Are IITs About Plush Jobs or Research? Asks Pranab Mukherjee


Former president of India Pranab Mukherjee concluded his final lecture at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad on 16 November. For the last three months Mukherjee has been conducting lectures as a visiting faculty at the premier business school where he taught the course ‘Public Policy for Inclusive Development of India’ under the aegis of the JSW School of Public Policy.

The former president has been conducting lectures for the last three months where he held 12 out of total 22 sessions on the course.

On 17 November, Mukherjee’s last lecture on ‘Articulating Policy and Institutional Agenda for Future Transformation of India’ was held at Ravi J. Matthai Auditorium where members of the press and students from different educational institutes were also invited.

Mukherjee is the second former president to have taught at the premier B-school as a guest faculty, after APJ Abdul Kalam.

Source - The Quint