IIM Calcutta Executive MBA students to return to campus

Students of the one-year Postgraduate Program for Executives (PGPEx) programme at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta are to return to campus in small batches.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta's students of the one-year Postgraduate Program for Executives (PGPEx) programme are expected to return to campus in small batches. IIM Calcutta confirmed the report through an official statement on Tuesday, i.e. September 9, 2020. There are a total of 62 students in this batch of the executive MBA programme who have been attending online classes for the past four months.

Educational institutes all across the country are physically shut since the month of March in view of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by the nationwide lockdown imposed in order to contain the virus. However, according to the latest Unlock 4.0 guideline, only research (PhD) scholars and postgraduate students of technical and professions programmes who need access to laboratories and experiments are permitted to visit their campuses.

Four months ago, IIM Calcutta inducted the PGPEx programme. According to the official statement, the administration plans to follow all central and state government advisories and guidelines. “Students will be permitted to arrive back in small batches and be quarantined in campus hostels while continuing their classes online. Mandatory protocols will be followed in the campus entry process that includes COVID-19 testing, quarantine measures, and other campus protocols for their and all other campus residents’ safety,” said the statement.

IIM Ahmedabad also made around 140 students of one-year post graduate programme in management for executives (PGPX) come back to campus recently. Students returned to stay on campus due to accommodation and internet connectivity issues. But on September 4, a student from the batch was tested COVID-19 positive. Following the guidelines issued by the government, the institute allowed students to return “in groups of a-few-a-day to space out the arrivals”.

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