Rise in Middle Class & Corporate Investments lead to opportunities for Rural Management Professionals-Mr. Prabhat Kumar
Jaipur, 21st February, 2016: The IIHMR University, Jaipur concluded its 2 day Rural Management Alumni Meet 2016 for the students of The IIHMR Universitys' School of Rural Management which initiated from 20th February, 2016 to 21st February, 2016. The IIHMR Universitys' School of Rural Management invited over 55 students to their campus of three batches. The event was graced by renowned dignitaries like, Mr. Prabhat Kumar, National Thematic Manager Child Protection, Save The Children, Dr. Rajesh Khanna, ICRA Management Consulting Services Limited, Dr. Goutam Sadhu, Dean School of Rural Management, IIHMR University and other faculty members from IIHMR School of Rural Management.
Mr. Prabhat Kumar, National Thematic Manager Child Protection, Save The Children said, "Rural Management as a profession is now become extremely dynamic and has seen a drastic paradigm shift. As a rural management professional, one can observe that the space for the Civil Society is decreasing as opposed to the demand for rural professionals which is increasing. Both of these are contradicting each other, thus creating development opportunities for Rural Management professionals. Corporate investments and development are the key areas of focus after the CSR bill being passed. The government is also more on the mission mode where they have implemented various missions creating a need for rural management professionals. The Government was earlier on the mode of contributing for the society, however, post the CSR bill the government is now expecting the society to contribute, thus, emphasizing on specialization and skill development. It is also seen that the Rural Development can resolve the problems of urbanization, as most of our population still resides in the rural regions and the development of the grass root level in terms of sanitation facilities, water facilities, development of infrastructure is utmost important for an overall development, creating more and more opportunities for Rural Management professionals."
Dr. Rajesh Khanna, ICRA Management Consulting Services Limited, said "Rural management landscape is ever changing. It is noticed over the years that the Governance and Social Inclusion should be at the local level too. Rural Management professionals work very closely with the district authorities. It is important that they must have a holistic view for the development at the grass root level in different states, if not this might end up seeing fragmented development and not an overall development across the nation. Also, the Gram Panchayat level has always been considered to deliver projects and no one has paid attention to their own source revenue. To organize and utilize the own source funding and source more resources, there is a requirement of the rural management professionals to help these Gram Panchayat's at the grass root level with capacity building, identifying their needs, hand holding and participatory methods on how they can involve different social groups and conduct social mapping. Today we realize that every scheme is no longer compartmentalized, nothing is jacketed and it is important to promote the aspect of community mobilization. Thus, creating ample opportunities for Rural Management professionals."
The Rural Management Alumni Meet 2016 also saw students from various organisations such as Reliance Foundation, HCL, NUHM etc. share their experiences with the students of the current batch.
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