Prin. L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research Hosur Road Bangalore Answered Questions

Yes, but it depends upon your circumstances. Professionals opt for distance learning due to their job commitments and student who cant spend much opt for Distance Learning. Now, other question is Amity, NMIMS or Welingkar. In recent UGC notifications, Deemed Universities cant run Distance learning which is NMIMS and Bharti Vidyapeeth as renowned names and Welingkar have been asked to be converted to University if they are willing to run distance learning.

Automobile engineering is a core area and MBA is generalized area. It depends on how you choose your career.
Anyways MBA will be valued only when you have exposure and experience. So have some experience in the area you want to specialize and start your MBA so that it will be additional qualification in all terms.
As you are showing your interest towards the MBA course, so I would like to say that, this is the Master's Degree course, this very professional and dynamic course. The main reason to opt this course is to just increase the salary potential as well as the post.
MBA course is having so many specializations. Each specialization of this course is Unique and having the good scope in its own field. Basically going for any specialization is dependent upon ones interest as well as liking towards that specialization.
I am listing below some of the common and most opted specialization of the MBA course, you can see below, and can opt accordingly:-
Accounting
Business Management
E-Business/E-Commerce
EconomicsEntrepreneurship
Finance
Global Management
Human Resources Management
Information Systems
Marketing
Operations Management
Strategic/Risk Management
Technology Management

Getting a job is one of the most important and happy moment in one's life. But getting a job in today's cut-throat competitive world is difficult. The situation is also not much better in India. The most basic requirement to get a job is- Basic Education. No company would want to hire a person who can't even function the most basic functions in a company. Hence, basic elementary education is a must. Additionally, the person must also have completed supplementary degree to further enhance his chance of getting a job.But today just having a degree to show isn't enough. Along with education, the person must also possess skills like public speaking, interacting with new people, soft skills and much more. Also having a specialized degree or certification in the choice of your field can help you immensely in finding a job.

For acing the Group Discussion/PI that is conducted by the IIMs following strategies can be followed:
Reading the newspaper: What tests your ability to form an opinion and thus it is better to boost your knowledge about the current events of the world and analyze its impact. You can use the SPELT (Social, Political, Economic, Legal, Technical) framework for this. My suggestion would be to use a national daily like Hindu or Economic Times and start reading at least 8-10 articles on a regular basis.
Following Blogs: You can read blogs that are written by professors of IIMs, SPJIMR or any other institute of India from where you are sure that the content would be backed by facts and you would get a lot of insights.
Analyze you motivation of doing your MBA thoroughly and make sure that you are well versed with your academics and work experience.
Finally, take help from your friends and conduct mock interviews and mock GDs amongst yourselves. This would increase your confidence and you would be able to approach the process with much more confidence.

For practicing the Group Discussion/PI that is conducted by the IIMs following strategies can be followed:
Reading the newspaper: What tests your ability to form an opinion and thus it is better to boost your knowledge about the current events of the world and analyze its impact. You can use the SPELT (Social, Political, Economic, Legal, Technical) framework for this. My suggestion would be to use a national daily like Hindu or Economic Times and start reading at least 8-10 articles on a regular basis.
Following Blogs: You can read blogs that are written by professors of IIMs, SPJIMR or any other institute of India from where you are sure that the content would be backed by facts and you would get a lot of insights.
Analyze you motivation of doing your MBA thoroughly and make sure that you are well versed with your academics and work experience.
Finally, take help from your friends and conduct mock interviews and mock GDs amongst yourselves. This would increase your confidence and you would be able to approach the process with much more confidence.