Two year course in Development Management

Post Graduate Diploma in Development Management

The Tata-Dhan Academy at Madurai is offering a specialized course called Post Graduate Diploma in Development Management to meet the requirement of suitable hands for development studies. This academy is a joint venture of Dhan Foundation and Sir Ratan Tata Trust.

By offering this couse, the Academy wants to produce quality development professionals with appropriate motivation, values and ethics besides shaping them to work for creating a significant impact on the lives of the poor. This two year programme commences in July’09 and would have four segments, preparatory, classroom,fieldwork and development practice. The preparatory segment, which would go for four weeks, attempts to raise the students proficiency in understanding the rural context, qualitative analysis and communication skills.

During this particular segment, students will have village stay, remedial classes in Englsh, mathematics, computer appreciation and application, case analysis besides yoga appreciation.

According to the faculty of Tata Dhan Academy, the classroom segment will teach students on basics of development, management for development, leadership and institution building, and communication for development. The field work segment focuses on intervention strategies through field studies to make the students understand various issues related to development. Management concepts, principles, tools and techniques relevant to development are taught in this course, a press note from the Academy said, Candidates completing the course successfully will be placed in development organizations.

Admission process

Selection for admission to this course will be made on the basis of a Development Management Admission Test(DMAT)to be held on February 15 at various centres in the country. In southern India, the test centres are: Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi.

Graduates with minimum 50%marks can apply for the course. Those appearing for the final year UG examinations this year can also apply.

The application form can be downloaded from the Academy’s website: www.dhan.org/tda Telephone Nos of the Tata dhan academy’s Madurai office are: 0452-2475318 and 2475219.