IIMK to start Maritime Management course soon

KOCHI: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) will soon start a Maritime Management course, as Kozhikode has historically been a seafaring and a coastal city.

With Debashis Chatterjee resuming charge as director of IIMK, there are plans to enhance the quality and volume of executive education, elevate it and deliver it as a different model. “We also plan to enhance international linkages, attract highly talented faculty of international standing and administrative colleagues to the institute. We will also work closely with the Kerala government towards strengthening its governance efficiency as well as effectiveness and also its various development as well as welfare programmes,” he said.

They also plan to work closely with the small and medium enterprises in the state towards turning them around and their reengineering.

This is Chatterjee’s second term at IIMK. The institute did not have a full time director for nearly four years after Chatterjee left after completing his term from 2009 to 2014. IIMK is the first institute to appoint its own director autonomously after the President gave concurrence to the Indian Institute of Management Bill, 2017 on December 31.

During his last tenure, he transformed the face of IIM Kozhikode to an institution of national impact and global reckoning. Chatterjee created history by increasing the enrolment of women up to 54% in the flagship post graduate program. This was a game-changing policy of enhancing the gender diversity of the IIM classroom.