Tiruchirappalli, January 28, 2024: Dr Asit K Barma, who joined BIM Trichy as a Professor and Director in February 2021, has been granted an extension of his term for another three years.
At the helm of BIM’s affairs, Prof Asit took over during the challenging COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, BIM witnessed a huge transformation, featuring in NIRF’s top 100 B Schools list in subsequent years, setting up Tamil Nadu’s first Bloomberg-equipped Finance Lab, being the only non-IIM B-School to be the academic partner of a State Government for the prestigious TN CM’s two-year Fellowship program. The institute also witnessed the best-ever placement outcome for its graduating students. This year, BIM Trichy is celebrating forty years since its foundation.
‘BIM is one of the country’s oldest and premier B Schools with great promise. We will set the benchmark against the best in the world, and I’ll work with the Board and BIM family to make BIM a world-class B School.’
Expressing happiness and thanking the BoG of BIM Trichy, Dr. Asit K Barma, the Director of Bharathidasan Institute of Management, remarked, ‘We have ambitious plans ahead. Our new 18-acre campus on Trichy Pudukkottai highway will see state-of-the-art facilities operational in 2025-26. Besides NBA, we are progressing well on our AACSB accreditation with a major drive on globalization. We already have an MoU with the Rennes School of Business, France. We are in the process of having a similar MoU with tier-1 B Schools in the USA and Australia to extend exchange and dual degree programs to our students and also to our alumni. We like to be known as a boutique B School specializing in new technology applications across domains and Sustainable living applications. Our research output has significantly improved with our faculty working on many Government-funded projects and high-impact research works on AI/ML, ESG, and Start-up ecosystems.
About Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM Trichy):
Established in 1984, Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli, an ISO 21001:2018 certified institution, is an autonomous school of excellence of Bharathidasan University, run by an independent society. BIM offers a two-year residential MBA program approved by AICTE and affiliated with Bharathidasan University, specializing in Marketing Management, Finance and Economics, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Human Resources Management, and Digital Business & Analytics. It also conducts TN CM’s Fellowship Program, besides Management Development /Faculty Development Programs. More than 4500 BIM Alumni spread around the globe are significantly contributing to industry, academics, and society today. Former Union Finance and Industry Minister Bharat Ratna, Late Shri C Subramaniam, was instrumental in setting up this B School. He was motivated by starting a School of Excellence in Management that would be organically linked with an industrial complex. He believed that just as a medical school needed to be attached to a hospital to be effective as a teaching institution, a Management School had to be linked with industry. Accordingly, the institute was set up in collaboration with BHEL within its sprawling Tiruchirappalli campus. In addition to its graduate program, BIM has a strong research profile and established multiple centres of excellence, including the Operations Excellence Centre, Financial Trading and Analytics Centre (FINTRAC), Real-Time Contextual Marketing Labs, and Centre for Sustainable Development to advance contemporary management practices (www.bim.edu).
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Mafruza Sultana, Assistant Professor and Faculty In Charge, PRCOM
Bharathidasan Institute of Management
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Email: mafruza@bim.edu
Mr. Jeeva Kumaran (Director’s Office)
Bharathidasan Institute of Management
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Email: jeeva@bim.edu