The National Institute of Hotel Management located near Gandhinagar has won accolades in the hospitality sector, with the institute being ranked among the top 10 hotel management institutes across the country, as well as for achieving cent per cent placement target over last three consecutive years.
Bolstered by its successful run, the institute that offers three-year BSc degree course in Hospitality and Hotel Administration at present, has decided to introduce an 18-month post-graduate diploma, diploma and short-term certificate courses in the hospitality sector from this year.
NIHM principal Salil Chatterjee told mediapersons here on Wednesday that in 2004-05, all 97 outgoing students got jobs in chain hotels/ restaurants, private airlines and call centres after successfully completing the degree course at the institute, with monthly stipend ranging between Rs 4,500 to Rs 18,000.
Similarly in 2005-06, all 111 outgoing degree-holders got employment in hospitality and aviation sector with average monthly stipend of Rs 10,700 each.
Chatterjee said campus interview for 105 students who passed out from the institute in 2006-07 had been held, and all of them had received placement orders from prominent hotels like Oberoi, Taj and Le Meridien ,and also private airliners such as Jet Airways.
The maximum monthly stipend that Jet Airways offered to students who graduated in cabin crew discipline was Rs 27,000.
Asked, he said that students from Gujarat constituted a meagre 5 per cent of the total intake capacity of 150 every year at the institute.
Besides the vegetarian and non-vegetarian taboo, most of the Gujarati boys/girls seeking admission fail in the All-India entrance test due to lack of English language proficiency. The lack of awareness about hospitality course among parents is also one of the main reasons for Gujarati youths not joining the institute, he said.
Chatterjee said the institute figured in the top 10 hotel management institutes across the country both in private and government-run institutes on different parameters like competence of faculty, infrastructure and facilities, pedagogic systems and placements. Delhi-based Oberoi Centre tops the list followed by other such institutes in Mumbai, Manipal, Delhi, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Calcutta.
Meanwhile, the IHM authorities are apprehensive of a move reportedly initiated by the Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority to reduce the institute’s premises by 40 feet, as the GUDA proposes to lay a service road along the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway.
“If reduced, the front elevation of our institute will get spoiled. We’ll inform the Union Tourism Ministry under which the IHM functions. The Institute has been built on four acres of land allotted by the Government, and has been a pioneer centre for hospitality education across the nation possessing good infrastructure, spacious classrooms fully equipped with state-of-the-art teaching aids, laboratories, a mock bar and trained faculty,” he added.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Bolstered by its successful run, the institute that offers three-year BSc degree course in Hospitality and Hotel Administration at present, has decided to introduce an 18-month post-graduate diploma, diploma and short-term certificate courses in the hospitality sector from this year.
NIHM principal Salil Chatterjee told mediapersons here on Wednesday that in 2004-05, all 97 outgoing students got jobs in chain hotels/ restaurants, private airlines and call centres after successfully completing the degree course at the institute, with monthly stipend ranging between Rs 4,500 to Rs 18,000.
Similarly in 2005-06, all 111 outgoing degree-holders got employment in hospitality and aviation sector with average monthly stipend of Rs 10,700 each.
Chatterjee said campus interview for 105 students who passed out from the institute in 2006-07 had been held, and all of them had received placement orders from prominent hotels like Oberoi, Taj and Le Meridien ,and also private airliners such as Jet Airways.
The maximum monthly stipend that Jet Airways offered to students who graduated in cabin crew discipline was Rs 27,000.
Asked, he said that students from Gujarat constituted a meagre 5 per cent of the total intake capacity of 150 every year at the institute.
Besides the vegetarian and non-vegetarian taboo, most of the Gujarati boys/girls seeking admission fail in the All-India entrance test due to lack of English language proficiency. The lack of awareness about hospitality course among parents is also one of the main reasons for Gujarati youths not joining the institute, he said.
Chatterjee said the institute figured in the top 10 hotel management institutes across the country both in private and government-run institutes on different parameters like competence of faculty, infrastructure and facilities, pedagogic systems and placements. Delhi-based Oberoi Centre tops the list followed by other such institutes in Mumbai, Manipal, Delhi, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Calcutta.
Meanwhile, the IHM authorities are apprehensive of a move reportedly initiated by the Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority to reduce the institute’s premises by 40 feet, as the GUDA proposes to lay a service road along the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway.
“If reduced, the front elevation of our institute will get spoiled. We’ll inform the Union Tourism Ministry under which the IHM functions. The Institute has been built on four acres of land allotted by the Government, and has been a pioneer centre for hospitality education across the nation possessing good infrastructure, spacious classrooms fully equipped with state-of-the-art teaching aids, laboratories, a mock bar and trained faculty,” he added.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com