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All 180 students of the flagship programme Post-Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDRM), at the late Dr Varghese Kurien-founded Institute of Rural Management-Anand (IRMA) have been placed this year during the placement week organised from February 22 to 28 at Anand, that saw Amul-marketer GCMMF with the maximum job offers, 18, for a second consecutive year.
Over 350 job offers were received from about 100 recruiters for the batch. While 12 participants accepted the pre-placement offers during their internship phase, two were sponsored candidates and five opted out of the placement programme this year.
The largest number of jobs offered by a single company was by the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), a total of 18, as it did last year.
HDFC Bank comes next
Cooperatives/producers collectives, as a sector, offered jobs to one-fourth of the batch, an IRMA spokesman said here. The other single largest recruiter this year was HDFC Bank in the agri-finance-microfinance sector with 11 selections, followed by ICICI-Lombard and National Payments Corporation of India, taking 10 and 9 students, respectively.
Like in 2015, the emphasis on financial inclusion and revival of the microfinance sector continued to reflect in the placements at IRMA with agri-finance and microfinance sector emerging as the biggest recruiter with about 1/3rd of the graduating batch joining the sector.
Interest in social entrepreneurship sector continued to increase amongthe graduating batch with six of them recruiting 14 participants.
A total of 25 students chose to take up offers made by development programmes and organisations run by both the NGOs and the government. The NGOs included the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, PRADAN, and Gramin Shiksha Kendra. Among the government organizations/missions, were Rajasthan Grameen Ajeevika Parishad, Madhya Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission, Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society and Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), Andhra Pradesh.
The average salary of the current batch was over ₹8.5 lakh per annum, and the median stood at ₹8.2 lakh per annum.
The maximum annual salary for the batch stood at ₹27.4 lakh.
As always, IRMA continues to turn out students who choose to work with NGOs and government development organisations where they give priority to serving one’s calling rather than tangible monetary gains, he added.
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