Broad Objective

MINDS has the broad objective of creating a pool of competent techno-managerial personnel for India's infrastructure sector.

Focal Thrust

The first Management School of its kind in India and the developing world, MINDS caters to the managerial demands of various infrastructure areas such as:

• Transport including
  
  • Railways
    
  • Airways
    
  • Ports/ Shipping Lines and
    
  • Highways
    
• Energy & Power
  
• Telecommunications
  
• Water & Sanitation
  
• Urban Rural Partnership including
  
  • Services
    
  • Rural Development and
    
  • PURA - Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas
    
• Housing, Slums & Poverty Alleviation
  
• Health & Education
  
• IT-Enabled Services
  
• Financial Services and
  
• Local Governance & Community Leadership

Academic Programmes

The school has a distinguished faculty, unique curriculum and pragmatic programmes and special academic, industry & employer linkages. The MINDS course curriculum is tailored to meet the sectoral demands as also to suit the aspirations of young professionals, without replicating the efforts of existing schools of business management.

Beginning August 2005, MINDS will commence a

• Post-Graduate Diploma in Infrastructure Management (PGDIM), a one-year full-time programme for graduate engineers and post-graduates in other disciplines, offered in collaboration with Karnataka’s esteemed Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU).
  
  
• The PGDIM programme would provide the opportunity to draw on STEM’s extensive sectoral expertise and knowledge resource, work on live projects being implemented by reputed infrastructure organisations and gain hands-on professional experience. Successful participants will receive the coveted VTU Diploma. They can look forward to excellent career opportunities in public/ corporate sectors and public-private partnership enterprises involved in infrastructure planning, development and management, as project managers, analysts, consultants & advisors.

Other programmes on the anvil include

• Post-Graduate Certificate in Infrastructure and Development Management (PGCIM), a one-year part-time Executive Capacity Enhancement (ECE) Programme for in-service professionals;
• Professional Enrichment Programmes (PEPs) of short duration on specific aspects of Infrastructure & Development Management for in-service personnel; and
• Research Programmes, National Seminars & Workshops to facilitate infrastructure-related policy deliberations and development of localized action plans as well as knowledge dissemination.