(LiveMint)
India’s largest power utility NTPC Ltd on Tuesday joined hands with Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to establish a management school in Noida near Delhi that would offer specialized courses on energy management and work as a policy think tank.
“We have bigger plans…it will be a full-fledged B-School with a specialized focus on energy sector – both fossil and renewables,” said Saptarshi Roy, director (human resource) at NTPC. “We don’t have enough management schools who are offering specialised management courses in the energy sector and we would like to be the go-to place in the next few years,” Roy added.
Officials of NTPC and IIM-A told reporters that apart from offering courses for executives and fresh graduates, the school will work as a policy think tank to help government departments and corporates in India’s power sector with an installed capacity of 330 gigawatt (GW) through research and consultancy.
“The energy space in India is changing with a new focus on solar, wind etc., and then there is talk of a huge shift towards electric vehicles…where will you get the manpower from,” said Sunil Kumar Maheshwari, a professor at IIM-A, referring to the need of such a specialised school and why IIM-A joined hands with NTPC.
