IIM Kozhikode signs MoU to set up centre for career development at Koduvally

For the consultancy project, the institute has formed an expert panel and IIM-K faculty members Anubha Shekhar Sinha and Surya Prakash Pati will be leading this expert panel. The Koduvally constituency consists of six grama panchayats and a municipality.

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode and People’s Knowledge Movement (PKM) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a centre for career development at the Koduvally constituency. The MoU was signed between Koduvally MLA M K Muneer and Lt Col Julius M George (retd), Chief Administrative Officer, IIM-K, in the presence of Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIM-K.

Under this pact, PKM has awarded to IIM-Kozhikode an assignment for consultancy services for the preparation of a detailed feasibility report for transforming the Koduvally constituency by giving knowledge support in developing a centre for career development toward significantly improving human capital. It will also brainstorm about generating employment opportunities and implementing it as a pilot project in the constituency, according to an official statement.

For the consultancy project, the institute has formed an expert panel and IIM-K faculty members Anubha Shekhar Sinha and Surya Prakash Pati will be leading this expert panel. The Koduvally constituency consists of six grama panchayats and a municipality.

Dr Muneer, who is the chief executive officer and executive director of PKM, a registered society, said the success of the consultancy project would be a role model for governance in Kerala on how knowledge inputs from an Institute of Eminence like the IIM-K could transform the whole constituency.

Professor Chatterjee said the IIM-K deeply respected the people of Kerala, who value their ecology and habitat and never shy away from adopting community solutions to various challenges. “We are confident that this consultative project being taken up by IIM-K will bring forth and facilitate framework, tools, and research data that will go a long way in providing needed knowledge inputs for the development of human capital in Koduvally constituency and set new benchmarks in academic-community knowledge collaboration and exchange,” he said.

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