IIM Shillong celebrated its 14th birthday yesterday by recognising the contributions of its staff, students and the entire IIM Shillong community.
The foundation stone for the institute was laid on December 1, 2007 and the postgraduate programme was formally inaugurated on July 4, 2008 with 63 students enrolled. This year 309 students could make it into the PGP programme, the highest of all time. Today IIM Shillong is backed up by a strong base of 2,500-plus alumni working in reputed business organizations.
IIM Shillong was closely associated with the late former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who passed away in the city while on a lecture visit to IIM Shillong in July 2015.
The institute is determined to continue to work according to his ideology and his teachings. IIM Shillong is privileged to host the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Centre for Policy Research and Analysis, which is envisioned as a proactive embodiment of the philosophy of Kalam, “of leveraging knowledge, technology, and humanism in achieving sustainable development while also ensuring the goals of just and equitable social order,” a press release said.
During these 14 years, students of IIM Shillong have brought the institute laurels by becoming national winners of Loreal Brandstorm, Wipro-Earthian, Tata Steel-a-thon, CFA Ethics Challenge and other achievements like PwC Challenge, Google Case Challenge, Titan Elevate and being recipients of consecutive Aditya Birla Scholarships, etc.
IIM Shillong Director Prof DP Goyal, said, “The institute’s growth over the years has been aided by a distinctive component known as its commitment to the institution as well as its members’ faith in one another and their ability to work well together. It’s true what they say – wherever you go in life, it doesn’t really matter, what matters most is who you are with. We are a family at IIM Shillong and we are all here.”
