IIM Indore inaugurates IPM Social Internship 2022-23

The social internship for the IPM 2021 batch, which has 122 participants who opted for campus placements, will take place between April and May 2023. Through this internship, the participants will acquire the necessary exposure to become socially conscious and contribute positively to society.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore conducted the inaugural event of the IPM Social Internship 2022-23. Professor Himanshu Rai, Director, IIM Indore, and Professor Shruti Tewari, Chair, IPM also graced the event with their presence. The IPM programme provides various opportunities for its participants to develop social consciousness, and one of these is the 6-8 week social internship after their second year. During this internship, the participants collaborate with different government organizations, NGOs, CSR wings of companies, and research institutes to work extensively on societal issues, the institute said.

The social internship for the IPM 2021 batch, which has 122 participants who opted for campus placements, will take place between April and May 2023. Through this internship, the participants will acquire the necessary exposure to become socially conscious and contribute positively to society.

Launched in 2011, the IPM programme by IIM Indore, aimed at producing socially conscious and contextually relevant managers. The social placement programme serves the dual purpose of providing students with professional working experience in a social backdrop while allowing them to apply their interdisciplinary learnings in solving real-life social problems in association with other organizations. The programme is initiated by the students and executed by an elected student body called the Social Placement Committee.

With 100% placements, the batch has secured a total of 127 offers for 122 students who opted for the campus placement process. Of these, 72% of the total offers are from CSR sectors, while 22% of the total offers came from social impact organizations, marking the first time such organizations have participated in the programme. Social incubators were the third most popular sector, followed by research institutes & think tanks, and NGOs.

The majority of the roles offered were in research & insights, data analysis, corporate communications, marketing, and field research. However, this year also saw an increase in roles offered in the domains of finance & investment and impact measurement, broadening the scope of exposure for the students. This year, a total of 33 recruiting organizations participated in the programme, with 52% being first-time recruiters. Prominent CSR recruiters included Capgemini, TCS, JM Financial, Tata, Biocon, among others. The prominent social incubators that participated were CIIE.CO from IIM Ahmedabad, NSRCEL from IIM Bangalore, and Viilgro Innovations Foundation. The research institutions & think tanks cohort included PRS Legislative Research, FemLab.Co, Institute of Chinese Studies, among others. The notable NGOs that participated were Room to Read, SEWA International, and Magic Bus India Foundation.

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