Sunday, February 6 2005 19:30 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Six leading IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management) have decided to start additional courses and increase the intake in many existing ones from the coming academic year following a directive from the Government to broadbase their activities in the light of the changing economy.

Some of the new courses are executive MBA at IIM- Ahmedabad, which will have 50 seats, one-year Global Managers' Programme with 30 seats, 80-seat programme on Leading and Managing with a one-year duration, an official statement said today (Feb 6, 2005).

IIM-Calcutta will have a one-year programme for Development of Entrepreneurs and Managers-turned Entrepreneurs with 300 seats, while the Noida campus of IIM-Lucknow will start a 50-seat certificate programme in Management for Defence officers with a six-month duration and IIM-Kozhikode will begin executive MBA through distant education module with 100 seats.

Besides, IIM-Ahmedabad will increase capacity in existing Fellow Programme in Management and Fellow Development Programme to 20 and 40 seats against the present 15 and 30 seats, respectively, the statement said.

IIM-Bangalore will raise the seats in Post Graduate Programme in Management and Post Graduate Programme in Software Enterprise Management to 260 and 150 against the existing 180 and 120.

Post Graduate Programme in IIM-Lucknow will have 260 seats against 240 at present and Post Graduate Programme in Agro-Business Management in the same institute will admit 60 students against the existing 30, the statement added.