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Inauguration of PGDMS campus today

By Our Staff Correspondent

TUMKUR MARCH 5. The Governor, T.N.Chaturvedi, will inaugurate the new campus of the Postgraduate Department of Management Studies (PGDMS) of Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), here on Thursday.

The campus, which is located near the Bangalore-Pune Highway, came up in a record one year at a cost of Rs.1.80 crore.

Started in 1998, the PGDMS has rolled out four batches of 60 MBA students each of the Visvesvaraya Technological University.

The results are good, and the students well placed. The PGDMS is approved by the All-India Council for Technical Education.

The two-year MBA programme has four semesters. Apart from the regular syllabus, students are given a chance to study marketing, finance, systems, and human resources as optional subjects.

They can also pursue two of the four additional courses — cost management and control, refining influence styles, cyber marketing, and management of financial institutions.

Emphasis is laid on continuous interaction with industry, personality development, and making students self-reliant.

In tune with its vision "to develop young minds in a learning environment of high academic ambience, by synergising spiritual values and managerial competence", yoga has been made part of the programme.

There are four main classrooms with 90 seats. Besides, there are six small classrooms, a library, and a computer centre.

After moving into the new campus, the seat intake will rise to 90.

The SIT offers offering undergraduate programmes in 11 engineering subjects, postgraduate programmes in four disciplines, and doctoral programmes in three subjects.

The Director of PGDMS, Malathi Bolar, said executive development programmes for managers in the emerging areas of management would be started.

The PGDMS was also poised to start a research programme on Indian managerial experiences.

Both the programmes would, she hoped, make the PGDMS a pioneering centre for management practices in the country.

She said the PGDMS was the best among institutes in its category.

An executive development centre would be added to the campus, she said.

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