:: The First Management Course

A Note on the introduction of the First Management Course in India

• The Department of Education, Government of India created the All India Council for Technical Education on November 30, 1945.

• At its meeting held on April 22, 1948 the Council decided that "a joint committee representing the All India Boards of Technical Studies in Engineering, Commerce, Chemical Technology and Textile Technology should be constituted for the purpose of examining the question of training in Industrial Administration and Business Management and to prepare the scheme for organising such training in the country".

• On May 11, 1950 the Joint Committee set up a sub-committee under the Chairmanship of Sir Jehangir Gandhy, Director, Tata Industries Ltd. to prepare a scheme for the Eastern Region of India for training in Industrial Administration. The Gandhy Committee recommended, "The most effective way, in our opinion, of promoting education in management subjects is to provide opportunities for part-time day and evening studies for the benefit of large number of junior executives who work in business and industry in the metropolitan districts of large cities like Calcutta."

• On the suggestion of the Gandhy Committee and on the recommendation of the Board of Management Studies, the All India Council for Technical Education selected the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (at that time known as The All India Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management) for the Eastern Region for the course in Business Management.

• On July 5, 1954, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, Chief Minister of West Bengal and Founder – President of the Institute inaugurated the first Business Management Course in India. Dr. Jehangir Gandhy, Chairman, All India Board of Technical Studies in Management, Union Ministry of Education, who could not be present at the inaugural ceremony sent a message saying "I am glad that the All India Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management is inaugurating today Business Management Course for the first time in India for the benefit of Junior Business Executives".

• Sir Dorabji Tata School of Social Work, Bombay was founded in 1936. It offered Diploma in Social Work – not in Business Management.

• XLRI, Jamshedpur (originally known as Xavier Labour Relations Institute) was founded in 1949 and offered Diploma in Labour Relations and not in Business Management.