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Average salary at Gujarat's Institute of Rural Management, Anand up by 34%

Ernst & Young offers highest package of Rs10.47 lakhs per annum; Tata Steel was among the first-timers at the institute.

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Here, the reputation of an institute is not measured by the number of zeroes in salary offers. In the era of globalization, a dream job in this management school is to work for upliftment of farmers or rural poor in distant barren lands!

Welcome to the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) - a pioneer institute set up by Dr Verghese Kurien and favourite destination for leading grass root organisations to recruit rural managers every placement season.

Placement season 2011 at the IRMA was no different this time around. Around 33 organisations at the grass-root level offered around 125 jobs — around 3.78 offers for every student of the 99 students of the Post Graduate Programmes in Rural Management (PRM) — by Friday.

Students are all smiles as the average salary at IRMA rose by 34% to 8.03 lakh per annum this year, against Rs 6 lakh per annum in the placement season for 2010. A total of 257 jobs were announced by the 63 organisations that came for placements.

The highest pay package offered was by consulting firm Ernst & Young — Rs 10.47 p.a.

Placement coordinator and assistant professor at IRMA Prof Preeti Priya told DNA that the recruiters represented a wide range of sectors - finance, research and advisory, agri-business, ICT, renewable energy, livelihood promotion, watershed development, education and health. 

"The placement for the 2009-2011 batch is excellent. Recruiters, be it traditional ones or first-timers, have shown confidence in the IRMA students. First-timers who came to the campus include BIP-BOP Schneider Electric to provide energy access to rural India, government advisory group Ernst and Young, Tata Steel CSR, Rural Energy Access programme etc," she said.

Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) - traditional recruiters at IRMA -- made offers to 20 students. Two jobs each were offered by the newly set up NDDB Dairy Service and BIP-BOP by Schneider Electric.

The "Essence of Life" programme of ITT Corporation that intends to provide innovative water management solutions to the farmers particularly to the small and marginal ones, has recruited two participants for its India operations and has shown interest in similar operations in countries from Africa. ITC, ICICI, and many other prominent companies also made strong offers.

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