ALL ready to “advance” into the corporate world, with power suits replacing uniforms, defence personnel were felicitated at a convocation ceremony at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Friday.
The defence personnel had joined the institute’s six-months’ certificate course in Business Management to prepare themselves for corporate services. More than 90 per cent of the candidates are already placed and will be serving 14 companies that came in to recruit them.
The candidates, 60 in number, with 36 Armymen, and 12 each from Indian Air Force and Indian Navy, had enrolled themselves for the course last October.
Many of these candidates have already retired from the service and others on the verge of retirement. A number of Short Service Commission officers had also participated in the programme. The candidates were conferred certificates by the Dean of the institute Jayant Varma in the presence of Harvant Krishna, Director General under the Ministry of Defence.
IIM-A designed the course with special guidance from the Directorate General of Resettlement, Ministry of Defence, with the programme’s main objective being to help officers rehabilitate after retirement. “We had a specially formulated course that was divided in three terms of eight weeks each, with two terms giving ideas on basics of management and last being elective,’’ explains Sailesh Gandhi, IIM-A faculty and co-ordinator.
Some of the candidates who had joined the course before retirement will, however, be retired by May end, after which they will be prepared to serve the company they joined. “More than 90 per cent candidates have taken up job. The rest chose not to take up job too soon but will be doing so eventually,’’ Gandhi said.
Companies like TCS, Adani, Aditya Birla, ICICI, DLF had come to recruit these personnels at the campus placement, with the maximum salary going as high as 30-35 lakh and the minimum being 10-12 lakh per annum. “The salary varies much because we had officers from all ranks for one course. There were Short Commission Officers to Major Generals taking up the course, so recruiters paid them according to their rank,’’ Gandhi added.
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The defence personnel had joined the institute’s six-months’ certificate course in Business Management to prepare themselves for corporate services. More than 90 per cent of the candidates are already placed and will be serving 14 companies that came in to recruit them.
The candidates, 60 in number, with 36 Armymen, and 12 each from Indian Air Force and Indian Navy, had enrolled themselves for the course last October.
Many of these candidates have already retired from the service and others on the verge of retirement. A number of Short Service Commission officers had also participated in the programme. The candidates were conferred certificates by the Dean of the institute Jayant Varma in the presence of Harvant Krishna, Director General under the Ministry of Defence.
IIM-A designed the course with special guidance from the Directorate General of Resettlement, Ministry of Defence, with the programme’s main objective being to help officers rehabilitate after retirement. “We had a specially formulated course that was divided in three terms of eight weeks each, with two terms giving ideas on basics of management and last being elective,’’ explains Sailesh Gandhi, IIM-A faculty and co-ordinator.
Some of the candidates who had joined the course before retirement will, however, be retired by May end, after which they will be prepared to serve the company they joined. “More than 90 per cent candidates have taken up job. The rest chose not to take up job too soon but will be doing so eventually,’’ Gandhi said.
Companies like TCS, Adani, Aditya Birla, ICICI, DLF had come to recruit these personnels at the campus placement, with the maximum salary going as high as 30-35 lakh and the minimum being 10-12 lakh per annum. “The salary varies much because we had officers from all ranks for one course. There were Short Commission Officers to Major Generals taking up the course, so recruiters paid them according to their rank,’’ Gandhi added.
Courtesy : Express india