Not all 578 students who graduated out of IIM-B are enamoured by the corporate world. One of them even dreams of working in the countryside.
Nishant Kumar Ojha, who bagged a gold medal for scoring the second rank in Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), does not find the corporate world appealing. Instead, Ojha wants to serve rural India and its people.
The youngster who was awarded his degree, along with 578 other students at the 36th annual convocation ceremony of IIM-B on Thursday, is now preparing for the civil services examination to serve the Indian masses.
Hailing from a middle-class family in Bihar, Ojha did his mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. “I want to serve the grassroots people by joining the civil services,” said Ojha.
Before joining IIM-B, Ojha had five years of work experience in construction equipment sector. At IIM-B, he made it to the prestigious director’s merit list and bagged the Sir Ratan Tata Trust Scholarship.
He initially wanted to do an internship with Deloittee-S&O, but later he kept away from the placements itself to fulfill his dream of “serving people”.
Ojha’s dreams are shared by his classmate, Subhrajit Majumdar, a physically challenged ex-army man, who wants to start his own enterprise in the energy sector. “It was a great learning experience at IIM-B. Now, I want to start my own company in the energy sector,” smiled Majumdar, who uses a wheel-chair.
However, for all the graduating students from the top B-school, lot of sweat and hard work went behind achieving success.
Rohit S, who bagged a gold medal for securing first rank in PGP course, said that it required lot of hard work and consistent performance to top a batch consisting of some of the finest brains.
“I would like to give credit to my regular studies, support given by friends and guidance by professors and parents behind my success,” said Rohit, who will be joining McKinsey & Co as a junior associate.
Anirban Ghosh, who shared the second rank with Ojha, said it was a great experience to be part of the institute. “Although I will be going to London to join my new assignment, I will soon be coming back to India,” said Anirban, who will be joining Goldman Sachs.
Degrees were also awarded to students of Fellow Programme in Management, Post-Graduate Programme in Software Enterprise Management, Post-Graduate Programme in Public Policy Management and Executive Post-Graduate Programme in Management courses.
The degrees were presented to the students by Mukesh Ambani, chairman of the IIM-B Board of Governors, in the presence of chief guest Kapil Sibal, Union minister of human resource development and communications and information technology, IIM-B director Prof Pankaj Chandra and a host of faculty and family members.
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