROC

Lohit Mohan (P35146) Prof. HK Misra

Centre for Microfinance and Livelihoods (CML), Tripura

Value chain analysis of fish sub-sector in Tripura

Nivedita (P35059), Pawan Ghosliya (P35065)

Prof. HS Shylendra

Centre for Microfinance and Livelihoods (CML), Tripura

Designing and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework in multi sector intervention projects in Tripura

Bhadresh Ambalal Prajapati (P35019)

Prof. SR Asokan

Charotar Arogya Mandal (CAM), Karamsad, Gujarat

Need assessment study of community based intervention for three-tiered health delivery model in villages of Anand, Panchmahal, and Kheda districts

Akshay Gupta (P35113), Kumar Nishant (P35144)

Prof. Vivek Pandey

Claro Energy, New Delhi Formulating marketing strategies and financial models for entry in new markets along with assessment of value chain creation for sale of solar water pumps

Akriti Sharma (P35009), Shams Khan (P35089), Shivang Goyal (P35092), Vikramaditya (P35206)

Prof. HK Misra

Consortium for DEWATS Dissimination (CDD) Society, Bangalore

Comparative case study on the impact assessment of wastewater reuse

Gijivisha Khattry (p35030) Prof. Indranil De


Studying efficiency of operation and maintenance services from project perspective

Padmesh P P (P35162) Prof. Paresh Bhatt




Developing tool of indicators measuring customer satisfaction

Vishnu Vijayan (P35106) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - Rural Insurance Services Programme, New Delhi

Capacity building of FPOS for pomegranate value chain through integrated risk management at Sinnar, Nashik

Deepa Paryani (P35023), Diptesh Vikram (P35026)

Prof. Indranil De

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - Rural Insurance Services Programme, New Delhi

Value chain analysis of cashew Anirudh (P35114), Mitali Bargali (P35151)

Prof. Rakesh Arrawatia

Development Support Centre (DSC), Ahmedabad

Preparing 3-year business plan for Man and Jobat Farmer Producer Company to be established in Kukshi and Manavar blocks, Dhar districts, MP

Nitesh Kumar Gupta (P35160)

Prof. Paresh Bhatt


Developing case studies of successful Water User Association and Kishan club of Dharoi, Guhai, Mazum project area

Ravikumar Jaydeepkumar Oza (P35173)



Case study on Sabarmati (Dharoi) irrigation system

Gopi Kumar Verma (FPRM13)



Feasibility study on production and marketing of medicinal crops in Alirajpur, MP

Sundipan Mehta (P35194) Prof. Pratik Modi


Impact assessment of completed Integrated Watershed Management Project in Mhow block of Indore district, MP

Pawan Bhatt (P35064) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Dharani FaM Coop Ltd., Chennekothapalli, Anantpur

Study on institutional credit sources for Dharni Farmers’ Cooperative

Sathish Kumar CAV (P35181)


Dhwani Rural Information Systems, Agra

Building technological capabilities of non-profits

Sahil Jain (P35085), Kaushik Ghosh (P35141)

Prof. Anand Venkatesh

Dilasa Janvikas Pratishthan, Auragabad

Business plans for farmer producer companies

Chithra, (P35022), Hardik Mehta (P35033)

Prof. Girish K Agrawal

Dilasa Janvikas Pratishthan, Auragabad

Process mapping for drip irrigation systems’ outreach program in Marathwada

Swarnim Singh (P35199) Prof. Pramod K Singh

District Collector’s Internship Programme, Kozhikode

Social media based E-governance “Kompassinate Cozhikode”- development, operation and marketing

Arghya Chowdhary (P35017), Himanshu Bhatt (P35133), Surabhi Dahiya (P35196)

Prof. Hari K Nagarajan

District Collector’s Internship Programme, Kozhikode

Concept Note: Implementation of Sampoorna Health Insurance scheme in Kozhikode district

Aashish Vijay Singh (P35108), Shubham Garg (P35187)

Prof. Hari K Nagarajan

Ecozen Solutions, Pune Market study of agricultural commodities and modelling their prices

Manish Ashok Gholap (P35048)

Prof. Durga Prasad MV

Ecozen Solutions, Pune Market study to check feasibility of solar powered drip irrigation

Dhammapal Shyamrao Wakle (P35025)

Prof. Indranil De

Eklavya, Bhopal Market research for Eklavya publication and designing customer feedback mechanism

Aadishesh Bikram Kshetri (P35001)

Prof. Preeti Priya



eKutir Rural Management Services, Bhubaneswar

Marketing plan for Svadha and (Sanitary napkin and portable eye care) suggesting marketing promotional strategies for Svadha mart and Svadhalite

Nitesh Sajwani (P35161) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas


Marketing strategies for Veggie Kart

Rohit Bharti (P35081) Prof. SR Asokan

Ergos Business Solutions, Pusa Feasibility and live demonstration of integrated “Farmer Commodity Exchange” through integrating farmers on SAP based mobile app for upcountry buyers, logistics partners, and other channel partners

Mohammad Irfan Ali (P35052), Rahul Bhatia (P35074), Sandeep Agrawal (P35087), Roshan Singh (P35176)


Gramin Shiksha Kendra, Sawai Madhopur

School plan for academic year 2015-2016

Gaurav Khandelwal (P35029), Puja Paramhansa (P35169)

Prof. Asmita Vyas

Grassroutes in association with RBS Foundation India, Mumbai

Study of value chain of reusing and recycling in Mumbai

Sapna Kaushik (P35178) Prof. Paresh Bhatt

Grassroutes in association with RBS Foundation India, Mumbai

Assessing the entrepreneurship ecosystem of Mumbai local trains

Pallavi Dutta (P35163) Prof. Shambu Prasad Chebrolu

Green Worms, Kozhikode Greenworms business plan: Solid waste management service in Kozhikode

Parag (P35060), Sriram (P35191)


Greenway Grameen Infra, Vadodara

Need assessment and target market identification for improved cook-stove

Parul Yadav (P35063), Abhimanyu Dhankar (P35109), Kanak (P35139), Rajat Anand (P35171)

Prof. Vivek Pandey

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), Anand

Studying distribution model of Yakult (Mumbai)

Shruti Giri (P35186) Prof. MV Durga Prasad


Milk procurement outside Gujarat by member unions as per Amul pattern

Akhil G (P35008), Dheeraj Dhingra (P35124), Vikas Gulia (P35207)



Studying distribution model of Patanjali (Delhi)

Neha Anand (P35055) Prof. Preeti Priya

IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL), New Delhi

Understanding long-term perceived benefits to IKSL subscriber from mobile phone content for improving content quality and customer retention

Sushanta Kumar Das (P35099), Harshita Singh (P35132)


India Natural Resource Economics and Management (INREM) Foundation, Anand

Report on resource centre for safe water in Assam: laying foundation for new centre

Jyotismita Devi (P35138) Prof. Shyam Singh

Industree Craft Foundation, Bangalore

Women of India Harshal Chadha (P35131) Prof. Asmita Vyas

Institute of Livelihood Research and Training - Basix, Hyderabad

Assessment of Farmer Producer Organizations: Analysis of institutional, financial and business development needs leading to formulation of strategy and standard processes

Piyush Singh (P35067), Haritha S K (P35130), Nishchal Jain (P35158)


Institute of Livelihood Research and Training - Basix, Hyderabad

Financing of Farmer Producer Organizations: Analysis of constraints and recommendations for solutions

Aveek Biswas (P35118), Krishna Mohan Gupta (P35142), Mangesh Tikaram Kapgate (P35147)


International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Anand

Mission Kakatiya: Telangana’s attempt to replicate Saurashtra’s success

C Sunil Kumar (P35020), Venkata Sampath Kumar Dora (P35205)

Prof. Asmita Vyas




Assessment of PINS and micro-irrigation on Narmada canal in Rajasthan

Divya Wadhwa (P35126), Prashanth Chelumala (P35166)

Prof. Indranil De


Can solar pump rejuvenate agriculture in Bihar?

Ravi Kiran, (P35080), Nishita Gupta (P35159)


ITC, Agri Business Division, Secunderabad

Value chain analysis for Jamun in identified areas

Saroj Behera (P35179) Prof. MV Durga Prasad


Value addition in coffee business by: a) Conceptualization of value chain to understand various aspects of coffee value chain b) Exploring the prospects of instant coffee exports c) Developing a technical analysis tool for forecasting coffee prices

Rohan Kumar S (P35175), Aveen Gurram (P35032)

Prof. Pratik Modi


Market study of pulses & scope in southern market

Nagesh Boodida (P35054) Prof. SR Asokan

Kamalnayan Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation, Wardha

Impact of Water Resource Development Programme on Sustainable Development in Samudrapur block

Vaibhav Prakash Lohakare (P35204)

Prof. Vivek Pandey

Kanak Resources Management, New Delhi

Viability study and design strategy for implementation of recycling plant in Vadoara

Medha Srivastava (P35049), Ratan Raj Laxmi (P35172), Shefali Vijaywargiya (P35090)

Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Keggfarms, Gurgaon Village poultry landscape in Odisha

Kshetra Mohan Sahu (P35046)

Prof. SR Asokan

KHAMIR Craft Society, Kutch Bhuj

Study of KHAMIR business model: Incentive scheme for artisans and pricing strategy

Mrinalini Bhargava (P35152)

Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

Kolhapur Zilla Sahakari Dugdh Utpadak Sangh, Kolhapur

Formulating strategic plan for increasing milk sales

Kiran Prakash Dhole (P35045), Piyush Darak (P35066)

Prof. Asmita Vyas

Kudumbashree NRO, Thiruvanthapuram

Type-designs for popular enterprise categories in NRO partner-states

Sailesh PR (P35086) Prof. Shambu Prasad Chebrolu

Leh Nutrition Project, Leh-Ladakh Studying the functioning of and assessing the impact of various interventions under farm based livelihood project in Leh

Jayati Vashist (P35039), Manu Vatayan (P35149)

Prof. Mukul Kumar

Light Microfinance, Ahmedabad Standardization of risk management and enhancing efficiency in operations through credit appraisal process and risk mitigation tools

Jenil Jain (P35040), Milan Sanghvi (P35050)


Light Microfinance, Ahmedabad Cash flow analysis for designing suitable loan product/s to meet credit requirements for dairy and micro-enterprise activities

Vikas (P35104), Rishabh Saini (P35174)

Prof. Paresh Bhatt

Light Microfinance, Ahmedabad Standardization of credit bureau process and incorporation of credit bureau data in the credit appraisal process & risk management tools

Sumit Jhanwar (P35193) Prof. Paresh Bhatt



Malabar Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union, Kozhikode

Formation of four women SHGs in microfinance under four co-operative socities in in Kannur District, Kerala

Adarsh Govind (P35006) Prof. Hari K Nagarajan

Manav Sadhna, Ahmedabad Establishing marketing channels for newly developed products from waste water bottles

Krunal Subhash Thakkar (P35143)

Prof. Asmita Vyas

MART, NOIDA Use of social media for marketing and communication in rural areas

Ishaan Sarin (P35136), Vaibhav Chhabra (P35203)

Prof. Pratik Modi

Medha Learning Foundation, Lucknow

Human resource and skill requirement for entry-level positions across employers in Gorakhpur and Raebareli

Mamta Mourya (F1303), Abhishek Gupta (P35110)

Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Mehsana District Cooperative Milk Producers Union, Mehsana

Studying private and other competition in packed milk market in Mehsana milk shed area and deriving countering strategies

Nageswara Rao G (P35153), Utsav Deven Mistry(P35202)

Prof. Madhavi Mehta


Forecasting of milk procurement in Mehsana milk shed area for next 5 years

Hardik Arvind Chaudhary (P35129), Namrita Sharma (P35154)



Consumer preference study: carbonated vs milk based beverages

Himanshu Agarwal (P35036), Subrata Bagchi (P35096)


Mitraniketan, Trivandrum Management of Mitraniketan Bakery

Hari Sankar M (P35034) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

N M Sadguru Water & Development Foundation, Dahod

Seed production activity as livelihood strategy and its impact on tribal regions of western India

Vanya Rai (P35102) Prof. Girish K Agrawal

National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Anand

Cradle-to-farm gate life cycle assessment of milk production of smallholder dairy farms

Gautam Pruthi (P35128), Nipun (P35157)

Prof. Rakesh Saxena


Comparative study of efficient implementation of animal breeding projects under National Dairy Plan - I

Ajay Kumar Ahirwar (P35112), Anish Nair (P35115)

Prof. Shyam Singh

National Skills Foundation of India (NSFI), New Delhi

Business plan for bio-input production and marketing in Baran district of Rajasthan

Manish Verma (P35148) Prof. Rakesh Arrawatia

Navjyoti India Foundation, Gurgaon

Rural tourism in Sohna block, Gurgaon

Alphy Sulaiman (P35010) Prof. HK Misra

Navjyoti India Foundation, Gurgaon

Project Unnati under skills up-gradation program

Nistha Sachan (P35058) Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal

Origo Commodities India, Hyderabad

Promotion of FPO and baseline survey

Minakshi Chhikara (P35051), Prit Hemant Gandhi (P35069), Arpan Datta (P35117)

Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Paayas Milk Producers’ Company, Jaipur (in collaboration with Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods IRMA)

Exploring the possibility and validating using Milk Pooling Points (MPPs) as a point of sale for value added products

Jitendra Pal (P35042), Yashasvita Rathore (P35107)

Prof. Madhavi Mehta

People in Centre Consulting Ahmedabad

How rurban India manages water and wastewater

Avadhut Rajaram Karande (P35018), Vandana Ravindra (P35101)

Prof. Indranil De



Phoenix Research and Consulting Solutions, Hyderabad

Building generic project monitoring & evaluation system for non-profits

Shaikmohammed Naseer Hussain (P35182)

Prof. HK Misra

Pidilite Industries Limited – CSR, Mahuva, Gujarat

Development of MIS framework for skill initiative and Trivenikalyan Foundation’s work

Ketan Manek (P35044) Prof. HK Misra


Studying concept of fully skilled and digital village; implementation methodology at Kalsar

Ankita Khare (P35015), Sarthak Shah (P35180)



Microfinance in Kalsar and potential for income-generating activity in SHGs

Nishi Shah (P35057) Prof. Shyam Singh

Piramal Sarvajal, Ahmedabad Studying operations and impact of drinking water solutions in rural India (Barmer) in CSR set-up and finding ways of expanding reach

Bharat Parmar (P35119) Prof. Asmita Vyas

Piramal Sarvajal, Ahmedabad Studying operations and impact of town level drinking water solutions in rural India and finding ways of expanding reach

Raj Agrawal (P35076) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), New Delhi

Study on acceptance and usability of government scheme MGNREGS in community rural life

Raghav Bansal (P35073) Prof. H S Shylendra

Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), New Delhi

Developing different livelihood approaches for landless and marginal families with special focus on women

Sourav Anand (P35189) Prof. Pramod K Singh

Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC), Bhubaneswar

Community Forest Research (CFR) management and community rights’ assertion for enhanced livelihoods of tribals in Mayurbhanj, Kalahandi and Balangir districts of Odisha

Rahul Singh (P35170) Prof. HS Shylendra

Rongmei Naga Bapstist Association (RNBA), Manipur

Value chain analysis and business Plan for banana, hill-broom and fermented bamboo shoots in Manipur

Tarak Nath Das (P35100), Deepika Yadav (P35121)

Prof. HS Shylendra

S M Sehgal Foundation, Gurgaon Impact assessement of rainwater harvesting intervention in selected villages of Mewat, Haryana

Sonal Diwan (P35093)

Prof. Shyam Singh

Samunnati Financial Intermediation & Services, Chennai

Identifying FPOs in Gujarat engaged in agri/dairy and allied activities

Nikhil Dhanda (P35155) Prof. Saswata Biswas

Sanghamithra Rural Financial Services, Bangalore

Sustainability of Sanghamithra operations in Madhya Pradesh

Rachit Tiwari (P35072), Rakesh Keshari


Sanket, Bhopal Understanding local agriculture and agri produce market environment; preparing plan for FPOs producing and selling vegetables and horticulture produce in and around Bhopal

Sourodip Ghosh (P35095), Shrinkhala Singh (P35185), Srayansi Worah (P35190)

Prof. Mukul Kumar

Sanket, Bhopal Understanding local agriculture environment and agri-produce market and preparing plan for FPOs for horticulture for a group of villages in Betul and Bhopal districts

Paridhi Chanchani (P35061), Varsha Dhakar (P35103), Surabhi (P35195)

Prof. SR Asokan



SATHI (Society for Assistance to Children in Difficult Situation), Bangalore

Comparative Study of Integrated Child Protection Scheme in Karnataka and Maharashtra

Harsh Thakur (P35035) Prof. Mukul Kumar

Seva Mandir, Udaipur Conducting impact assessment of the Youth Resource Centre and futuristic study to determine the aspirations of youth and their vision of development

Sourabh Rai (P35094) Prof. Pratik Modi

Sewa Gram Mahila Haat, Ahmedabad

Assessement of Rudi operations in Anand and Mehsana

Ishita Tarun Sharma (P35137)

Prof. Preeti Priya

Sewa Gram Mahila Haat, Ahmedabad

Assessment of RUDI Operations in Sabarkantha & Surendranagar

Shvetal Praveen Bhasin (P35188)

Prof. Preeti Priya

Sickle Innovations, Ahmedabad User and market study for milking machine

Anuj Verma (P35116) Prof. Preeti Priya

Siddhivinayak Agri Processing, Pune

Leading market introduction of french fries in Pune market and preparing road plan for cornering over 20 per cent of market share in Pune, Lonavala, and Mumbai markets

Abhinav Soni (P35004), Deshna Goyal (P35024), Suhag Parikh (P35097), Shreshtha Kukreja (P35184)

Prof. SR Asokan

Simpa Energy, NOIDA Employee satisfaction survey and training need assessment

Teja Chintala (P35200) Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Simpa Energy, NOIDA Understanding rural households’ energy needs via segment for the Simpa used Solar Home systems

Saborni Poddar (P35084), Vivek Pillai (P35210)

Prof. Preeti Priya

Simpa Energy, NOIDA Strengthening company’s customer value proposition

Abhishek Singhal (P35111) Prof. Preeti Priya

SkyQuest Technology Consulting, Ahmedabad

Identifying solutions to mitigate open defecation in Ahmedabad District

Swapnil Patange (P35198) Prof. Pramod K Singh

Somaiya Kala Vidya, Kutch Creating a business plan for organization’s financial stability

Priyanka Mishra (P35070) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Sroat, Pune Strategic planning and devising marketing plan for setting up Sroat pre-school and learning centre

Edwick Pius Bilung (P35027), Pratiyush Jena (P35068)


Sutra Consulting, Bhubaneswar Conceptualizing and preparing online marketing strategy for handicrafts prepared by local community/artisans/SHGs/rural community across India

Shikha Pamnani (P35091), Chiranjeev Sharma (P35120)


The Crafts Council of India, Chennai

Weavers of Veeravanallur – Tamil Nadu

Dharnendran Govindaraj (P35123)


The International Maize Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), Bhubaneshwar

Spread of small engines and markets in services in rural and agricultural mechanization in Odisha: History and policy

Ranju Tulsi Purty (P35079), Sharath V S (P35183)


Panchmahal District Cooperative Producers’ Union, Godhara

Developing marketing strategy for Panchamrut cattle feed in Maharashtra

Govind Singh Dhami (P35031)

Prof. MV Durga Prasad

Vision Spring, New Delhi Evaluating partnership prospects of CSR departments and putting them into practice (strategy/business development)

Nikita Tyagi (P35156) Prof. Asmita Vyas

Vision Spring, New Delhi Devising and implementing business to consumer marketing strategy

Amal John (P35011) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas



Vision Spring, New Delhi Devising and implementing business to business (B2B) marketing strategy

Vikramaditya Singh (P35208)


Vision Spring, New Delhi Evaluating prospect of partnership with NGO’s/ Social Organizations and putting them into practice (strategy/business development)

Kanika (P35140) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

Vision Spring, New Delhi Devising and executing vision-screening outreach strategy in low-income areas in Delhi, NCR, and other states and preparing SOP document for AIIMS’ vision Delhi project

Rahul Verma (P35075) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

Vrutti Livelihood Resource Centre, Bangalore

Business plan for online portal for small and medium scale producer companies in India

Deepthi Ravindran (P35122)

Prof. Paresh Bhatt

Vrutti Livelihood Resource Centre, Bangalore

Preparing business plan for dairy enterprise setup by FPO in Bankehdi block of Hoshangabad district

Hitesh Yadav (P35037) Prof. Shyam Singh

Table 5: Management Traineeship Segment: PRM 2014-16

Organization Project Title Participants’ name & roll no. Faculty Guide

(Bigbasket.com) Supermarket Grocery Supplies, Bangalore

Studying supply chain of F&V from DC to the customer with specific emphasis on quality

Nishita Gupta (P35159) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt


Creating sustainable model of organic F&V sourcing

Vinayak Rajeev (P35105); Chinmoy Hait (P35021); Hardik Mehta (P35033); Udit Goel (P35201)

Prof. Mukul Kumar


Enhancing front end customer experience of Fruits &vegetables at Bigbasket.com

Sapna Kaushik (P35178) Prof. Saswata Biswas

Adani Wilmar (Agri Business Division) Ahmedabad

Conceptualization and implementation of marketing strategy and communication mix for a new FMCG product launch

Himanshu Bhatt (P35133) Prof. SR Asokan


Maize Viability Study: Analysis of Market Opportunities

Ajay Kumar Ahirwar (P35112) Prof. SR Asokan


Business Option at Mantralayam (Techno-commercial feasibility analysis)

Abhilash Govindu (P35003); Shaikmohammed Naseer Hussain (P35182)

Prof. Mukul Kumar


Viability study of food processing plant Diptesh Vikram (P35026); Himanshu Agarwal (P35036)

Prof. Mukul Kumar

Agri Business Product Management - YES Bank Mumbai

Supply chain analysis of F & A Corporate with specific focus on procurement models encompassing Corporate-FPO synergy

Suhag Manilal Parikh (P35097); Govind Singh Dhami (P35031)


Arohan Financial Services Private Limited Kolkata

1) Implementing Arohan CSR initiative 2) Redefining prospecting procedure for Pragati (Arohan’s ) and devising strategy for increasing graduate customer base

Priyanka Mishra (P35070); Subrata Bagchi (P35096)

Prof. HS Shylendra

Arohan Financial Services Private Limited Kolkata

Institutionalizing social performance management and poverty measurement indicator

Saborni Poddar (P35084); Rachit Tiwari (P35072)

Prof. Indranil De



ASA International India Microfinance, Kolkata

Designing Next Generation Microfinance Instrument

Ajeeta Shreya (P35007); Minakshi Chhikara (P35051); Pawan Bhatt (P35064)


Avani Pithoragarh Developing livelihood opportunities through traditional craft

Sourabh Rai (P35094) Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal

Banaskantha District Co-operative Milk Producers Union, Palanpur

Estimating the market potential of packed milk and fresh milk products; designing an effective distribution strategy

Hitesh Yadav (P35037); Vikas (P35104)

Prof. SR Asokan

Banaskantha District Co-operative Milk Producers Union, Palanpur

Studying feasibility and market potential of different cattle feed variants

Ravikumar Jaydeepkumar Oza (P35173)

Prof. Vivek Pandey

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS) Patna

Scoping and strengthening of producer company “Aranyak” by designing viable business plans and value chain assessment

Mohammad Irfan Ali (P35052) Prof. Shambu Prasad Chebrolu

Catalyst Management Services, Bangalore

Developing decision support systems for community institutions

Kumar Nishant (P35144) Prof. HK Misra


Conducting a market analysis for CMS (competition clients perception etc) for its development consultancy business

Deepa Paryani (P35023); Manish Verma (P35148)

Prof. Hitesh Bhatt


Preparing data base of secondary data for key development indicators (national, state, and district levels) and presenting a comparative analysis of the indicators

Isha Dash (P35135) Prof. Rakesh Saxena

Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), Ahmedabad

identifying market opportunities in cold chain sector

Shams Khan (P35089) Prof. SR Asokan

Claro Energy, New Delhi Solar water pumping irrigation as a service – community mobilization, operations strategy and implementation

Ekansh Gupta (P35028) Prof. Indranil De

Claro Energy, New Delhi Complete marketing plan for selling solar water pumps

Haritha S K (P35130); Sarthak Harshadrai Shah (P35180)

Prof. SR Asokan

Claro Energy, New Delhi Data analytics and process design for Customer Service Experience Cell

Sukriti Mehta (P35192) Prof. Saswata Biswas

Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell , Ahmedabad

Creating measurement and evaluation tool to assess sustainability of rural water supply system and analyzing gaps in rural sanitation supply chain

Edwick Pius Bilung (P35027) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell , Ahmedabad

Feasibility study on value chain of onion crops grown in Mahuva clusters of Bhavnagar district of Gujarat

Saroj Kumar Behera (P35179) Prof. Anand Venkatesh

Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell Ahmedabad

Feasibility study for market assessment of M-krishi; M-krishi rollout and its data management with one producer company and development of business plan

Kaushik Ghosh (P35141) Prof. Saswata Biswas

Coconut Development Board Kochi

Study on production and export of coconut oil and virgin coconut oil in India and abroad

Anuj Verma (P35116) Prof. Anand Venkatesh


Developing strategy to explore international market for coconut products (EU countries/GCC/Latin America/Asia Pacific countries)

Sumit Jhanwar (P35193) Prof. Anand Venkatesh


Study on management system of pre-selected coconut producer companies in Kerala and Tamil Nadu

Sharath VS (P35183) Prof. Madhavi Mehta


Development of marketing strategy for Neera and value added products

Vikramaditya Singh (P35208) Prof. Pratik Modi




Export potential of Indian desiccated coconut powder

Krishna Mohan Gupta (P35142) Prof. Rakesh Saxena

Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society Bengaluru

Market landscape assessment study for wastewater treatment technologies to create market strategy for DEWATS

Anirudh (P35114) Prof. Mukul Kumar


Preparing financial model for sustainable operation of faecal sludge treatment plant at Devanahalli

Akshay Gupta (P35113) Prof. Paresh Bhatt


Studying key industry drivers and suggesting two comprehensive, flexible and generic business models for Septage Transport

Ankita Khare (P35015) Prof. Paresh Bhatt


Road map preparation for service providers’ association along with Bye laws

Prit Hemant Gandhi (P35069) Prof. Saswata Biswas

Cosmo Foundation - CSR Division of Cosmo Films Village: Navi Jithardi Gujarat

Assessing social impact of Cosmo Foundation educational programs on local institutions viz. family schools Gram Panchayat etc and measuring qualitative outcomes of Cosmo Foundation programs

Parul Singh (P35062) Prof. Shyam Singh

Dharma Life/ Gajam India Private Limited New Delhi

Business plan to drive supply chain excellence on cloud platform

Pradipta Mondal (P35164) Prof. MV Durga Prasad


Business plan to develop skill rich Indian village

Nivedita (P35059) Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal


Feasibility analysis for smart villages in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand

Chithra Nair (P35022); Gijivisha Khattry (P35030)



Developing a business plan and strategy to drive profitability in institutional partnerships of Dharma Life

Milan Yatinkumar Sanghvi (P35050)


Dilasa Janvikas Pratisthan Aurangabad

Designing actionable and economically viable business plans for farmer producer companies

Rakesh Keshri (P35077); Chiranjeev Sharma (P35120)


Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of India New Delhi

Need assessment of technological intervention for rural development in Kananjo and Giridih Villages of Jharkhand

Puja Paramhansa (P35169) Prof. Shyam Singh

Ekgaon technologies private limited New Delhi

On boarding Farmer Producers Organizations on Ekgaon SHOP platform for market access

Sushanta Kumar Das (P35099); Mangesh Tikaram Kapgate (P35147)



Value chain and market analysis for VeggiLite enterprise

Sourav Anand (P35189) Prof. HK Misra


Feasibility study for selecting right technology, marketing, distribution and maintenance of waste management system in rural and urban Odisha

Varsha Dhakar (P35103) Prof. Rakesh Saxena


Value chain of housing for BOP segment Vaibhav Chhabra (P35203) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas


Drawing marketing plan for selling clean drinking water and water ATMS

Krunal Subhash Thakkar (P35143)



Identifying and collaborating with input suppliers and service providers to establish robust supply chain around agripreneurs

Nikita Tyagi (P35156) Prof. Vivek Pandey

ESAF Microfinance & Investment (P) Ltd. Thrissur

Identifying value chain and formulating business and marketing plan for Vegetable Intervention FPO project of ESAF

Vishnu Deth G (P35209) Prof. HK Misra



ESAF Microfinance & Investment (P) Ltd. Thrissur

Value chain impact assessment of mango value chain: A case study of NABARD-ESAF FPO project at Muthalamada Kerala

Sailesh P R (P35086) Prof. Rakesh Saxena

Friends of Women`s World Banking India, Ahmedabad

Developing training module on women entrepreneurship development with focus on capacity building for livelihood enhancement and wealth management leading to female empowerment

Surabhi (P35195) Prof. Madhavi Mehta

Godrej Agrovet Limited Mumbai

Assessing current productivity of animal feed sales force and proposing suitable strategy for optimization purposes

Sundipan Mehta (P35194) Prof. Paresh Bhatt

Godrej Agrovet Limited Mumbai

Optimization of farm-to-plant supply chain management

Kshetra Mohan Sahu (P35046) Prof. SR Asokan

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing (GCMMF) Anand

Feasibility study for split coverage of AMUL products

Aveek Biswas (P35118) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt


Developing online module and android application for calculating and tracking cost of milk production

Manu Vatayan (P35149); Sahil Jain (P35085)

Prof. HS Shylendra


Devising optimum second leg freight module Neha Anand (P35055) Prof. HS Shylendra

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing (GCMMF), Anand

Assessing financial viability of Amul scooping parlours in Mumbai and devising marketing strategies for their improvement

Ishita Tarun Sharma (P35137); Nitesh Kumar Gupta (P35160)

Prof. Indranil De


Developing standard operating manual and suggesting marketing activities for Amul parlours

Mrinalini Bhargava (P35152); Shvetal Praveen Bhasin (P35188)

Prof. Pratik Modi


How to increase processed cheese consumption in Indore and Kanpur

Aranya Sen (P35016); Nistha Sachan (P35058)

Prof. Pratik Modi


Market estimation and rapid penetration strategy for shredded cheese in HoReCa segment

Kiran Prakash Dhole (P35045); Divya Wadhwa (P35126)

Prof. Pratik Modi


Development of score card for sales team based on secondary sales

Deshna Goyal (P35024); Arghya Chowdhury (P35017)

Prof. Preeti Priya


Comparative evaluation of Amulya vs Everyday in terms of functionality and perception from customer’s perspective in Kerala and Assam markets

Adarsh Govind (P35006); Amal John (P35011)

Prof. Preeti Priya


Impact assessment of tea- special launch in Dimapur; market and feasibility study for launch of the product in nearby hilly markets.

Akhil G (P35008); Anish Nair (P35115)

Prof. Rakesh Saxena


Gauging the market position of Amul ice cream in Hubli City

Padmesh P P (P35162) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas


Brand preference evaluation and re-launch strategy for cooking butter in Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad

Sriram (P35191); Deepthi Ravindran (P35122)



Reach and impact of Amul advertisements in Vizag and Vijaywada

Venkata Sampath Kumar Dora (P35205)



Studying the impact of increased liquid milk availability on milk powder consumption in Odisha

Vanya Rai (P35102) Prof. Vivek Pandey



HDFC Bank - Agri Mumbai Developing credit risk score model for agri-loan portfolio and providing comprehensive industry report on portfolio

Rachit Srivastava (P35071) Prof. Indranil De

Husk Power Systems, Bihar Market analysis and business development strategy of solar home system

Pawan Ghosliya (P35065) Prof. Preeti Priya

iData Solutions Hyderabad Creating distributor linkages for mobile-based water ordering application

Prashanth Krishnamurthy Chelumala (P35166)


IDMC Corporate Office, Anand

Architecture of customer service centre Ruchi Chandalia (P35082) Prof. Pratik Modi

IFFCO Kisan Sanchar, New Delhi

Understanding long-term perceived benefits to IKSL subscribers from content provided on mobile phone for improving content quality and customer retention

Abhimanyu Dhankar (P35109); SurbhiDahiya (P35196)

Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

IL&FS Social Inclusion Group, Gurgaon

Ghazipur Gulmohur Livelihood Project Parul Yadav (P35063) Prof. Shyam Singh

IntelleGrow Mumbai Identifying and streamlining information flow of processes and design ing MIS framework for venture debt firm

Shikha Pamnani (P35091) Prof. Anand Venkatesh

IntelleGrow Mumbai Mapping various business processes and preparing standard operating procedure manuals as per SOX compliance for venture debt firm

Gurram Aveen (P35032); Shruti Giri (P35186)


IntelleGrow Mumbai Developing impact measurement matrix and Environmental, Social and Governance Risk Management System (ESMS) for venture debt firm

Rishabh Saini (P35174) Prof. Shyam Singh

ITC ABD, Secunderabad Designing OTIF evaluation model for export business of ITC’s agri business division

Shrestha Kukreja (P35184) Prof. Girish Kumar Agrawal

ITC ABD, Secunderabad Value chain analysis for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) ingredients in the bio-actives segment

Pratiyush Jena (P35068) Prof. Girish Kumar Agrawal

ITC ABD, Secunderabad Leveraging internal synergies for improving performance of fuel stations

Arpan Datta (P35117) Prof. Girish Kumar Agrawal

ITC ABD, Secunderabad Strategic marketing for improving performance of fuel stations

Harsh Thakur (P35035) Prof. Girish Kumar Agrawal

ITC ABD, Secunderabad Study of feed industry in south India and Maharashtra for raw material (input) demand and seasonal trends

Vivek Sasidharan Pillai (P35210) Prof. Girish Kumar Agrawal

Jhajjar Power Limited Khanpur Khurd

Impact assessment of CSR initiative and way forward

Anand Abhinav (P35014) Prof. Shyam Singh

Kancor Ingredients, Kochi Market analysis of CO2 extracted products and data analysis of non alcoholic beverages for combined north Indian and south Indian states

Shrinkhala Singh (P35185) Prof. Preeti Priya

Kolhapur Zilla Sahkari Dugdh Utpadak Sangh, Kolhapur

Milk and milk products - channel partners` market survey

Hitesh Kumar Prasad (P35038); Manish Ashok Gholap (P35048); Disha Meshram (P35125); Bhadresh Ambalal Prajapati (P35019); Dhammapal Shyamrao Wakle (P35025); Namrita Sharma (P35154)


Krishi Star Mumbai Identifying optimum collection centre network model for assuring quality and consistent procurement

Nipun (P35157) Prof. Asmita Vyas



Light Microfinance Ahmedabad

Reviewing and designing audit framework for risk management in head office and branches

Raj Agrawal (P35076) Prof. Asmita Vyas


Defining roles and responsibilities for optimal resource allocation and evaluation of sales force involved in operations and designing training module

Pallavi Dutta (P35163) Prof. Madhavi Mehta


Developing framework for product of high ticket loan using cash flow analysis and establishing market strategy

Sandeep Agrawal (P35087); Vikas Gulia (P35207)



Improving portfolio quality through streamlining processes and implementing new incentive structure to incorporate quality parameters

Nishi Sameer Shah (P35057) Prof. Rakesh Arrawatia


Data modelling and integration of credit bureau report

Abhinav Soni (P35004) Prof. Rakesh Arrawatia

Magma Fincorp, Kolkata Designing product and process to fund housing needs of customers based in rural India, based on their cash flows and type of collateral offered

Harshita Singh (P35132) Prof. Indranil De

Magma Fincorp Ltd Kolkata

Designing suitable product for tractor dealers to increase company’s business opportunity and strengthen relationship with dealer

Yashasvita Rathore (P35107) Prof. Pramod K Singh

Mahila Abhivruddhi Society, Hyderabad

Value chain analysis of mangoes and pulses CAV Sathish Kumar (P35181); Srayansi Worah (P35190)


Mahindra & Mahindra-Agri Business Division Mumbai

Evolving international business strategy for the agribusiness division

Sonal Diwan (P35093) Prof. Girish Kumar Agrawal


Studying distribution value chain market regarding potato flakes’ viability and other innovations in potato-based products

Rohan S. Kumar (P35175) Prof. Madhavi Mehta


Studying current logistics model and suggesting improvements

Rajat Anand (P35171) Prof. Rakesh Saxena

Margdarshak Financial Services, Lucknow

Linking internal controls’ framework with incentives and compensation for business development and operations’ team

Priti Mala (P35168); Abhishek Gupta (P35110)

Prof. Paresh Bhatt

Margdarshak Financial Services, Lucknow

Streamlining Business Correspondent (BC) operations of microfinance institution for Yes Bank and IDBI Bank

Paridhi Chanchani (P35061); Neha Parakh (P35056), Piyush Singh (P35067); Sourodip Ghosh (P35095)


MITRA Agro Equipments Pvt. Ltd. Nashik

identifying potential market and devising sales and marketing strategy for tractor driven automatic sprayer in new market

Avadhut Rajaram Karande (P35018); Jenil Shanker Jain (P35040); Ravi Kiran (P35080); Nageswara Rao G (P35153); Vishnu Vijayan (P35106)


MITRA Agro Equipments Pvt. Ltd. Nashik

Technical and market evaluation of new design potato harvester for Indian markets

Vandana Ravindra (P35101) Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal

Mother Dairy (GCMMF) Gandhinagar

Optimisation of inventory in AMULFED Dairy

M. Hari Sankar (P35034); Hardik Arvind Chaudhary (P35129)



Proposing strategies to increase milk sales through brand building and revamping distribution channel in Ranchi and Jamshedpur

Ratan Raj Laxmi (P35172); Jayati Vashist (P35039); Ranju Tulsi Purty (P35079)

Prof. HS Shylendra


Devising and implementing an engagement system for company’s young managers

Dharnendran Govindaraj (P35123)

Prof. Madhavi Mehta




Impact assessment study of training programmes for achieving sustainable/viable business proposition by capacity building of stakeholders

Tarak Nath Das (P35100) Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal


Perception mapping of institution building interventions in a milk union adopted by management committee members on making viable cooperative business and DCS sustainable

Kanika (P35140) Prof. Paresh Bhatt


Sustainable business processes adopted by village level dairy cooperative societies to make viable cooperative dairy business: by inclusion of women

Utsav Deven Mistry (P35202) Prof. Shambu Prasad Chebrolu

Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation, Ranikhet

Value chain analysis of walnut cultivation in Indian Himalayan Region

Bharat Parmar (P35119); Aadishesh Bikram Kshetri (P35001)


People in Centre, Ahmedabad

Analyzing interrelations between livelihood and water resource development, management and its end use to Dangs tribes

Rahul Singh (P35170) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Pidilite - Rurban Mumbai Analyzing and suggesting changes to the Pidilite ki Duniya programme for developing new channel for success

Gaurav Chaudhary (P35127) Prof. Asmita Vyas

Pidilite - Rurban Mumbai Exploring the feasibility of Pidilite’s construction chemicals in prefabricated cement mini-industries; developing and implementing market development module for tapping its potential

Shivang Goyal (P35092) Prof. Pratik Modi

Pidilite - Rurban Mumbai Studying competition to formulate and implement marketing strategy against it in upcoming market

Dheeraj Dhingra (P35124) Prof. Preeti Priya

Piramal Water, Ahmedabad Assessing impact and customer satisfaction in implemented and functional corporate partnered (CSR) projects

Sukanya Dasgupta (P35098) Prof. Asmita Vyas

Piramal Water, Ahmedabad Exploring partnership possibilities with dairy cooperatives

Jitendra Pal (P35042) Prof. SR Asokan

PricewaterhouseCoopers Gurgaon - Government Reforms & Infrastructure Development (GRID)

Mega Food Parks scheme – Issues and challenges

Nagesh Boodida (P35054) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

PricewaterhouseCoopers Gurgaon - Government Reforms & Infrastructure Development (GRID)

Review and critical assessment of structure, authority, and responsibility of committees or governing bodies of agencies associated with operations of SGR in Malawi

Mitali Bargali (P35151) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

Rural Centre for Human Interest (RUCHI) Solan

Annual Baseline Study for Baddi Township Integrated Water, Health, and Agriculture Project

Parag Kulshreshtha (P35060) Prof. Hitesh Bhatt

S M Sehgal Foundation Gurgaon

Profiling of Madhya Pradesh for expansion purposes

Gaurav Khandelwal (P35029) Prof. Anand Venkatesh

S M Sehgal Foundation Gurgaon

Situation analysis of targeted public distribution system and impact assessment of village leadership programme in three pre-selected villages of Mewat, Haryana

Shubham Garg (P35187); Manzoor Mazherkhan Kanuga (P35150)

Prof. Indranil De

Safe Harvest, Bengaluru Studying present business operations and suggesting business models for optimizing and improving their operational efficiency and processes

Lohit Mohan (P35146); Nishchal Jain (P35158)

Prof. Paresh Bhatt



Sambodhi Research & Communications, NOIDA

Big Data Analytics products for development sector

Abhishek Kumar (P35005) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Sambodhi Research & Communications, NOIDA

Measuring community level resilience development and equity relevant to micro-grid solar projects for evaluation of Smart Power for Rural Development (SPRD) project

Raghav Bansal (P35073) Prof. Vivek Pandey

Samunnati Financial Intermediation & Services, Chennai

Performance measuring dashboards for Samunnati

Swapnil Gunwant Patange (P35198)

Prof. HK Misra

SBI General Insurance - Rural Business, Mumbai

Alternate distribution models for rural insurance products leveraging technology relevant to constraints

Rahul Bhatia (P35074) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

Shaishavi Project Consultants, Bhopal

Documenting best practices of dairy management in India at present exploring feasibility of running a dairy of 50000 litres per day in Jalgaon, Maharashtra

Roshan Singh (P35176) Prof. Paresh Bhatt

Siddhi Vinayak Agri Processing, Pune

Identifying segments for marketing and sales of chilled french fries in Pune and market research to guide expansion in nearby metro cities.

Nitesh Rajkumar Sajwani (P35161); Akriti Sharma (P35009); Rohit Bharti (P35081)


Siddhi Vinayak Agri Processing, Pune

Developing strategic plan with special emphasis on supply chain network for procurement of Chip Grade Potato (CGP) in Punjab region and its operationalization

Vikramaditya (P35206) Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas

Spandana Sphoorty Financial, Hyderabad

Strategic proposal preparation for skill development training

Harshal Chadha (P35131) Prof. Nivedita Kothiyal

SV Credit Line, Gurgaon Conducting sector analysis for small business loan and vehicle finance and development of business plan

Ishaan Sarin (P35136); Medha Srivastava (P35049)

Prof. Asmita Vyas

Svatantra Microfinance, Mumbai

Feasibility analysis of dairy loan product for Svatantra

Ketan Manek (P35044) Prof. Paresh Bhatt

Swasti Health Resource Centre, Bangalore

Developing analytical framework to assess efficiency of the systems for delivering services at community organisation level using monitoring data under Avahan India Programme

Aanchal Aggarwal (P35002) Prof. HS Shylendra


Market study for i-calQ Abhishek Singhal (P35111); Shefali Vijaywargiya (P35090)

Prof. Preeti Priya


Programme evaluation of Avahan India AIDS Initiative Phase-3 using Baseline Data across five high prevalence states

Kanak (P35139) Prof. Vivek Pandey

TechnoServe India, Mumbai To conduct market assessment study for Guar Value Chain in Bikaner district of Rajasthan

Prashant Kumar Kanaujia (P35165); Piyush Darak (P35066)


TechnoServe India, Mumbai Mid-term evaluation of project interventions for cohorts of 1125 farmers registered under the Barmer Unnati project

Jyoti Kaswan (P35043); Deepika Yadav (P35121); Nikhil Dhanda (P35155); Vaibhav Prakash Lohakare (P35204)


The American India Foundation (AIF), New Delhi

Monitoring and evaluating project enablers implemented by AIF

Aashish Vijay Singh (P35108) Prof. Shyam Singh

Punjab State Co-op Supply & Marketing Federation Ltd (MARKFED), Chandigarh

Strengthening of Rural Marketing Infrastructure and Supply Chain Management.

Jyotismita Devi (P35138); Gautam Pruthi (P35128)




Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited Chennai

Develop a marketing plan for increasing Aavin Paneer sales in Chennai metro and suburbs

Ashwin Skaria Abrahim (P34015)

Prof. HS Shylendra

Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation Limited Chennai

Study of ice cream market in Chennai metro and suburbs; developing marketing plan to increase Aavin ice cream sales

Alphy Sulaiman (P35010); S Kandan Natarajan (P35083)


Trust Community Livelihoods, Lucknow

Value chain analysis of bamboo cultivation in district Bahraich (UP)

Swarnim Singh (P35199) Prof. HK Misra

Trust Community Livelihoods, Lucknow

Value chain analysis of banana cultivation in district Bahraich (UP)

Rahul Verma (P35075) Prof. H K Misra

Table 6: Placement details (PRM 35)

Batch Summary

Number of participants in the graduating batch 198

Number of PRM-35 participants who opted out of placement: 4

Number of participants who were sponsored by current employer 1

Number of PRM-35 participants who accepted pre-placement job offers: 13

Number of participants participated in campus placement 180

Total Number of participants placed 193

Compensation Summary (CTC Per Annum) (in INR)

Min 300000

Mean 856104

Median 840000

Max 2739000

Organization/Jobs Summary

Number of organizations that announced Jobs 101

Number of Vacancies announced 358

Number of organizations that participated in process 70

Number of organizations that selected participants 60

Number of organizations that participated for the first time 20

Sector-wise list of recruiters and number of participants selected by them

Agribusiness & Rural Marketing & CSR

Rural - Customer Development - Colgate-Palmolive 1

Pidilite Industries Limited 6

Barrix Agro Sciences Pvt. Ltd. 2

Godrej Agrovet 4

Mahindra & Mahindra, Agri Buisness 1

Supermarket Grocery Supplies Pvt Ltd (bigbasket) 6

Kancor Ingredients Ltd. 1

ITC Limited Agri Business Division 2

OmniActive 2

Agrifinance & Microfinance

Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth Ahemdabad 1

Arohan Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. Kolkata 2

ESAF Microfinance & Investments (Pvt) Ltd 2


Fincare Business Services Pvt Ltd 3

Fullerton India Credit Co. Ltd. 2

Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd. 2

HDFC Bank Limited (Agri Credit Group) 11

ICICI Bank-Rural and Micro Banking Group 4

ICICI Lombard-(Rural Life Insurance Sector) 10

IFMR Rural Finance 2

IndusInd Bank Limited - Agri & SME Division 4

Light Microfinance Pvt. Ltd. 3

M/s. NABARD Financial Services Limited 4

Samunnati Financial Intermediation & Services Pvt. 1

Satin Creditcare Network Limited 5

SVCL 1

Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd. 2

Yes Bank-(Agri Rural and Social Banking (ARSB)) 2

Government Development Agencies

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society 4

MP State Rural Livelihood Mission 3

Rajasthan Grameen Ajeevika Vikas Parishad 3

Society for Elimination for Rural Poverty 3

Non- Government Development Organization

Aga Khan Rural Support Programme 4

Arghyam 2

Centre for Micro Finance 2

Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society 1

Foundation for Ecological Security 1

Gramin Shiksha Kendra 2

PRADAN New Delhi 1

Seva Mandir 1

Producer Collectives & Associated Organizations

GCMMF Ltd (AMUL) 16

IDMC Ltd. VU Nagar 1

Kolhapur Zilla Sahakari Dugh Utpadak Sangh Ltd. 9

Maahi Milk Producer Company Limited 6

Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable (P) Ltd. 2

National Dairy Development Board 4

The Punjab State Coop. Milk Producers Federation 5

The Timbaktu Collective 1

Social Enterprise

Centre for Incubation and Entprenereship 1

Connect India 6

Dharma Life Gajam India Pvt. Ltd. 3

FFT Himalayan Fresh Produce Pvt Ltd 2

GoCoop Social Marketplace 1


Technology & Consultancy

Micro-Credit Ratings International Limited 2

Microsave 5

NABARD Consultancy Services 3

National Payment Corporation of India 9

PwC-(Government Reforms & Infrastructure Development) 1

Sambodhi Research & Communications Pvt Ltd 1

Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt Ltd 1

Stellapps Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 1

Table 7: Management Development Programmes

On-Campus MDPs (April 2015 – March 2016)MDP title Coordinators Dates Category

Improving Organizational Social Performance in CSR Domain - IRMA-IICA New Delhi Joint Certification Programme

Girish Agrawal April 13-17 Open

Design Thinking for Social Innovation Vanita Yadav April 20-22 Open

INNOVATION - A Strategic Imperative to Business Girish Agrawal & AB Raju May 4-5 Open

Operational Excellence and Lean Simplified for Survival and Growth

Girish Agrawal & AB Raju May 18-19 Open

IRMA Impact Evaluation Summer School 2015 (Training Programme to Build Research Capacity in Impact Evaluationx

Vivek Pandey May 18-23 Open

Materials Management and Inventory Control Monark Bag May 25-27, 2015 Open

Saswata Narayan Biswas June 9-12, 2015 Open

PERT/CPM Techniques Girish Agrawal June 18-19. 2015 Open

Financial Decisions (Strengthening Tools) Paresh J Bhatt ,Asmita H. Vyas& Rakesh Ramesh Arrawatia

June 23-26, 2015 Open

Leadership Development Programme with a Global Touch Girish Agrawal and Anish Baheti

June 26-27, 2015 Open

Transformational Leadership and Managing Change Vijay Menon July 16-17, 2015 Open

The Power of Emotional Intelligence in Action: Development and Application

Asmita H. Vyas July 30-Aug 1, 2015 Open

Contemporary Developments in the Field of Finance and Accounting for the Block Accounts Managers of National Health Mission, Odisha

Paresh J Bhatt ,Asmita H. Vyas & Rakesh Ramesh Arrawatia

Aug 4-6, 2015 Sponsored

FDP on Action Research for LivelihoodPromotion for ILRT

HS Shylendra ,Nivedita Kothiyal & Saswata Narayan Biswas

Aug 4-6, 2015 Sponsored

Statistical Quality Control Monark Bag Aug 10-12, 2015 Open

Optimization in Business Situations Rishi Sanwal Aug 19-20, 2015 Open

Practical Answers to Poverty - Marketing of Rural Products Preeti Priya Sept 1-4, 2015 Open

Personal Empowerment and Interpersonal Effectiveness Vijay Menon Sept 24-25, 2015 Open

International Management Appreciation Programme for Voluntary Agencies (VOLAG-MAP)

Nivedita Kothiyal Oct 5-23, 2015 Open

Team Building Hitesh V Bhatt Oct 6-9, 2015 Open


MDP title Coordinators Dates Category

Financial Control in Cooperatives Paresh J Bhatt, Asmita Vyas & Rakesh Ramesh Arrawatia

Oct 13-16, 2015 Open

“Managerial Effectiveness” for the Officers of ISRO, Ahmedabad

Madhavi H. Mehta Oct 17-18, 2015 Sponsored

Design Thinking for Social Innovation Shambu Prasad Chebrolu Nov 2-4, 2015 Open

Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution for CSR Management for Aditya Birla Group

Hitesh V Bhatt Nov 16-20, 2015 Sponsored

Finance for Non-Finance Executives Paresh J Bhatt, Asmita Vyas &Rakesh Ramesh Arrawatia

Nov 24-27, 2015 Open

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods Shyam Singh & Indranil De Nov 26-28, 2015 Open

MDP for the Executives of Fullerton India- Term 1 (On campus)

Girish Agrawal Nov 30-Dec 5, 2015 Sponsored

IRMA Impact Evaluation Winter School Vivek Pandey & Shyam Singh Nov 30-Dec 9, 2015 Open

General Management Development Programme for the Block Programme

Hitesh V Bhatt Dec 8-11, 2015 Sponsored

Data Envelopment Analysis Anand Venkatesh & Rakesh Ramesh Arrawatia

Jan 8-10, 2016 Open

Effective Selling Skills Pratik Modi Jan 11-13, 2016 Open

Strategic Inventory Management Hitesh V Bhatt and Rishi Sanwal Feb 3-4, 2016 Open

Monitoring and Evaluation Vivek Pandey Feb 23-25, 2016 Open

Orientation Training in Communication Skills for KDC Bank

Hitesh V Bhatt Feb 29, 2016 Sponsored

Impact Evaluation Vivek Pandey & Shyam Singh Mar 1-5, 2016 Open

Communication and Presentation Skills Vijay Menon Mar 3-5, 2016 Open

MDP for the Executives of Fullerton India- Term 2 Girish Agrawal Mar 7-12, 2016 Sponsored

Strengthening Dairy Cooperative Leadership Girish Agrawal Mar 15-17, 2016 Sponsored

Strengthening Dairy Leadership and Organizational Excellence

Girish Agrawal Mar 28-Apr 1, 2016 Sponsored

Off-Campus MDPs(April 2015 – March 2016)

MDP title Coordinators Dates Organization

Capacity Building Programme on Disaster Management

Ram Manohar Vikas May 6-8, 2015 Assam State Disaster Management Authority

Project Management & Team Building (FES)

Hitesh Bhatt May 21-26, 2015 FES

General Management Development Programme

Hitesh Bhatt May 27-30, 2015 Kudumbashree

Marketing Skills for MP State Cooperative Dairy Federation Limited

Pratik Modi Aug 21-22, 2015 MP State Cooperative Dairy Federation Limited

Naranpur Express Rakesh Saxena 26 Oct, 2015 National Skills Foundation

Waste Management in Manufacturing Sector

Hitesh Bhatt Nov 26-27 GSFC

Project Management Training Hitesh Bhatt Feb 11-12 AKRSP


Table 8 Research & Consultancy Projects

Concluded ProjectsSI No. Project Title Team

1 Regenerating Forests through People’s Participation: How Far Has the Joint Forest Management (JFM) Worked?

HS Shylendra

2 Dangers of Decentralisation in Urban Slums: A Comparative Study of Water Supply and Drainage Service Delivery in Kolkata, India

Indranil De and Tirthankar Nag

3 Local self-governance, ethnic division in slums and preference for Water Supply Institutions in Kolkata, India

Indranil De and Tirthankar Nag

4 Market Separations for BOP ProducersThe Case of Market Development for the Chanderi Cluster Weavers in India

Ramendra Singh, Sharad Agarwal, and Pratik Modi

5 Impact of Mobile on Women’s Empowerment in Rural Gujarat Ila Patel6 Technology-enabled Inclusive Innovation: A Case from India Vanita Yadav7 Status, Caste, and Market in a Changing Indian Village Ram Manohar Vikas, Rohit Varman, and

Russell W. Belk8 Information Kiosk Based Indian E-Governance Service Delivery: Value Chain

Based Measurement ModellingHarekrishna Misra

9 Framework for User Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Rural India (2013-14) Vanita Yadav10 Behavioural Analysis of Farmers Decision Making on Agricultural

Innovations (2014-2016)MV Durga Prasad

11 Rural and Agricultural Mechanization in Odisha Shambu Prasad12 Dangers of Decentralisation in Urban Slums: A Comparative Study of Water

Supply and Drainage Service Delivery in KolkataIndranil De and Tirthankar Nag

13 How secure is social security? A situational analysis of Social Pensions in Madhya Pradesh

Shyam Singh

14 Making the female assembly work Saswata N. Biswas15 Evaluation of MGNREGA in MP and Chhattisgarh Girish Agrawal, Rakesh Saxena, and

Pramod K. Singh16 Mid-term Impact Evaluation of CCD-ABF Farmers’ Livelihood Project Vivek Pandey and Shyam Singh17 Baseline/ Need Assessment survey for NPCIL-KAPS Paresh Bhatt and Asmita Vyas

Ongoing ProjectsSI No. Project Title IRMA team

1 Rural Management in the context of East Africa Saswata N. Biswas and Debiprasad Mishra2 KMVS supported consultancy Indranil De, Mukul Kumar, and HS Shylendra

3 Climate Change Adaptation Approaches for Sustainable Livelihoods

Pramod K. Singh

4 Designing and Strategizing the implementation of Sustainable Livelihood Interventions in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur Districts of Assam

Pramod K Singh, Harekrishna Mishra, Madhavi Mehta, and Ram Manohar Vikas

5 Scaling Digital Financial Services: Research and Innovation Jeemol Unni, HK Nagarajan, Rakesh Arrawatia, Vivek Pandey, and Shyam Singh

6 Evaluation of MGNREGS in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

Girish Agrawal, Rakesh Saxena, and Pramod Singh

7 Seeding Social Innovation and Enterprise in Universities Shambu Prasad8 Organized Operations of Women Entrepreneurs for

Innovative Agro Products in Karnataka StateParesh Bhatt and MV Durga Prasad

9 The Emerging Role of Women Entrepreneurs in the New Indian Middle Class

Jeemol Unni, Vanita Yadav

10 Conducting value chain studies of several Agri Products in Anantapur& Chittoor District

MV Durga Prasad

11 Restoring the Ganges: Healthier Rivers for Safer Water and more productive agro-ecosystems

Mukul Kumar, Ila Patel and Indranil De.

12 Rural management in the context of East Africa Saswata N. Biswas and Debiprasad Mishra13 Impact of Mobile on Women’s Empowerment Ila Patel


Annexure 2List 1: Thursday Afternoon Special Seminars (TASS) April 2015 to March 2016

Speaker/s Topic Date Remarks

Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee Corporate Social Responsibility: What, Why, How and Challenges Ahead

17.4.2015 Rajan Memorial Lecture

Mr. Arun Kumar History of Management: Management of History 20.4.2015

Dr. Pravesh Sharma The changing face of agriculture and role of farmers’ collectives

11.5.2015

Mr. Devinder Sharma Agriculture Crisis in india: the way forward 14.5.2015

Mr. Devinder Sharma The Science, politics and business of GM crops in Third World

15.5.2015

Prof. Devi Prasad Juvvadi Governance for 21st century agricultural challenges 02-06-2015

Prof. H S Shylendra Enforcing rights-based interventions: the experience of MGNREGA

04-06-2015

Mr. Anshu Gupta The art of giving: why india needs to build a “trash” based economy?

07-09-2015

Dr. Huang Yinghong The evolution of compulsory development and its variations in china: a historical review of land acquisition in China.

22-09-2015

Dr. Priyanie Amerasinghe Valuing wetland ecosystem services in India 15-10-2015

Prof. HS Shylendra How relevant are the federations of Self-Help Groups (SHGs)?: a critical assessment

04-11-2015

Mr. Stephen Biggs and Mr. Scott Justice

A history of rural development debates: recent disruptions and themes in an emerging policy agenda for rural industrialization

26-11-2015

Ms. Shashi Bala Rai The role of individual and programme level factors on social marketing of janani suraksha yojana in western Uttar Pradesh

27-11-2015 FPRM Public Seminar

Mr. Chinmay Tumbe Missing men, migration, and labour markets: evidence from India

01-12-2015

Dr. Mark Lindley “The ‘Economic Man’ Postulate: Ecological Economics and Gandhian Alternatives”

29-12-2015

Mr. Pravesh Sharma Adopting the orphan: can IRMA become the next champion for agriculture?

29-03-2016


IRMA Publications 2015-16IRMA Publications 2015-16Working papers and workshop reports brought out by CORPAS between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016

List 2: WORKING PAPERS

Harekrishna Misra, “Relevance of Measurements in E-Governance: Software Engineering Perspectives in the Indian Context”, WP-272; July 2015

Pramod K. Singh and Harpalsinh Chudasama, “Assessing Impacts and Community Preparedness to Cyclones in the Eastern Coast of India”, WP-273; August 2015

Pramod K. Singh and Harpalsinh Chudasama, “Developing Drought Resilient Livelihoods: A Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping Approach”, WP-274; August 2015

Anand Venkatesh and Falguni Patel, “Roads Facilitating Rural Accessibility: A Critique of the PMGSY”, WP-275; October 2015

Vivek Pandey and Shweta Nawani, “Market Reaction to Mandatory CSR Expenditure: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in India”, WP-276; January 2016

S N Biswas and Debiprasad Mishra, “Making the Mahila Sabha Work: A Study in the Kutch District of Gujarat”, WP-277; March 2016

Jeemol Unni and Sudipa Sarkar, “Exploring Increasing Graduate Intensity in Occupations in India”, WP-278; March 2016

Harekrishna Misra, “Disruptive Rural E-Governance Services for Sustainable Development in Indian Context: Challenges and Opportunities”, WP-279; March 2016

List 3: Workshop Report

Pramod K. Singh and Mushtaq Ahmad Malla, “Producers’ Collectives and Livelihoods: Exploring Issues for Research and Policy”, W#-30; February 2016


List 4: Faculty publications (2015-16)

Journals

Asmita Vyas (2015) “True and Fair View-A fact or Illusion in the world of creative accounting”, International Journal of Multi disciplinary and Current Research, 3, May -June, pp. 572-575.

-------- (2015) “Emerging Issues in Urban Cooperative Banks”, Madras University Journal of Business and Finance; July.

----- (2015) “Changing Accounting Education in India through MOOCS”, EPRA International Journal of Business and Finance, 3(7); July, pp. 2349-0187.

Harekrishna Misra and Sanjay Panigrahi (2015), “Mediating Rural Citizen Participation in e-Governance: Case of Sahaj e-Village Limited”, The Sankalpa, International Journal on Management Decisions, 1(1); its abridged version was presented in IAMCR - 2013.

Harekrishna Misra (2015), “Information Kiosk Based Indian E-Governance Service Delivery: Value Chain Based Measurement Modelling”, The Journal of Community Informatics, 11(1), Canada.

------ (2016), “Architectural Orientation of Information Systems in Managing Agri-based Interventions: Learning in Indian Context”, The Sankalpa, International Journal on Management Decisions, pp. 1-18; October-March.

Hari K. Nagarajan, Klaus Deininger & Sudhir Singh (2016), “Short-term effects of India’s Employment Guarantee Program on labor markets and agricultural productivity; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; forthcoming.

-------, Klaus Deininger , D. Monchuk & S. Singh (2016), “Does land fragmentation increase the cost of cultivation? Evidence from India”, Journal of Development Studies, April.

------ and Andrew Foster (2016), “Spillovers, coordination failure, and the consequences of land fragmentation in rural India”, Journal of Political Economy; forthcoming.

------, Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, and Fang Xia (2015) “Does female reservation affect long-term political outcomes? Evidence from rural India”, 51(1), pp. 32-49.

HS Shylendra, “Regenerating Forests through People’s Participation: How far has

the Joint Forest Management Worked?”, Society and Management Review, 4(2), pp. 152-165.

Indranil De andTirthankar Nag (2016), “Dangers of Decentralization in Urban Slums: A Comparative Study of Water Supply and Drainage Service Delivery in Kolkata, India”, Development Policy Review, 34 (2), pp. 253-267; March.

Prasad and Indranil De (2016), “Drinking water supply system for rural India and the role of technology: Implications for the Post 2015 Agenda”, Global Water Forum; February 29.

Jeemol Unni (2016), “Skill Gaps and Employability: Higher Education in India”, Journal of Developing Policy and Practice, 1(1), Sage Publications (New Delhi), pp. 18-34 ; January.

Ramendra Singh, Sharad Agarwal, and Pratik Modi (2015), “Market Separations for BoP Producers: The Case of Market Development for the Chanderi Cluster Weavers in India”, International Journal of Rural Management, 11 (2), 175-193.

Gordon-Wilson, Sianne & Pratik Modi (2015), “Personality and Older Consumers’ Green Behaviour in the UK”, Futures, 71, pp.1-10, August. (doi:10.1016/j.futures.2015.05.002)

Rakesh Arrawatia, A.K. Misra & V. Dawar (2015), “Bank Competition and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Indian Market”, International Journal of Law and Management, 57(2).

Ram Manohar Vikas, Rohit Varman & Russell W Belk (2015), “Status, Caste, and Market in Changing Indian Village”, Journal of Consumer Research, published online: http://jcr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/07/12/jcr.ucv038; July, 13


-------- (2015), ‘ “I will Give Gold, Silver and Gold Coins”, says Bride’s Mother: Ethnomusicology of Consumer Culture in Ritual Songs in India’, Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research, 11, pp. 85-89. Published online: https://www.acrwebsite.org/assets/PDFs/60340%20ACR%20Asia-Pacific%20Vol%2010_hires.pdf

Saswata N. Biswas (2015) “Organizational Behaviour Research in Rural Producers’ Cooperatives A Neglected Domain”, International Journal of Rural Management, 11(1), pp. 40-59.

Sudhhachit Mitra, Vanita Yadav, Saswata N. Biswas (2015). “Child in Need Institute (CINI): Changing Lives of Homeless Children on Railway Stations”. South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, 4(1); June.

Shyam Singh and Yogesh Kumar (2015), “Social Security: A Situational Analysis of Social Pensions in Madhya Pradesh”, Indian Journal of Public Administration, 81(4); October- December.

Vanita Yadav and P. Goyal (2015). “User Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Case studies from rural India”, Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 4(1), pp. 1-20; April 22.

-------- (2015). “Social Entrepreneurship: Innovative Solutions to Social Problems”, International Journal of Rural Management, 11(2); October.

Shubhomoy Banerjee, V. Yadav, and S.C. Banerjee (2015), “A Social Marketing Framework for Innovation and Technology Adoption- Case of Agricultural Extension in India”, Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics, 4(2), pp. 63-82; October.

Vanita Yadav (2016), “Technology-enabled Inclusive Innovation: A case from India”, International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy, 7(1), pp. 1-11; January.

------, Adya, M, Nath D, and Sridhar V. (2016), “Considerations for Effective Requirements Analysis in offshore software development projects: Lessons from multi-method research”, Communications of the Association of Information Systems, 39, pp. 188-213; March.

------ (2016), “A Flexible Management Approach for Globally Distributed Software Projects”, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 17(1), pp. 29-40; July.

Book Chapters

Asmita Vyas (2015 “Rural Marketing” -Proceedings of International Conference on Value creation for sustainable growth in 21st Century, pp.46-55; ISBN 978-81-923592-2-9.

Asmita Vyas (2015) “Micro Finance and Business Economic Development”-Proceedings of International Conference on Value creation for sustainable growth in 21st Century;pg157-168; ISBN 978-81-923592-2-9

C. Shambu Prasad (2015), “Creating Knowledge Spaces through Knowledge Dialogues”, Knowledge for Change: Essays in memory of Dr NK Sanghi, WASSAN and Permanent Green: Hyderabad, India; Eds: K. Suresh et al, pp. 44-57.

Online: http://wassan.org/sri/documents/In

HS Shylendra (2015), “Strengthening Links of National Service Scheme for Community Development” in L.Kma (ed) Role of National Service Scheme in Nation Building: Scope and Challenges, Excel India Publishers: New Delhi, pp 7-25.

Harekrishna Misra & S. Panigrahi (2015), “E-Governance and Rural-Urban Continuum: Study in Indian Context”, E-Governance and Urban Policy Design in Developing Countries, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Eds: Fabienne Perucca (UN-Habitat) and Peter Sonntagbaeur (Cellent AG), (Volume) 978-92-1-132673-4, pp.110-122.

Gourav Misra, Harekrishna Misra, and Christopher A. Scot (2016), “Understanding Factors Influencing Hydro-cliamtic Risk and Human Vulnerability: Application of Systems Thinking in the Himalayan Region”, in Climate Change , Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalayas, pp. 251-267; January.

Harekrishna Misra and SR Asokan (2016), “Amul’s IT-Enabled Service Delivery to Dairy Farmers”, Ivey Publishing; June 23.


Books

Hari K. Nagarajan, Hans Binswanger & S.S Meenakshisundaram (2015) Decentralisation and Empowerment for Rural Development, Cambridge University Press (India).

N. L. Ahuja, V. Dawar & Rakesh Arrawatia (2015), Corporate Finance, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd, 978-81-203-5161-5.

Cases

Paresh Bhatt (2015), “Budgetary Control Case Study and Teaching Notes’, Suneeta Laboratories Ltd, Case center UK, Case registration number: 115-025-01.

Hari K. Nagarajan, Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Monchuk & Sudhir Singh (2016), “Does Land Fragmentation Increase the Cost of Cultivation? Evidence from India”, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper (No. 7085) and Journal of Development Studies; April.

Hari K. Nagarajan, Klaus W. Deininger, Songqing Jin & Fang Xia (2016), “Inheritance law reform, empowerment, and human capital accumulation: second-generation effects from India, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, (7086) and forthcoming in World Development.

List 5: Workshops/Seminars/Conferences/Training Programmes

Anand Venkatesh

Presented paper on “Analysis of Drivers of Fuel Efficiency in Indian Bus Companies using Data Envelopment Analysis” with S. Ray and Shivam Kushwaha at 52nd Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society, IIM Kozhikode; January 4-6, 2016.

Girish Agrawal

Presented paper on “CSR CFP relationship in India- An idiosyncratic PESTEL context and Research Agenda” at Global Summit on Corporate Social Responsibility Conference organized by IIM Raipur at New Delhi; May 15, 2015.

HS Shylendra

Attended meeting of Technical Advisory Group for the Biodiversity Finance Initiative in India at Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, New Delhi; July 13, 2015.

Participated as external examiner in viva voce exam of Ph.D thesis at SJSOM, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), Mumbai; July 14, 2015.

Participated in first meeting of Agricultural Task force of State Planning Commission, Chattisgarh; July 31, 2015.

Presented paper on “Institutions of the Poor: A Critical Assessment of the Role of the Federations of Self-Help Groups (SHGs)” at the 4th national seminar on ‘Microfinance: Issues & Challenges’ organized at BIRD, Lucknow; October 16-17, 2015.

Participated at the 75th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Agricultural Economics held at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana; November 19-21, 2015.

Conducted seminar on “How Relevant are the Federations of Self-Help Group (SHGs): A Critical Assessment” at Institute of Rural Management, Anand; November 4, 2015.

Attended a meeting of the Board of Studies in Economics, MS University of Baroda, as a Member; July 24, 2015.

Attended the first meeting of the Task Force for Poverty Elimination, Government of Chhattisgarh at Raipur as an IRMA representative; August 1, 2015.

Conducted Naranpur Express simulation game at KGVK, Rukka, Ranchi (Jharkhand), during a “Train the Trainers” programme organized by the Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD) for the “Green Colleges” incubated by the National Skills Foundation of India (NSFI); October 26, 2015.


Harekrishna Misra

Presented paper on “Service Oriented Architecture led Producer Centric Supply Chain: Learning in Indian Context” at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), Singapore; 6-9, December, 2015.

Presented paper on “Transacting Jan-Dhan and Learning for Scale up: Ground Realities” at Conference on Transacting Yan Dhan Yojana, Conference-Series III, Kolkata; July 6, 2015.

Hitesh Bhatt

Attended International Conference on ‘Operations Management and Research’ - Towards Operational Excellence, Mysore. Presented paper on ““Application of Logical Framework Approach (LFA) in getting success in various projects initiated by the corporate”; January 21-22, 2016.

Indranil De

Presented paper with Uday Shankar entitled “Technology matters: ensuring drinking water supplies to rural households” at the 38th WEDC International Conference on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services Beyond 2015: Improving access and sustainability at Loughborough University, United Kingdom; July 27 – 3, 2015.

Presented with Prof. Saswata N Biswas paper on “Agribusiness, climate change, and collective institutions: A case study of cardamom cultivation in North Sikkim” at International Conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies, Institute of Rural Management Anand, Anand; January 6-7, 2016.

Presented with Tirthankar Nag paper on “Local Self-governance, Ethnic Division in Slums and Preference for Water Supply Institutions in Kolkata, India” at 8th Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru; January 4-6, 2016.

Jeemol Unni

Addressed valedictory function of Group ‘A’ Foundation Programme on “Indian Railways: The next big push for growth” at the National Academy of Indian Railways at Vadodara; April 30, 2015.

Presented paper on “Production Linkages and Sustainability of Informal Enterprises” at a seminar on “Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development in India” organized by the Institute of Human Development (IHD), Delhi; August 1-3, 2015.

Delivered lecture on “Education, Wages and Informality in Chinese and Indian Labour Markets” at SARNET Training Programme for Young South Asian Scholars on “Labour Economics: Theories, Methodologies and Research Issues” organized by Institute of Human Development (IHD), Delhi; November 6 2015.

Attended first formal editorial board meeting of the Journal of Development Policy and Practice, AEequitas Consulting, New Delhi; October 1, 2015.

Delivered lecture on “Education, Wages and Informality in Chinese and Indian Labour Markets” at the SARNET Training Programme for Young South Asian Scholars on ‘Labour Economics: Theories, Methodologies and Research Issues’ organized by Institute of Human Development (IHD), Delhi; November 6, 2015.

Delivered keynote address in Catalyst 2016, a national conference for students on Redefining Canons organized by HL College of Commerce, Ahmedabad; on February 19, 2016.

Participated in Global Action on Poverty (GAP) 2016, at Sabarmati Ashram; February 20-21, 2016.

MV Durga Prasad

Presented paper on “Application of n-person zero sum game in vegetable mandi transactions” at International conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies at IRMA, Anand; January 6-7, 2016.

Presented paper on “Organized operations of women entrepreneurs for innovative agro products: case study” with Prof. Paresh Bhatt at International conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies at IRMA, Anand; January 6-7, 2016


Presented paper on “Role of institutional mooring and tangibility of friendly relationships in agribusiness start-up: case study of Pancharatna Organics” with Prof. Ram Manohar Vikas at at International conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies at IRMA, Anand; January 6-7, 2016.

Mukul Kumar

Attended workshop on Sanitation, Waste Management and Pollution in the Ganges Basin in Lucknow; August 24, 2015.

Nivedita Kothiyal

Presented paper with E. Bell on “Mimicry and Resistance in the Globalization of Management Research” at British Academy of Management (BAM) conference, organized by Portsmouth Business School, Portsmouth; September 8-10, 2015.

Presented paper with E. Bell on “Methodology-as-Technique and the Globalization of Management Research’’ at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Vancouver; August 7-11, 2015.

Pramod K. Singh

Presented paper with H. Chudasama on “Reducing Drought related Risks and Building Drought Resilient Livelihoods Using People’s Perception” at international conference on Disaster Risk Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Growth, organized by the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM), hosted by the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), New Delhi, India; 28-30 October, 2015.

Presented paper with H. Chudasama on “Evaluation and Enhancement of Communities’ Preparedness to Cyclones Using Peoples’ Perception at international conference on Disaster Risk Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Growth, organized by the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM), hosted by the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), New Delhi, India; 28-30 October, 2015.

Attended international conference on ‘Systems Analysis’ at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; November 11-13, 2015.

Spoke at seminar on ‘Capturing interactions between natural and human systems using stakeholders participation’ at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, November 26.

Pratik Modi

Presented paper with Satyendra Nath Mishra and Nilamadhav Mohanty on “The missing market orientation in livelihood programmes of the development sector: A case of right diagnosis but wrong pills” at the 9th ISDSI international conference, Goa Institute of Management; January 2-4, 2016.

Rakesh Saxena

Presented paper on “Socio-Economic and Environmental Performance across North-Eastern States of India” at national seminar on ‘Poverty, Inequality and Health in India with special reference to North-East India’ at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong; October 8-10, 2015.

Presented paper on “Current Status of Human Development in Gujarat” at national seminar on ‘Status of Human Development in Gujarat’ at Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad; November 3-4, 2015.

Attended national seminar on “Financing of Agri-Commodity Value Chains: Challenges and Opportunities” held at Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow, November 29-30.

Ram Manohar Vikas

Presented paper on “The Kaleidoscope of Road Crossings: Intersection of Homelessness and Market in India” at International Conference of Transformative Consumer Research, Villanova University, Philadelphia (USA); May 31-June 2, 2015.


Presented paper on “ ‘I will Give Gold, Silver and Gold Coins’, says Bride’s Mother: Ethnomusicology of Consumer Culture in Ritual Songs in India”at Asia Pacific Conference of Association of Consumer Researchers, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong; June 19-21, 2015.

Saswata N. Biswas

Presented paper with Preeti Priya on “Materialism and Subjective Wellbeing in Rural India” at Centenary Conference of Psychology organized by the University of Calcutta, Kolkata; October 9-11, 2015.

Shambu Prasad

Reviewed PhD thesis and sent report on “Value Chains and Small Enterprise Development” of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) School of Management and Labour Studies; April 12, 2015.

Presented paper with Chitra Krishnan on “Co-creating knowledge for rural transformation: universities as knowledge brokers” at the 2nd International Conference on Transformation for Rural Development: Collaboration and Co-Production of Knowledge, Ambedkar University and Charles Strut University and PRADAN; April 19-21, 2015.

Presented paper on “Adoption or Adaptation: Issues in diffusing sustainable innovations at the margins in India” at 2015 Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) at Ontario, Canada at a special panel on “Diffusion of environmental innovations among MSMEs: learning across disciplines”; June 3-5, 2015.

Presented and delivered special public lecture at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) on “Agricultural Debates and Policy Choices: Opportunities from a non-linear reading of Indian agriculture”; September 23, 2015.

Participated at workshop on “Governance issues in Producer Organizations” by NDDB, Anand; October 8, 2015.

Was part of the PhD defense of Mr. Debashish Sen as a co-promoter of his thesis at Wageningen University Netherlands on “How Smallholder Farmers in Uttarakhand Reworked the System of Rice Intensification: Innovations from Sociotechnical Interactions in Fields and Villages”; November 20, 2015.

Presented paper with Pratyaya Jagannath on “Agricultural Mechanisation, Labour and Public Policy: The contrasting tales of Power Tillers and Mandwa Weeders in Odisha” at the 4th Annual Network of Rural and Agrarian Studies (NRAS) International Conference at GB Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad; December 18-20, 2015.

Presented paper on “Uprooting Rice Science: An Indian Perspective on controversies and production of knowledge on SRI” at international conference on ‘Contested Agronomy: Whose agronomy counts?’ at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex(UK); February 23-25, 2016.

Shyam Singh

Presented paper on “Culture of Evaluation: Women Empowerment Programs under the CSR Initiatives” at workshop on Engendered Evaluation, organized by Niti Ayog and ISST, New Delhi; October 16, 2015.

List 6: Publications of FPRM participants

Mitra, Suddhachit, Yadav, Vanita, & Biswas, Saswata. (2015). Child in Need Institute (CINI), “Changing Lives of Homeless Children on Railway Stations”, South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, 4(1), pp. 122-134.

FPRM participation at Conferences/ Seminars/ Workshops• Mishra S.N. presented a paper entitled, “Policy Implementation and Institutional Dynamics: A Study

of Jatropha Based Biofuel Policy in Chhattisgarh, India” at a doctoral public seminar at IRMA.• Mitra S. worked as member of an IRMA consulting team under faculty guidance on a project entitled

“Market Survey of Organic Food Products in Gorakhpur and Adjoining Districts” from October 2015 to January 2016.

• Mitra S. floated (under the guidance of and along with faculty) an FPCR (Faculty Participant Collaborative Report) entitled “Postponement at Farm Level - An Investigation into Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decision to Postpone Sale of Harvest” for VFS (Village Field Segment) 2015.

• Rai, S.B. presented a paper on The Role of Individual and Programme level factors on Social Marketing of JANANI SURAKSHA YOJANA in Western Uttar Pradesh” at Doctoral Coloquium at IRMA on November 27, 2015.


FacultyRC Natarajan Ph.D (Manipal University) Director

Jeemol Unni, former Director Ph.D (Gujarat University), M.Phil (JNU)

Anand Venkatesh Ph.D (University of Mumbai)

Asmita Vyas CA (ICWA)

Debiprasad Mishra Fellow (IIMA)

Girish Agrawal Ph.D (IIT, Mumbai)

HS Shylendra Ph.D (ISEC, Bangalore)

Harekrishna Misra Ph.D (Utkal University)

Hari Krishnan Nagarajan Ph.D (University of Oklahoma)

Hitesh Bhatt M.S. (Georgia Tech)

Indranil De Ph.D (JNU)

MV Durga Prasad Ph. D (IIT, Delhi)

Madhavi Mehta Fellow (XRI-AHRD)

Monark Bag (Jadavpur University)

Mukul Kumar Ph.D (Delhi University)

Nivedita Kothiyal Ph.D (NIRMA University)

Paresh Bhatt LLB, AICWA

Pramod K. Singh Ph.D (JNU)

Pratik Modi MBA (SPU), FPRM (IRMA)

Preeti Priya Ph.D (SPU)

Rakesh Arrawatia Ph.D (IIT, Kharagpur)

Rakesh Saxena Ph.D (IIT, Kanpur)

Ram Manohar Vikas Ph.D (IIT, Kanpur)

SR Asokan Ph.D (Gujarat University)

Saswata N. Biswa Ph.D (Allahabad University)

Shambu Prasad Chebrolu Fulbright Senior Fellow (Cornell University)

Shyam Singh Ph.D (ISEC, Bangalore)

Vivek Pandey Ph.D (Michigan State University)

Vanita Yadav Post Doctoral Fellow (MIT)


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT ANAND

BALANCE SHEET

2015 – 2016


Independent Auditors’ ReportTo

To the Members of Institute of Rural Management, Anand

Report on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Institute of Rural Management, Anand (“the Entity”), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at March 31, 2016, the Income & Expenditure Account for the year then ended and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements

The Entity’s Trustees are responsible for the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position and financial performance of the Entity in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India including the applicable accounting standards. This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of The Gujarat Public Trust Act, 1950 (“the Act”) for safeguarding of the assets of the Entity and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls and ensuring their operating effectiveness and the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor’s Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

We have taken into account the provisions of the Act, the accounting and auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing. Those Standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors’ judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant to the Entity’s preparation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on whether the Entity has in place an adequate internal financial controls system over financial reporting and the operating effectiveness of such controls. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Entity’s Trustees, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the financial statements.

Opinion

In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid financial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Entity as at March 31, 2016 and its excess of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.


Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements

As required by Sub section 2 of section 34 of the Act, we report as under:

a) The accounts are maintained regularly and in accordance with the provisions of the Gujarat Public Trust Act, 1950.

b) The receipt and disbursement is properly shown in the accounts.

c) The cash balance and vouchers are in the custody of the Accountant on the date of audit were in agreement with the accounts.

d) All the books, deeds, accounts, vouchers and other documents of the records required by us, were produced before us.

e) During the year, the Trust did not hold any inventories of movables.

f) The chief Finance Officer appeared before us and furnished the necessary information required by us.

g) No property or funds of the Trust were applied for any object or purpose other than for the object of trust.

h) There is no amount which is outstanding for more than one year from the due date of Scheduled payment as at March 31, 2016.

i) During the year, tender were not invited in all cases where the repairs and construction expenditure exceeds ` 5,000.

j) No Money of the trust has been invested contrary to the provision of Section 35 except investment of ` 300 lacs invested in Power Finance Corporation bond in earlier year for which permission of office of Charity Commissioner had been sought and awaited.

k) There has not been alienation of immovable property contrary to the provisions of the section 36 which have come to our notice.

(Membership No.48650) FOR HARIBHAKTI & CO. LLP, Chartered Accountants (ICAI Firm Registration No.103523W)

Atul Gala Anand Partner DATE :August 05, 2016 (Membership No. 48650)


INSTITUTE OF RURAL

BALANCE SHEET AS

As per our report of even date attachedFor HARIBHAKTI & CO.LLPChartered AccountantsICAI FRN No.: 103523W

Atul GalaPartnerMembership No.: 048650

PLACE : AnandDATE : August 05, 2016

Funds and Liabilities Sch 31.03.2016`

31.03.2015`

Trust Fund & Corpus A 199,010,000 199,010,000

Earmarked Fund B 282,997,543 288,382,813

Other Grant Fund C 104,833,297 73,477,374

Liabilities D 133,086,857 100,284,022

Income & Expenditure Account E 143,641,607 140,716,226

Total 863,569,304 801,870,435

(Significant accounting policies and other notes forming part of Accounts at Schedule “U”)


MANAGEMENT, ANAND

ON 31ST MARCH, 2016

CHAIRMAN DIRECTOR CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER

PLACE : ANANDDATE : August 05, 2016

Regd. No. : F/194/ANANDDate of Reg. : December 14, 1979FCRA Account No. : 008501016810FCRA No. : 042040048Date : March 14, 1985Bank Address : VV Nagar, Anand Gujarat-388001

Property and Assets Sch 31.03.2016`

31.03.2015`

Fixed assets F 214,037,562 177,999,511

Investments G 108,786,800 167,986,800

Loans and Advances H 41,783,395 36,300,397

Income Receivables I 15,302,895 15,246,836

Cash and Bank balances J 483,658,652 404,336,891

Total 863,569,304 801,870,435

For and on behalf of the Institute of Rural Management Anand Board


INSTITUTE OF RURAL

INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR

As per our report of even date attachedFor HARIBHAKTI & CO.LLPChartered AccountantsICAI FRN No.: 103523W

Atul GalaPartnerMembership No.: 048650

PLACE : AnandDATE : August 05, 2016

Expenditure Sch 2015-16`

2014-15`

Expenditure in respect of properties K 31,603,078 23,378,428

Salaries L 112,582,895 120,556,110

Expenditure on Rural Management Course M 17,498,139 15,816,377

Other expenses N 24,537,772 25,540,445

Grant Expenditure O 54,500,090 49,443,990

Excess of income over expenditure

carried over to balance sheet 4,627,679

Total 245,349,653 234,735,350

(Significant accounting policies and other notes forming part of Accounts at Schedule “U”)


MANAGEMENT, ANAND

THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2016

Regd. No. : F/194/ANANDDate of Reg. : December 14, 1979FCRA Account No. : 008501016810FCRA No. : 042040048Date : March 14, 1985Bank Address : VV Nagar, Anand Gujarat-388001

CHAIRMAN DIRECTOR CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER

PLACE : ANANDDATE : August 05, 2016

Income Sch 2015-16`

2014-15`

Income from investment P 38,040,545 36,445,292

Tution and other fee Q 112,048,701 112,300,628

Donation in cash or Kind - 105,001

Other income R 35,452,287 34,300,127

License fee (Staff quarter) S 1,642,596 1,138,681

Grant Income T 58,165,524 49,443,990

Excess of expenditure over income

carried over to balance sheet - 1,001,631

Total 245,349,653 234,735,350


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULES FORMING PART OF BALANCE SHEET

SCHEDULE 'A'

TRUST FUND AND CORPUS

Particulars As at March

2016`

As at March 2015

`

Corpus Fund 199,010,000 199,010,000

Add: Received during the year - -

Total 199,010,000 199,010,000


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'B'

EARMARKED FUND


2016`

As at March 2015

`

1 Restricted Grant Fund

a) Reserve Fund (IRMA Board) :

Balance as per last Balance Sheet 1,740,350 1,740,350

Transfer from Interest earned on Corpus Fund 1,650,000 -

Total ………………………… 3,390,350 1,740,350

b) Hostel Renovation Fund (Alumni) :

Balance as per last Balance Sheet 50,000 -

Received during year - 50,000

Total ………………………… 50,000 50,000

Total Restricted Grant Fund……………………. 3,440,350 1,790,350

2 Endowment Grant :

a) Bank of Baroda Chair :


Add : Interest earned during the year 384,648 329,744

4,923,996 4,539,348

b) Reserve Bank Of India :


: Interest earned / recovery during the year 3,623,840 3,460,121

Less : Expenditure incurred during the year (3,020,163) (2,931,136)

44,557,478 43,953,801

c) IRMAns In Distress Fund :

Balance as per last Balance Sheet 529,440 438,389

Add : Received during the year 111,111 218,000

: Interest earned / recovery during the year 43,098 23,051

Less : Expenditure incurred during the year - (150,000)

683,649 529,440

d) T.S. Rajan Endowment :


Add: Interest earned during the year 2,949 2,097

35,046 32,097

e) Kuchibhotla Vasanthi Endowment :



Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (9,831) (6,990)

100,000 100,000



2016`

As at March 2015

`

f) PRM 83-85 Batch Fund :


Add : Interest earned during the year 27,859 19,812

331,065 303,206

g) Sector Incentive Scholarship Fund



5,367,565 5,855,052

h) Prof. Shiladitya Roy Memorial Award Fund


Add : Received during the year - 55,500



108,084 108,013

j) NABARD Chair

Add : Received during the year 3,000,000 -

Add: Interest earned during the year 50,214 -

Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (2,947,065) -

103,149 -

Total ………………………… 56,210,032 55,420,957

3 Capital Grant Fund :

a) National Dairy Development Board :

(For Capital Expenditure)


Less: Depreciation for the year adjusted (253,402) (2,857,002)

4,202,695 4,456,097

b) Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation :



Less: Depreciation for the year adjusted (799,225) (847,685)

14,641,677 15,440,902

c) Ford Foundation :



Less: Transfer to Income & Expenditure Account - (211,933)


66,012 73,676

d) Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation :

( For Capital Expenditure : towards Carillon Tower)

Balance as per last balance sheet 599,332 665,924


539,399 599,332

e) (i) Minsitry of Rural Development (Toward Expansion)

Balance as per last balance sheet 70,196,678 167,189,031

Add: Interest Earned during year 4,476,075 9,503,607

Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (917) (360)

Less: Transfer to Fixed Assets (49,353,317) (106,495,600)

25,318,519 70,196,678



2016`

As at March 2015

`

(ii) Fixed assets acquisition (MoRD Fixed Assets)


Building -CWIP 49,353,317 102,653,572

Other fixed assets - 3,842,028

Less: Depreciation Charged During Year (11,123,215) (662,135)

177,044,148 138,814,046

(iii) Fixed Assets Acquisition out of E library & IT fund

Balance as per last balance sheet - -

Fixed Assets Addition 1,694,414 -

Less: Depreciation Charged During Year (1,008,797) -

685,617 -

f) Department of Science and Technology

(DST-Research Grant) LGK01000-LGK02004


Less: Depreciation Charged During Year (10,027) (25,068)

6,685 16,712

g) SDTT

(Prof. Vivek Pandey)

Fixed Asset Additon 55,500 -

Less: Depreciation Charged During Year (16,650) -

Capital Grant FCRA Fund

h) International Development Research Centre

(Assets Acquired from IDRC Grant)


Fixed Asset Additon 29,250 6,781,031

Less: Fixed Assets written off (SAP) (5,355,000)

Less: Depreciation for the year (834,754) (1,587,611)

768,559 1,574,064

i) JP Morgan

(Assets Acquired from JPM Grant)

Balance as per last balance sheet -

Fixed Asset Additon 50,000 -

Less: Depreciation for the year (15,000) -

35,000 -

Total ………………………… 223,347,161 231,171,507

Total Earmarked Fund ………………………… 282,997,543 288,382,813


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'C'

OTHER GRANTS


2016`

As at March 2015

`

1 Sir Ratan Tata Trust


1,248,915 1,248,915

2 Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation :

(towards the PRM Program of IRMA-Amul Draw Down Fund)


652,407 652,407

3 Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation :

(towards the fellowship of Potential Managers to IRMA-Amul FPRM Grant)


Add : Received during the year - 612,000

Less : Fellowship amount paid during the year (54,278) (561,402)

- 54,278

4 Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation :

(towards Silver jubilee Symposium)


Less : Incurred seminar (157,600) -

- 157,600

5 Sir Dorabji Tata Trust :

(towards Conducting MDP)


Less : MDP Scholarship (387,227) -

34,160 421,387

6 Sir Dorabji Tata Trust :

(Towards Research & Training for NGOs)



Less: Amount Refunded (704,731) -

- 684,286

7 SDC-Local Governance Initiative, South Asia

(Towards Decentralisation & Local Governance)


Add : Interest Earned during year - 158,565

Less: Interest allocated in previous year transfer to Income & Expenditure Account

(457,246) -

Less: Unutilzed Grant Transfer to Grant Income (3,665,434) -

- 4,122,680



2016`

As at March 2015

`

8 Ministry of Science & Technology(Towards Research on Climate change)Balance as per last balance sheet (255,626) 77,875 Add : Received during the year 255,626 1,049,738 Interest Earned during year - 134 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year - (1,383,373)(Shown as Grant receivable under Receivables) - (255,626)

9 The Department of Science & Technologies under Ministry of Science & Technology (A) Towards Micro Planning for Inclusive Development in IndiaBalance as per last balance sheet 719,022 191,637 Amount received during the year - 1,100,000 Add: Interest Earned during year 22,848 38,335 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (357,435) (610,950)

384,435 719,022 10 The Ministry of Rural Development

(A) Expansion, Establishment of Centre of Excellence, GGK, E-Library and FIDCBalance as per last balance sheet 60,507,282 62,920,315 Amount received during the year - - Add: Interest Earned during year 4,652,857 7,672,983 Add: Other Income - 40,000 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (20,724,188) (10,126,016)

44,435,951 60,507,282

11 Technology Information, Forcasting and Assessment Council(Climate Changes)Balance as per last balance sheet 12,410 12,410 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (12,410) -

- 12,410 12 Technology Information, Forcasting and Assessment Council

(Climate Change Adaptation Approaches SL-Grant)Balance as per last balance sheet 1,523,356 555,790 Amount received during the year - 2,500,000 Add: Interest earned during year 36,233 50,987 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (1,453,006) (1,583,421)

106,583 1,523,356

13 Indian Council of Agriculture Research(Behavioral Analy of FarmersDecisionMaking)Balance as per last balance sheet 598,540 - Amount received during the year 848,580 2,017,800 Add: Interest earned during year 10,427 20,855 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (1,267,745) (1,440,115)

189,802 598,540 14 National Insitute of Rural Development, Hyderabad

Balance as per last balance sheet (1,095,000) - Amount received during the year - 3,450,000 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year - (4,545,000)(Shown as Grant receivable under Receivables) (1,095,000) (1,095,000)



2016`

As at March 2015

`

15 Seed Money-Organic Research-IncomeBalance as per last balance sheet 13,097 20,107 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year - (7,010)

13,097 13,097 16 ICSSR- Prof. Hari Nagarajan (Gender)

(Reserch on Political of Inclusive Growth in India)Balance as per last balance sheet - - Amount received during the year 1,200,000 - Add: Interest earned during year 23,250 - Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (1,040,531) -

182,719 - 17 ICSSR-Prof. Jeemol (Women)

(Reserch on Political of Inclusive Growth in India)Balance as per last balance sheet - - Amount received during the year 1,600,000 - Add: Interest earned during year 59,826 - Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (843,665) -

816,161 - 18 IWMI


302,181 - 19 British Council

(Social Enterprise Education Program)Balance as per last balance sheet - - Amount received during the year 1,400,000 - Add: Interest earned during year 7,776 - Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (273,089) -

1,134,687 -

20 Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (ICAR Conference)Amount received during the year 471,000 - Less: Unutilized Amount Refunded (66,949) - Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (404,051) -

- - 21 Sir Dorabji Tata Trust

(Impact Assesment of SRI program - Assesment of quality of life of the beneficiary)Amount received during the year 3,000,000 - Add: Interest earned during year 24,812 - Less: Utilization for Fixed Assets acqusition (55,500) - Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (151,632) -

2,817,680 - 21 Sir Dorabji Tata Trust

(Sector Incentive Scheme)Amount received during the year 3,000,000 - Add: Interest earned during year 7,233 -

3,007,233 - Total……………………….. 55,326,011 69,364,633



2016`

As at March 2015

`1 International Development Research Centre

(A) Towards Institutional Support to PROBalance as per last balance sheet 2,559,138 9,061,620 Add : Received during the year - 9,126,990 Add : Interest earned During Year - 336,662 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (55,083) (9,185,104)Less: Utilised for acquisition of Fixed assets 12 (B) (29,250) (6,781,031)

2,474,805 2,559,138 2 International Development Research Centre - CAARIA

(LGP00000 -LGP01005)Balance as per last balance sheet - 130,254 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year - (130,254)

- - 3 Deutsches Institute for Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

(Reserch on Political of Inclusive Growth in India)Balance as per last balance sheet - 560,936 Amount received during the year - 4,490,255 Add: Interest earned during year - 9,762 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year - (5,060,953)

- - 4 Ford Foundation (Organizing Con on Imps of 97Con Amn for Coop Sec)

Balance as per last balance sheet 202,977 195,191 Amount received during the year - - Add: Interest earned during year 6,090 7,786 Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (209,067) -

- 202,977 5 Brown University


6,917,075 - 6 PEP

(Reserch on Political of Inclusive Growth in India)Balance as per last balance sheet - - Amount received during the year 1,140,444 - Add: Interest earned during year 9,807 - Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (645) -

1,149,606 - 7 J P Morgan

(Reserch on Financial Inclusion in India)Balance as per last balance sheet - - Amount received during the year 39,000,000 - Add: Interest earned during year 504,401 - Less: Utilization towards Fixed Assets acqusition (50,000) - Less: Expenditure incurred during the year (2,821,586) -

36,632,815 - Accumulated Inerest Account

26 Opening Balance (Transferred from Reserve) (Refer Note 7 of Sch. U II) 2,337,568 - Add: Interest During Year 76,131 - Less: Utilised for research or conference (80,713) -

2,332,986 - Total FCRA Grant……………………. 49,507,286 2,762,115

Total Other Grant Fund…………………….. 104,833,297 73,477,374


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'D'

LIABILITIES

SCHEDULE 'E'

INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT


2016`

As at March 2015

`

Sundry Creditors for Capital Goods 6,225,266 8,291,098

Sundry Creditors for Services 14,976,372 6,162,974

Balance in Projects & Management Development Programme 8,243,209 2,750,066

Sundry Deposits 5,225,475 4,134,311

Other payables 15,515,604 11,843,071

Statutory Dues 4,648,198 10,155,339

Provision for Gratuity and Leave Encashment 63,843,938 56,947,163

(Refer Note 3 of Sch. U II) -

-

Defferred Revenue 14,408,795 -

Total……………………….. 133,086,857 100,284,022


2016`

As at March 2015

`


Add: Interest allocated on SDC Login Grant now reversed 457,246 211,933

Less : Assets Written off - (1,345,699)

Building under NDDB Grant (1,339,392)

TDS Receivable written off - (145,106)

Less: 10% of the interest on Corpus Fund Transferred to Reserve Fund (IRMA Board) (Refer Note 9 of Sch. U II)

(1,650,000) -

Less: Accumulated interest of FCRA wrongly taken in Income & Expenditure now Transferred (Refer Note 7 of Sch. U II)

(2,337,568) -

Add: Amount of Grautiy & EL Encashment for FY 2013-14 & FY 2014-15 adjusted under MoRD Grant (Refer Note 6 of Sch. U II)

1,828,024 -

Add(less) : Excess of Income/(expenditure) over expenditure/Income for the year 4,627,679 (1,001,631)

Total ………………………… 143,641,607 140,716,226


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INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'G'

INVESTMENTS

SCHEDULE 'H'

LOANS AND ADVANCES(UNSECURED - CONSIDERED GOOD)

SCHEDULE 'I'

INCOME RECEIVABLES


2016`

As at March 2015

Òut of RBI Chair Fund (Unquoted)Govt. of India 2017 - 7.46% Bonds 6,250,000 6,250,000 (No. of Bonds : CY 62500 of ` 100.00 - PY 62500 of ` 100.00 each) - Govt. of India 2027 - 8.26% Bonds 13,800,000 13,800,000 (No. of Bonds : CY 138000 of ` 100.00 each - PY 138000 of ` 100.00 each) - 8% GOI Savings(Taxable) Bonds(RBI) 9,950,000 9,950,000 (No. of Bonds : CY 9950 of ` 1000.00 each - PY 9950 of ` 1000 each) -

7.16% GOI 20/05/2023(RBI) 2,481,300 2,481,300 (No. of Bonds : 27000 of ` 100.00 each) - 6.13% GOI 2028(RBI) 505,500 505,500 (No. of Bonds : 6000 of ` 100.00 each)8% GOI Savings(Taxable) Bonds,2003(RBIChair) 800,000 - (No. of Bonds : 8000 of ` 100.00 each)

Total ………………………… 33,786,800 32,986,800 Out of Corpus Fund (Unquoted)Govt. of India - 8% Bonds 45,000,000 105,000,000 (No. of Bonds : CY 105000 of ` 1,000.00 each- PY 105000 of ` 1,000.00 each)Power Finance Corporation - 8.78% Bonds 30,000,000 30,000,000 (No. of NCD : CY 30 of ` 10,00,000.00 each- PY 30 of ` 10,00,000.00 each)

75,000,000 135,000,000 Total ………………………… 108,786,800 167,986,800

Note: 1 None of the turstees are interested party in any of the above investment.


2016`

As at March 2015

Àdvances recoverable in cashor in kind or for value to be received 14,765,973 2,314,542 Prepaid Expenses 4,283,388 4,527,605 Capital Advance 5,014,032 17,366,764 Loans and Advances to Staff 243,614 427,869 Deposits 1,224,410 1,009,181 Tax Deducted at source 16,251,978 10,654,437

Total ………………………… 41,783,395 36,300,397

Particulars As at March 2016

`

As at March 2015

Ìnterest Receivable 10,930,235 7,604,195 Interest Receivable FCRA 74,760 - Grant Receivables 1,095,000 1,350,626 Other Receivables 3,202,900 6,292,015

Total ………………………… 15,302,895 15,246,836


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'J'

CASH AND BANK BALANCES


2015`

As at March 2015

`

I) Cash on hand with Tushar Doshi (Assistant IV) 196,481 123,645

II) Balances with Banks :

1. Term Deposits with Banks 448,299,193 355,168,207

A) Out of Grant Fund 101,746,373 107,214,957

a) CANARA Term Deposit-MORD Grant 71,927,967 106,263,175

b) IDBI Term Deposit-Prof.S.Roy Memorial Award 50,000 100,000

c) Canara Bank Term Deposit-Prof.S.Roy Memorial Award 50,000 -

d) TS Rajan Endowment Term Deposit 30,000 30,000

e) Kuchibhotla Vasanthi Endowment Term Deposit 100,000 100,000

f) IRMAn’s in Distress Fund Term Deposit 617,499 438,388

g) PRM 83-85 Batch Fund Term Deposit 283,394 283,394

h) ICICI Bank JPM Fund 28,687,513 -

B) Out of Own Fund 330,792,643 232,786,650

a) IDBI Bank - 40,000,000

b) Central Bank of India 7,500,000 -

c) UCO Bank 4,900,000 98,700,000

d) Syndicate Bank - 7,500,000

e) Canara Bank 240,392,643 86,586,650

f) Andhra Bank 38,000,000 -

g) Andhra bank 40,000,000 -

C) Out of RBI Chair Fund 11,107,000 10,957,000

a)Syndicate Bank-TDR-RBI Chair - 857,000

b)UCO Bank -TDR-RBI Chair - 10,000,000

c) Canara Bank-TDR-RBI Chair 10,100,000 100,000

d)Central Bank of India-TDR-RBI Chair 1,007,000 -

D) Out of BOB Chair Fund 4,653,177 4,209,600

a) Bank of Baroda (BoB Chair Fund) 4,653,177 4,209,600

2. Balance with Saving Bank 35,162,978 49,045,039

a) ICICI Bank Account No. 008501012659 4,313,280 5,053,053

b) ICICI (FCR Account No. 008501016810 ) 7,523,526 4,434,606

c) IDBI-IRMA-MoRD-SB-A/c 036104000024532 157,788 12,236,027

d) State Bank of India POWER JYOTI A/c No.31310761441 171,602 148,020

e) ICICI Bank Payment Account No. 008501017187 4,576,291 194,140

f) Yes Bank Account No. 019394600000790 4,258,980 1,000,192

g) State Bank of India (IRMA Corpus A/c) Account No. 103448458687 1,396,252 1,343,036

h) IDBI-IRMA-CORPUS FUND-NEW-SB-A/c 0036104000139748 6,830,346 23,951,779

i) AXIS Bank Limited Account no. 038010100465977 5,934,913 684,186

Total ………………………… 483,658,652 404,336,891


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT

SCHEDULE 'K'

EXPENDITURE IN RESPECT OF PROPERTIES

Particulars 2015-16`

2014-15`

Rates & Taxes 195,852 195,852

Land Revenue Tax (Refer Note 2 of Sch. U II.) 442,450 279,024

Repairs & Maintenance 25,121,468 15,673,169

Computer Expenses 3,239,890 4,548,677

Insurance 157,018 127,375

Depreciation 2,446,400 2,554,330

Total ………………………… 31,603,078 23,378,428

SCHEDULE 'L'

SALARIES

SCHEDULE 'M'

SALARIES


2014-15`

Salaries, Allowances & Other Payments 79,299,058 83,031,374

Contribution to P.F. & Super Annuation Fund 11,960,077 13,018,768

Gratuity and Leave Encashment 19,283,911 22,476,411

Staff Welfare, Development and Recruitment Expenses 2,039,849 2,029,557

Total ………………………… 112,582,895 120,556,110


2015-16`

Admission Expenses 5,483,114 7,436,987

Library Periodicals 6,104,221 3,141,326

Convocation Expenses 353,969 283,861

PRM Expenditure 3,981,631 3,754,484

FPRM Expenditure 1,575,204 1,199,719

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Total ………………………… 17,498,139 15,816,377


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'N'

OTHER EXPENSES

SCHEDULE 'O

GRANT EXPENSES


2014-15`

Audit Fees 245,125 200,000

Printing & Stationery 1,018,713 1,107,386

Postage, Telegram, Telephone & Telex 690,668 1,010,765

Travelling Expenses 647,994 691,993

Vehicle Running Expenses 222,749 198,286

Internet Expenses 2,238,362 1,888,803

Electricity Charges 8,297,878 6,939,098

Remuneration to Internal Auditor 193,996 180,000

Legal & Professional Services 877,273 565,802

Service Tax Expenses 3,256,819 4,357,717

Amount written off Bad Debts 29,557 75,011

Miscellaneous Expenses 2,365,192 1,331,055

Project & MDP (General Expenses) 4,453,446 6,994,529

Total ………………………… 24,537,772 25,540,445

Particulars2015-16

` 2014-15

`

Grant Expenses out of FCRA Account

Salary & Stipend 285,400 1,892,939

Travel Expenses 778,216 2,439,382

Consulting Charges 3,554,279 4,979,774

Assets Discarded - 5,355,000

Depreciation on Asset From Grant Fund 849,754 1,587,611

Misc & Others 53,606 5,064,216

Other Grant Expenses

Salary & Stipend 26,905,073 15,330,355

Travel Expenses 2,703,597 1,375,801

Consulting Charges 597,593 4,739,502

Depreciation on Asset From Grant Fund 13,278,913 4,467,167

Misc & Others 5,493,659 2,212,242

Total ………………………… 54,500,090 49,443,990


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'P'

INCOME FROM INVESTMENT


2014-15`

Corpus & Reserve funds :

Other Interest 582,079 94,687

Interest on FDR with Schedule Banks 24,532,459 22,446,989

Interest on Bonds 7,180,667 11,034,000

Total ………………………… 32,295,205 33,575,676

Own Funds:

Interest On Savings / Time Deposits Account 5,745,340 2,869,616

Total ………………………… 38,040,545 36,445,292

SCHEDULE 'R'

OTHER INCOME

SCHEDULE 'Q'

TUTION AND OTHER FEE


2014-15`

Application Fee for Admission 3,421,600 3,640,210

Computer & Internet Fees 2,096,801 2,364,000

Tuition Fees 98,912,448 94,800,000

Library & TAU Charges 2,072,801 2,335,500

Management Traineeship Segment Fee - 3,950,000

Hostel Fee 4,145,601 4,683,000

Other Fees 1,399,450 527,918

Total ………………………… 112,048,701 112,300,628


2014-15`

Miscellaneous Receipts 1,509,231 630,186

Fees for Management Development Programmes 15,537,227 14,568,859

Amount received for Research Projects 15,011,238 16,305,537

EDTC Lodging & Boarding Charges (Net) 2,620,254 2,668,681

Profit on Sales of Assets 6,000 126,864

Conference Income 768,337 -

Total ………………………… 35,452,287 34,300,127


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'S'

LICENSE FEE (STAFF QUARTER)

SCHEDULE 'T'

GRANT INCOME


2014-15`

Staff Quarter License Fee 1,249,756 1,026,741

Room rent (others) 392,840 111,940

Total ………………………… 1,642,596 1,138,681


2014-15`

Grant Received During Year in Other Account 17,936,036 10,776,483

Grant Received During Year in FCRA Account 48,724,305 13,953,907

Interest earned under FCRA Account 723,830 354,210

Unutilized Grant SDC Login 3,665,434 -

Interest Earned on Grant Fund 13,544,260 21,322,277

Add: Grant for Capital Assets recognised to the extent of Depreciation (B) 14,128,667 4,467,167

Add: Capital Assets discared from Capital Grant (Deffered) (B) - 5,355,000

Less: Utilised towards Capital Grant (Deferred) (65,123,075) (10,623,058)

Add /(Less): Unutilised Grant brought/(Carry) forward to balance sheet 24,566,067 3,838,004

Total ………………………… 58,165,524 49,443,990


INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT, ANANDSCHEDULE 'U'

I. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

1. Basis of AccountingThe accounts are prepared on historical cost basis and based on accrual method of accounting, unless otherwise stated.

2. Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements requires estimates and assumptions to be made that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities on date of the financial statements and the reported amount of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Difference between the actual result and estimates are recognised in the period in which the results are known/materialized.

3. Revenue Recognitiona) Revenue (income) is recognized when no significant uncertainty as to determination or realization exists.b) In respect of Research Projects

a) Project not completed: Income is recognized proportionate to the expenditure incurred during year. b) Project Completed: In the year of the completion of project balance income is recognized as revenue.. c) In respect of Grants: Income is recognized upto the expenditure incurred during the financial yearand

unspent amount is shown under ‘liabilities’

4. Investments

Investments are shown at cost of acquisition.

5. Fixed Assets

Fixed assets are stated at cost of acquisition or construction, as reduced by accumulated depreciation.

6. Depreciation

Depreciation has been calculated at written down value basis at the ratesprescribed under the Income Tax Act, 1961. In case of assets acquired during year and used for less than 182 days are depreciated at 50% of the rate prescribed under Income Tax Act, as against depreciation at full rate for assets acquired for more than 182 days. Depreciation on assets acquired out of Grants is adjusted againstrespective Grants.

7. Retirement Benefits :

The liabilities towards gratuity and leave encashment are determined based on actuarial valuation done by an independent actuary.

II. NOTES ON ACCOUNTS FORMING PART OF ACCOUNTS

1. Contingent liability not provided for: -

Particulars31-03-2016Amount `

31-03-2015Amount `

a. Claims against Institute lodged by the workers of the contractors are under adjudication at The Supreme Court and Labour Court, Anand and Industrial Tribunal, Ahmedabad respectively

Unascertainable Unascertainable

b. Loss on prematurity of Investment of Employee Provident Fund Trust and demurrage charges on delay deposits of funds to EPFO. The mat-ter is under adjudication and penalties expected to bewaived off.

2,97,76,043 Unascertainable

2. Land revenue tax:

` 51,97,924/- paid during the FY 2015-16 including current year’s expense ` 4,42,450/-. There is no outstanding liability as on March 31, 2016 towards land revenue tax.

3. Retirement Benefits :

The Institute provides for retirement benefits i.e., Gratuity and Leave Encashment based on actuarial valuation done by an independent actuary.

In case of Gratuity, IRMA has created a Trust, which has taken a Group Gratuity Insurance Policy with the Life Insurance Corporation of India, for future payment of gratuity to its employees.


The details of Defined Benefit Obligation and Plan Assets are as under: -(Amount in `)

Particulars Gratuity Leave EncashmentI. Expenses recognized in Income and Expenditure Account for the year

2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15` ` ` `

Current service cost 3,155,708 2,729,423 3,253,790 4,268,594Interest Cost 3,121,165 3,109,960 2,631,416 2,333,303Expected return on plan assets (1,621,924) (1,720,447) - -Net Actuarial Losses (Gains) 3,759,895 6,820,224 6,963,577 7,049,102Past Service Liabilities - - - -Total Expenses 8,414,844 10,939,160 12,848,783 13,650,999

III. Reconciliation of opening and closing balances of changes in present value of the defined benefit obligationOpening defined benefit obligation 42,432,404 37,617,799 36,207,006 28,245,772Service cost 3,155,708 2,729,423 3,253,790 4,268,594Interest cost 3,121,165 3,109,960 2,631,416 2,333,303Actuarial Losses (gain) 3,486,816 6,704,219 6,963,577 7,049,102.00Past Service Cost - - - -Benefits paid (7,012,216) (7,728,997) (6,366,852) (5,689,765)Closing defined benefit obligation 45,183,877 42,432,404 42,688,937 36,207,006

III. Reconciliation of opening and closing balances of changes in fair value of plan assetsOpening fair value of plan assets 21,169,247 21,215,307 - -Expected return on plan assets 1,621,924 1,720,447 - -Actuarial gains and (losses) (273,079) (116,005) - -Contributions by employer 8,000,000 6,601,495 - -Benefits paid (7,012,216) (7,728,997) - -Closing balance of fair value of plan assets 23,505,876 21,692,247 0 0

IV. Net Liability recognized in the Balance SheetDefined Benefit Obligation 45,183,877 42,432,404 42,688,937 36,207,006Fair Value of plan assets 24,028,876 21,692,247 - -Present Value of unfunded obligation recognized as liability

21,155,001 20,740,157 42,688,937 36,207,006

V. Experience AdjustmentsDefined Benefit Obligation 45,183,877 42,432,404 39,381,112 36,207,006Plan Assets 24,028,876 21,692,247 - -Surplus(Deficit) (21,155,001) (20,740,157) (39,381,112) (36,207,006)Experience Adjustments on plan liabilities 2,966,502 3,913,092 2,876,221 4,322,348Actuarial loss/(gain) due to changes in financial assumption - - - 2,726,754Actuarial loss/(gain) due to changes in demographic assumption

520,314 2,791,127 779,531 -

Experience Adjustments on plan assets 273,079 116,005 - -Net Actuarial loss/(gain) for the year 3,759,895 6,820,224 3,655,752 7,049,102

2015-16 2016-17

I. Expenses recognized in Income and Expenditure Account for the year 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15Policy of InsuranceVIII. Actuarial AssumptionsDiscount Rate 7.80% 7.80%Expected rate of return on plan assets 7.80% 9.00%Expected rate of salary increase 6.00% 6.00%

MortalityIndian Assured Lives Mortality (2006-08) Ult.

Indian Assured Lives Mortality (2006-08) Ult.

Withdrawal Rates10% at younger ages reducing to 2% at older ages

5% at younger ages reducing to 1% at older ages

Retirement Age 60/62/65 Years 60/62/65 Years

Actuarial Valuation MethodProjected Unit Credit Method

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5. Statement of Grant balance used for acquisition of fixed assets

(Amount in `)

S. No.

Name of the GrantOp. Bal. As on April 1,

2015

Fixed Assets

Acquisition

Adjusted / Written

offDepreciation

Closing Balance

March 31, 2016

A Non FCRA Capital Expense Grants

1 National Dairy Development Board 4,456,097 - - 253,402 4,202,695

2Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

15,440,902 - - 799,225 14,641,677

3 FORD Foundation 73,676 - - 7,664 66,012

4Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation

599,332 - - 59,933 539,399

6Department of Science and Technology

16,712 - - 10,027 6,685

7 Ministry of Rural Development 138,814,046 51,047,731 - 12,132,012 177,729,765

8 Sir Dorabji TATA Trust (SRI) - 55,500 - 16,650 38,850

B FCRA Capital Expense Grants

1From International Development Research Centre

1,574,064 29,250 1 834,754 768,559

2 JP Morgan - 50,000 15,000 35,000

Total 160,974,829 51,182,481 1 14,128,667 198,028,642

6. For the financial year 2013-14 and 2014-15, amount for earned leaveencashment ̀ 12,23,379/- and Gratuity of ̀ 6,04,645/- of those employees who were paid out of MoRD Grant has been charged to MoRD Grant and same was routed through Income & Expenditure account. For the financial year 2015-16 gratuity ` 6,59,294/- and EL encashment ` 13,20,422 of those employee who were paid out of MoRD grant has been reduced from expenses of the current year and charged to Grant Expenses.

7. Interest earned on FCRA Grant fund amounting to ` 23,37,568/- were transferred to Income & Expenditure accounttill March 2015. From the current financial year, it isshown as accumulated FCRA Interest in the FCRA books of accounts.

8. Provision for amount payable for teaching segment under Faculty Incentive Scheme for the year 2015-16 has been made for ` 30 lacs (@ ` 2000 per credit hour, which is subject to approval by the Board.

9. As decided by the IRMA Board of Governors, 10% of interest earned on investment of Trust and Corpus Fund during FY 2015-16 has been transferred to Reserve Fund (IRMA Board)

10. Previous year figures have been regrouped wherever necessary.

For Haribhakti & Co. LLP For Institute of Rural Management, Anand Chartered AccountantsFRN No. 103523W

Atul Gala Chairman Director Chief Finance Officer Partner Membership No. 048650

Place: Anand Place: AnandDate: August 05, 2016 Date: August 05, 2016

Members of IRMA Society

• Banaskantha District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union Limited, Palanpur

• Gramin Vikas Trust, Noida

• Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Limited, Anand

• Indian Farmers Fertilizer Co-operative Limited, New Delhi

• Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Limited, Anand

• Karnataka Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Limited, Bangalore

• Mehsana District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Limited, Mehsana

• Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Private Limited, New Delhi

• National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mumbai

• National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India Limited, Anand

• National Cooperative Development Corporation, New Delhi

• Sabarkantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Limited, Himmatnagar

• Sahavikasa: Cooperative Development Foundation, Hyderabad

• Seva Mandir, Udaipur

• Tamilnadu Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Limited, Chennai

Institute of Rural Management AnandPHONES: (02692) 260246, 260181, 260186, 260391, 262602, 260616, 262768

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