Indian Institute of Management Calcutta is not only a gateway to a dream job, is also a place to acquire and hone skills before you leave for own careers.
The 2010-2012 batch at Joka B-school is an eclectic mix – including a doctor, an educationist, photographer and botanist-turned-social entrepreneur.
For Dr. Aswini Rakhame, IIMC is a step towards achieving her dream – creating a chain of hospitals. The 23-year-old MBBS was admitted to a public hospital where she was a management degree would give her an advantage in the realization of her dream.
“I do something like Apollo, but I need to acquire some management skills,” said Rakhame.
Pooja Misra has seven years experience working, four in the US. But a visit to her village in Rai Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, where she saw the gap between her and those she had left behind, changed the course of her life.
Misra create a university that offers degrees in Arts, with its savings in the U.S. season.
“I cannot fully participate in school without a solid foundation in business education,” said Misra, whose father is now caring for the daily running of the university.
Arindam Biswas, an amateur photographer, hopes his time in the Joka B-school endowed with the necessary skills to use the time to help him take the picture of “semi-professional.”
The IIT Kanpur alumnus chanced upon photography during his tenure at Morgan and Stanley in Mumbai, where he joined the club of Mumbai shooting weekend. At IIMC, he is a member of the Lakeside Lens Lovers group and has the goal of an exhibition of his photographs in Calcutta and Mumbai soon.
“I will benefit from time management strategies I learn from here and also be able to pick the contacts that can help me show the host,” said the city boy.
For botanist-turned-social entrepreneur David Lumin Touthang, IIMC is a stopover before he embarks on his quest for rural development. The 27-year-old from Manipur want to start a rural development organization in his native state and is in Joka to learn the tricks of running a group.
“I will study what I need and even the intention of working in an established organisation for a while to learn how it works,” said Touthang, who taught at a government school for more than a year before going to the Tata Institute of Sciences Social for a course of social entrepreneurship.
