Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Admission Notice 2012

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Institute of Rural Management Anand
(31 years of excellence in rural management)
Email admis@irma.ac.in, Website https://www.irma.ac.in

 

Admission notice

Post Graduate programme in Rural Management (PRM 2012-14)

Fellow programme in Rural Management (FPRM 2012)

Postgraduate Programme in Rural Management (PRM): Many good stand-alone programmes of business management and development are available in India today. IRMA’s PRM integrates the two streams and equips talented men and women with both development perspectives and business acumen. IRMA recognizes that institutions working for rural development operate in a complex environment, in which there is a far greater need for professional management. IRMA trains talented men and women through a well-structured two-year Postgraduate Programme in Rural Management, in order to undertake challenging responsibilities in development and producers’ organizations with the right ethical values. IRMA has been working closely with its client organizations to integrate their emerging needs into its academic programme by periodically revising the curricula. The present PRM design is a reflection of this growing partnership. PRM is a two-year fully residential programme leading to a Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDRM). PGDRM is recognised as equivalent to Master’s degree by the AIU and is approved by the AICTE

Placement: The campus placement programme for each graduating batch ensures that all the students secure meaningful and challenging career opportunities in tune with IRMA’s mission. Our PRM graduates are highly valued by cooperatives, NGOs, government development agencies, and national and international donors engaged in promoting rural development. The distinguishing feature of all these bodies is their willingness and ability to make effective use of young and well-trained professional managers. The five-day campus recruitment programme organised by the campus placement office is held in the month of February during the second year of PRM. The jobs offered to IRMA graduates vary widely. The job offers are in areas such as planning and information systems, production management, marketing, finance, accounts, human resource development, rural development, and natural resource management. IRMA seeks to ensure that its graduates are offered competitive remuneration. IRMA has enlisted over 650 organisations that are designated for the purpose of placement of its graduates. The list is ever increasing, and attempts are made every year to enlist more organisations that can offer challenging careers to IRMA students. Consistent with its objectives, IRMA’s placement support is confined to placing students with the designated organisations only. It may be noted that IRMA’s placement facility is not open to sponsored candidates. IRMA graduates have succeeded not only in choosing meaningful jobs but have also received decent salaries with 100 per cent placement

Programme cost: Costs for students are kept low through cross-subsidisation, with the aim of helping them serve the needs of the challenging rural sector more effectively. The total programme cost over the period of two years (inclusive of tuition fee and service charges) is estimated to be about Rs 4 lakh. IRMA has a cooperative mess, which is governed and managed by students. Students also frame and implement the rules and regulations of the mess. They share the cost of boarding equally

Scholarships, Educational Loans and Fee Exemption: IRMA has several prestigious scholarships for deserving students, which are mentioned below

IRMA Fellowship: IRMA revised the provisions of IRMA Fellowship since 2008-10 batch. Only those students who get a monthly gross salary that is less than the decided minimum gross salary will be eligible to receive the IRMA Fellowship (provided they join the organizations that are eligible for the purpose of the fellowship). The amount of the IRMA Fellowship to an eligible student will be equal to the difference between the actual amount of his/her gross salary and the decided minimum gross salary. The recipient of IRMA fellowship may get a maximum of Rs 3 lakhs during the course of 3 years

Scholarships from Sir Ratan Tata Trust: Sir Ratan Tata Trust offers about five scholarships every year to second-year students based on merit. The scholarship covers a part of the fees during the second year, subject to a ceiling of Rs 50,000/-. The number and amount of the scholarship are approved by the trust on a year-to-year basis

Scholarships for SC/ST candidates: More than 15 scholarships covering the entire costs of education of SC/ST candidates are available at IRMA. The scholarship covers fees, non-refundable charges, lodging and boarding expenses, and cost of books, stationery, and personal computer (http://www.socialjustice.nic.in).

Educational Loans: Educational loans are available from various banks. The State Bank of India provides educational loans at a lower interest rate and without any collateral to candidates enrolling at IRMA

Fee exemption: IRMA firmly believes that no one should be deprived of education for lack of financial resources. Hence IRMA is open for providing financial assistance to meet the PRM tuition fees of extremely poor candidates

Admission to PRM: For the 32nd Postgraduate Programme in Rural Management, commencing on June 06, 2011, IRMA has adopted the following criteria and procedures for the admission of students

Eligibility: A graduate from any discipline, with a minimum of 15 years (10+2+3) of education, having 50% (45% for SC/ST/PwD) aggregate marks at the graduation level can apply for admission. The percentage of aggregate marks is to be calculated as per the practice followed by the concerned university or institution. Those who are in the final year and who expect to complete all the requirements of graduation before June 06, 2011 can also apply. Only Indian nationals are eligible to apply for PRM. There is no management quota for admission to PRM at IRMA. IRMA encourages the employees of its designated organisations to apply with sponsorship from their employers. IRMA encourages applications from candidates with diverse academic backgrounds. The number of applications received for PRM 2010–12 was about 15000

Examination Fee: There is a common application form for PRM and FPRM programmes. An applicant may apply for two programmes by using one application form.

Examination Fees for Applying in Hardcopy
No. of Programme General & OBC SC/ST/PwD*
One Programme Rs. 1050- Rs. 550/-
Two Programmes Rs. 1550/- Rs. 800/-
'PwD- persons with disability

How to apply: An applicant can opt for one of the following options; apply online and pay through payment gateway; make payment at any IMS learning centre, after getting IMS receipt, apply through IRMA website by using IMS receipt number; take a print out of SBI challan available on IRMA website in the admission link. Make payment at any branch of SBI by using the challan. SBI would then issue a unique ID number. Use this unique ID number and apply online through IRMA website; printed application material (prospectus, application forms, etc.) may be obtained from admissions office, IRMA, Anand-388001 on payment of full fees. All the payments to IRMA should be made in the form of a demand draft favouring IRMA and it should be payable at Anand

No refund will be made after the payment is made

Prospectus and sample question papers will be sent to the candidates after their application is received at IRMA. It is compulsory for all applicants to send a hard copy of application form at admissions office, IRMA, Anand-388001, Gujarat. Those applicants are required to attach IMS Receipt or SBI Challan respectively with application form. Candidates should retain a copy of the completed application form for their reference. The completed applications should reach to IRMA on or before September 30, 2011. Postal delay is not the responsibility of IRMA. All correspondence related to admission should be addressed to Admissions office, Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) Anand-388001, Gujarat

Important Instructions for filling in online application: Register at https://www.irma.ac.in using Applicant’s Registration Service in admissions link directly. Provide relevant information as required (email ID is necessary for registration). Please ensure you do not apply separately for each programme. There are three ways for submitting your online application i.e. apply online and pay through payment gateway, pay to any IMS learning centre and apply online, pay to any branch of SBI and apply online

In either case you have to enter data required for the application form. Please ensure you opt for any of these three options

Selection process: All eligible candidates, including sponsored candidates, are required to appear for a written test conducted by IRMA. The written test (200 marks), comprises four sections; analytical reasoning (50 marks), quantitative ability (50 marks), English comprehension (40 marks), and issues of social concern (60 marks)

The test will be conducted on November 13, 2011, Sunday at 27 centres across India

Anand, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Delhi, Guwahati, Jaipur, Kochi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Raipur, Rajkot, Pantnagar, Patna, Pune, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur

Based on the performance in the written test candidates will be selected to attend a personal interview and a group discussion, to be conducted at IRMA between January 31 to February 12, 2011. There is a sectional cut-off of marks, in order to judge the candidate’s performance across the sections.

(IRMA does not accept any other test-score; IRMA reserves the right to change or cancel any test centre at its discretion; the entrance test is common for all the academic programmes of IRMA, Xavir Institute of Management, Bhuvneshwar (XIMB) also uses IRMA’s test score for its rural management programme)

The final selection of candidates will be done on the basis of the overall performance in the written test, PI, and GD. The marks obtained in PI and GD will be normalised across the evaluating panels. The marks obtained in the written test and the normalised marks obtained in PI and GD will be reduced to the equivalent marks of 50, 40, and 10, respectively. An overall merit list will be prepared based on the total marks obtained out of these 100 marks. Such a listing will be prepared separately for the different categories of applicants, and the required number of candidates will be selected from the different categories according to their order of merit. IRMA has positive discrimination policies for admissions to disadvantaged sections of the society

The total number of seats available for PRM 2011–13 is 120. The programme will begin on June 06, 2011. All the selected candidates will be required to report to IRMA by this date. Candidates who did not have a mathematics paper as part of their undergraduate degree requirements will have to report on May 30, 2011 for remedial classes in mathematics

Academic Calendar for PRM 2012–14

Last date for receipt of completed applications: 30th September, 2011

Written test: November 13, 2011 (9.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.)

The test score received on this entrance examination is used for the PRM and FPRM programme of IRMA and also for the rural management programme of the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur and KIIT School of Rural Management, Bhubaneswar.