{"id":131,"date":"2006-01-12T22:58:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/01\/12\/iim-to-explore-singapore-plans\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T17:28:48","slug":"iim-to-explore-singapore-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/01\/12\/iim-to-explore-singapore-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"IIM to explore Singapore plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> BANGALORE: <\/strong>The <strong>board of governors<\/strong> of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) will meet next week to discuss the human resource development ministry&#8217;s decision to turn down its proposal to set up a campus in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will discuss all options (<strong>about offering courses in Singapore<\/strong>) at the meeting next week,&#8221; IIM-B director Prakash G. Apte said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry Wednesday turned down the proposal from<strong> IIM-B<\/strong>, one of the six IIMs, India&#8217;s premier managements schools, saying that it should first focus on meeting the domestic demand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been told to first meet the growing demand for management graduates in the country before venturing outside. We don&#8217;t think the ministry has an issue if we offer short-term programmes overseas,&#8221; Apte said.<\/p>\n<p>The board, headed by Reliance Industries chairman <strong>Mukesh Ambani<\/strong>, will meet Jan 20 to explore options for the institute&#8217;s Singapore plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGALORE: The board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) will meet next week to discuss the human resource development ministry&#8217;s decision to turn down its proposal to set up a campus in Singapore. &#8220;We will discuss all options (about offering courses in Singapore) at the meeting next week,&#8221; IIM-B director Prakash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ahmedabad","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}