Indian Institute of Forest Management Bhopal Answered Questions

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You do get to study subjects that will help you with basic knowledge of Forests, which is asked in IFS exam. Apart from that some of our faculties themselves are from IFS cadre and can guide you in the right direction. Being a management course this will help you in dealing with day-to-day situations if you do get selected in IFS. These are the only indirect benefit you get from IIFM in your quest to be an IFS. No direct benefit in terms of quota or visibility.

IIFM holds a unique culture in itself. It provides one of the best experience one can have. With a wide range of activities, IIFM polishes the students and make them ready for any extremely rigorous work environment. Talking about the specially designed curriculum for the 6 terms, a student get to learn variety of subjects along with their practical implementation on field. Field works, Field visits, and Internships are some of the best experience as a student at IIFM. Learning with a mix of managerial experience, being a part of different clubs and committee's one is a part of several events held at IIFM and get acquainted with leadership skills.

IIFM itself undertakes various consulting assignment handled by faculty members in a broad spectrum of sectors such as Ecological studies (in natural resource extraction areas), Environmental-Economic studies (Eco-services valuation & Natural Resource Accounting), Socio-economic studies (Developmental plans, programmes and projects), Evaluation of schemes and programmers (both Government and International Agencies), various functional (HR, Finance, Projects, Marketing) and cross-functional areas (Sustainable Resource Management and Certification). To know more about consulting activities or to offer consultancy assignments to IIFM, please write to
Prof. B. K. Upadhyay
Chairperson - Consultancy
Email:bkupadhyay@iifm.ac.in.

Hello Admit
A Bachelor's degree with at least 50 percent marks and Masters degree (minimum two years prescribed duration after 10+2+3 years of formal education) in relevant discipline (relevancy has to be decided by the IIFM) with minimum 55% marks (absolute) including Five year/Four-year Integrated Master's Degree programme. IIFM will use XAT score for short-listing the candidates for calling for GD/PI. XLRI have no role either in the selection process or in the conduct of the programme. http://iifm.ac.in/admission and remit the application fee of Rs. 1000/- (Rs. 500/- for SC/ ST) through Credit Card/ Debit Card/ Net banking. Click on the link for more details:-https://www.shiksha.com/college/iifm-indian-institute-of-forest-management-Bhopal-28228/admission. Thank you.

A humanity scholar will be doing very well at IIFM as many subjects revolve around society and culture towards the progressive trimesters. She/he will better be aligned and sensitized towards the social vertical and will have an edge over other students with technical courses. Development Management particularly will be a better scope along with other opportunities equally available at IIFM. You will get a lot to discover and learn within a short span of two years with hands-on experience in the field as well.

Hy Shikha. IIFM offers courses such as :
1. Post Graduate Diploma in Forest Management (PGDFM)
2. Post Graduate Diploma in Sustainability Management (PGDSM)
All other relevant details can be referred from
www.iifm.ac.in
Further queries can be put on - pr@iifm. AC. In.

IIFM gives plenty of opportunities for finance and development sector. Several Banks, Microfinance Institutions, NBFCs along with State Livelihood Missions & top NGOs are the some top recruiters at IIFM. For details of last year's placements you can visit: http://iifm.ac.in/pgdfm/placements/
I hope you get some help from this. Feel free to ask more queries.

Hi Ritu,
Congratulations on making it to the Indian Institute of Forest Management. At the onset, I would like to tell you that enter the campus with your set goals but keep yourself flexible and adaptive to take every small learning that the wonderful campus is going to provide you with.
The course structure is designed very nicely to start working on your basics, but it is great to know that you want to utilize these two months. You can go through Ken Black's Applied Business Statistics. You can also try you tube videos on management accounting, topics as easy as Debit, Credit, Cash flow etc. (If you're not from Commerce background). Other than this, if time permits, you can go through some marketing concepts either through internet or a book on marketing management by Philip Kotler.
All these books are there in IIFM library as well. So, I would suggest you to preferably look for online sources.