39th IIM-A convocation held

The thirty ninth annual convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, was held here on Saturday evening.

170 students of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management, six students of the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), and 30 students of the PGP in Agri-Business Management graduated from the IIM-A at the ceremony. The ceremony was attended by Member of Parliament and former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan and N R Narayana Murthy chief mentor Infosys Technologies.

Six students received the title of `Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad', on Saturday at the convocation. After a two-year course, students of the programme carry out an independent research supervised by a Thesis Advisory Committee.

The thesis submitted by the student is defended before a Thesis Examination Committee. The students who received the title of Fellow are Vivek Gupta, Namit Mehta, Peeyush Mehta, Deepa Menon, C Prabhu and Satyendra Kumar.

In addition, 170 students also received the Post Graduate Diploma in Management. Three students - Mukundan D, K N Ramganesh and D V Ravi Shankar received the institute's gold medal for Scholastic performance.

Under the Post Graduate Programme in Agri-Business Management (PGP-ABM), 30 students received the Post Graduate Diploma in Agri-Business Management at the convocation. Dhruba Jyoti Banerjee received the institute's gold medal for scholastic performance in the course, which is equivalent to a MBA.

Among the students that received the title of Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Vivek Gupta completed a thesis on `Determination of Incidence and Modes of Alliances - A study of Indian Information Industry'.

Namit Mehta completed a thesis on `Collaborations in Supply Chain: Value of Information Sharing'. Peeyush Mehta completed his thesis on `Production Planning and Scheduling in Multi-Stage Batch Production Environment'. Deepa Menon completed a thesis on `Managing Urban Air Quality in India: Models, Policy Instruments, and Institutions'.

C Prabhu studied the `Managing Contract Farming in Agro Industry' and Satyendra Kumar did a thesis on `Decision Models for Single Period and Lateral Stock - Transfer Policies in Distribution Systems.'