JitNik's Tech World

As the market for green managers is growing in the country, B-schools are offering management lessons in environment-related disciplines to their students. Leading B-schools in the country like Birla Institute of Management Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology and IIMs are offering courses covering areas like sustainability and green manufacturing, reports Rajiv Tikoo of the Financial Express.


The Birla Institute of Management Technology (Bimtech) and the Institute of Chemical Technology have just introduced full-fledged MBA programmes in sustainability-related disciplines. On the other hand, IIM-Calcutta along with IIT-Kanpur and IIT-Madras has begun offering courses in green manufacturing from this academic year. Over the last years, IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Lucknow have also been offering carbon courses in various programmes.

According to Shekhar Chaudhuri, Director, IIM-Calcutta, the green manufacturing course offered under the post-graduate programme focuses on both technological and management aspects of greening. It is an initiative of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council and is supported by Japanese International Cooperation Agency (Jica) under a bilateral agreement between the two governments, he added.

The two-year, full-time post-graduate diploma in management (Sustainable Development Practices) offered by the Birla Institute of Management Technology (Bimtech) aims to train managers to tap into new opportunities arising out of the interplay between changing international polices and national priorities on development issues and the business responses to them,said Bimtech Director H Chaturvedi.

Mumbai-headquartered Institute of Chemical Technology has just started a two-year MTech programme in green technology, focusing on green chemistry, environmental engineering and pollution prevention among other issues. Industry practitioners would have the option of pursuing it as a three-year part-time programme.