NAROTTAM MORARJEE INSTITUTE OF SHIPPING - MUMBAI

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN SHIPPING MANAGEMENT/ ASSOCIATESHIP/FELLOWSHIP

(Established under the joint auspices of teh Government of India and Indian Shipping Industry)
76, Jolly Maker Chambers No.2, 7th Floor,Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021. INDIA
Phone : 2202 4110/ 2281 3280. Telefax : 91-22-2202 90 79
E-mail : nmis@vsnl.com
Website: http://www.nmis.net/

ADMISSION 2008

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN SHIPPING MANAGEMENT (for Graduates)

ASSOCIATESHIP and FELLOWSHIP (for Graduates/ undergraduates with 2 years shipping industry experience)


For a bright career in SHIPPING MANAGEMENT N.M. Institute of Shipping offers professional qualifications like POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN SHIPPING MANAGEMENT (for Graduates) ASSOCIATESHIP and FELLOWSHIP (for Graduates/ undergraduates with 2 years shipping industry experience).

Classes for all courses commence in July 2008 and registration for correspondence courses can be done upto 31st August 2008.

Exam Centers at various places are located in INDIA & DUBAI.

Persons appearing for final degree examination can obtain provisional admission.

Prospectus and application form can be obtained form the Institute on payment of Rs.100/- (US $ 30/- or equivalent in Indian Rupees for students outside India) by cash or D/D in favour of the Institute payable at Mumbai.


For further details and admission kindly contact:
Mr.P.B.K.Menon - Director,
Narottam Morarjee Institute of Shipping
76 Jolly Maker Chambers No. 2, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021,
Tel. Nos. 22024110 / 22813280. Mobile No. 9821311695 , Telefax No. 22029079,
E-mail: nmis@vsnl.com
Website: www.nmis.net

EXAMINATION CENTRES:
Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Vishakapatnam, Chennai, Kochi, Vasco-da-Gama, Ahmedabad, Gandhidham, Dubai and any other place where 10 or more candidates opt for the examination.


NAROTTAM MORARJEE INSTITUTE OF SHIPPING

Training of personnel, both technical and commercial, is very essential for the successful operation of any industry. With the birth and growth of Indian Merchant Marine, gradually emerged T.S. DUFFERIN/T.S. RAJENDRA, Directorate of Marine Engineering (DMET), Lal Bahadur Shastri Nautical and Engineering College and other institutions for training navigating officers, marine engineers and seamen. There was, however, no organised attempt in our country to train personnel for the commercial operations of shipping. Persons seeking professional qualifications in shipbroking used to appear for examinations conducted annually by foreign institutions. Thus there was a dire need for an Indian Institution for training of personnel on commercial aspects and management of shipping particularly in the wake of expansion of Indian Merchant Marine and Shipping activities in our country.

The National Shipping Board which is a high level advisory body set up under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 recommended to the Government of India for the establishment of an autonomous institution for training personnel and conducting examinations on the commercial aspects of shipping and for helping the shipping industry by undertaking necessary research into various problems facing the industry. The Government accepted this recommendation. Precisely to fill up this need, an Institute of Shipping named after late Shri Narottam Morarjee in recognition of his great pioneering contributions to Indian shipping was established on 3rd January, 1969 under the joint auspices of the Government of India and the Indian Shipping Industry. The Institute is registered under the Societies Registration Act as well as under the Bombay Public Trust Act.


Courses:
The Institute conducts various part time courses of studies leading to the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management – First Year and Final Year, Associateship and Fellowship covering practically all important aspects of commercial shipping.

Eligibility:
Admission to the Studentship for the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management – First Year, is open to all those who are not less than 20 years in age having a degree in Arts, Commerce, Science, Law or in any other faculty. However, admission for the course leading to the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management – Final Year, will be restricted only to those who have passed the Institute’s examination for the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management – First Year.

Admission to the Ordinary Membership of the Institute is open to all those who are not less than 20 years in age having the minimum qualification of Higher Secondary School Certificate examination or its equivalent rendering him eligible for admission to a college and necessarily possessing before the commencement of the examination at least experience of three years engaged in any shipping or associated industry, Government Department connected with shipping, Customs, Port Administration or any other organisations closely related to shipping business. Such persons are entitled to the category of Ordinary Membership of the Institute on payment of prescribed fees.

Ordinary Members can take the Associateship Examinations of the Institute. After passing the examination, they are eligible to become Associate Members but such eligible persons will have to get themselves elected as Associates of this Institute after paying the prescribed fees before they are allowed to take up the Fellowship Examination. Admission to the Fellowship Examination is open only to those who have passed the Associateship Examination.

Successful candidates in the Fellowship Examination are required to satisfy the Governing Council of the Institute that they are not less than 22 years in age, that they possess experience of not less than 4 years in shipping and that they have paid the prescribed fees, before they are elected/admitted as Fellow Members of the Institute.

While the persons allowed to take up Associateship and Fellowship Examinations are admitted to the Membership of this Institute with attendant rights and obligations, the persons joining for the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management courses are admitted to the Studentship of the Institute with no such rights and obligations and after obtaining the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management, the students concerned can leave the Institute.

Those who have passed the Final Year Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management Examinations will, however, be eligible to enroll themselves as Fellow Members of the Institute provided they possess the prescribed minimum age and experience in shipping as applicable to Fellows of the Institute.

The Diploma in Shipping used to be awarded by the Institute from the very beginning was restricted to University Graduates. The Institute Management later re-titled this Diploma as Diploma in Shipping Management which has been again re-titled now as Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management.

Guidance Lectures:
Guidance lectures for the benefit of those joining the classes for the Associateship, Fellowship and the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management – First and Final Years, are delivered at the Institute in Mumbai twice or thrice on working days during evening hours from June to January end every year. However these class participants would be engaged on holidays for longer sessions.

For the benefit of correspondence students contact classes would be held at Mumbai between 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. on two consecutive days- usually on a Saturday and Sunday in November and January every year.

Syllabus:
The syllabus for the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management – First Year Examination is the same for the Associateship course and the syllabus for the Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management – Final Year Examination is the same for the Fellowship course.


Coverage:
The courses cover practically all commercial aspects and Management of Shipping Business such as Maritime Geography, Shipping Practice, Commercial & Shipping Law, Maritime Economics, Current Shipping Environment, Liner Trade, Multimodal Transport, Shipping Finance, Marine Insurance, Law of Sea Transport and Chartering – dry cargo and tankers.

Scope:
The contents of the courses are specially designed and will be of great interest to those who wish to take up commercial shipping as a career, also those whose experience is confined to a specific field of shipping and who wish to broaden their understanding of the industry and all new entrants to the business of shipping.

Distance Education Programme:
The Institute has been so far conducting personal coaching classes only for the above courses. Since the inception of the Institute in 1969, a large number of persons have qualified in the various examinations. With the introduction of the multi-modal transportation and containerisation, many Inland Container Depots and Freight Stations are being set up. With this, the demand of trade and commerce for personnel conversant with shipping has increased. In order to meet the increased demand from up-country candidates the Institute has introduced Distance Education Programme by correspondence courses since 1998.

Instead of helping the candidates by personal coaching, the distance education programme aims at preparing the up-country candidates for the examination by providing them necessary study materials through correspondence courses.

Any candidate who wishes to take up any of the Institute examinations would have to compulsorily attend the coaching classes or undergo the prescribed correspondence courses. Those who are admitted to the classes should have put in at least 75% attendance in the classes for each year before they are allowed to take up the annual examinations. Those who undergo correspondence courses should have answered at least 2/3rd of the model test papers included in the course of study in order to be eligible for admission to the annual examinations.

Correspondence courses are available for all the examinations presently being held by the Institute.


Examinations:
Examinations are normally held in the first fortnight of March every year at Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Cochin, Vasco-da-Gama, Ahmedabad, Gandhidham, Dubai and any other cities and centres in India or abroad wherever a minimum of 10 candidates opt to take up the examination. Each subject for the examination carries 100 marks and the candidates should secure a minimum of 50% of the marks in each subject for passing the examinations. Failed candidates are exempted from appearing for examinations in those subjects in which they could secure 50 per cent or more marks in earlier attempts. These exemptions are valid only for a period of 5 years from the date of their respective examinations.

No other exemptions are given in any subject based on any special qualification or experience, etc. held by the candidates.


How the Institute helps you:
The Institute provides facilities which enable a member or a student to gain professional qualification in commercial shipping, hitherto not available in our country.

The syllabi of the courses seek to impart the essential theoritical knowledge on commercial shipping with a view to helping a member or a student to take up shipping as a career or to improving one’s own prospects in that field.

Members interested in the study or specialisation of any aspects of commercial shipping, on their own, can utilise the library facilities available at the Institute in Mumbai subject to the conditions prescribed therefor.

Management:
The management and control of the Institute is vested with a Governing Council consisting of 24 members which include the Director General of Shipping, Ministry of Shipping, Government of India, representatives of Union Ministries of Finance and Education, National Shipping Board, National Harbour Board, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Indian National Shipowners’ Association, the Shipping Corporation of India Ltd., elected representatives of the various categories of members and co-opted members.

Guest Faculty:
The guest faculty members of the Institute include experienced and qualified executives from shipping companies and allied organisations as well as professors from Universities.

Special lectures are also delivered by experts in relative field.

Timings:
The Institute Office works between 10.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. every day except on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays.