IIM-V inks pact with Ambedkar Foundation

Visakhapatnam: The Indian Institute of Management-Visakhapatnam (IIM-V) has signed a MoU with the Dr Ambedkar Foundation (DAF), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

The MoU envisages establishing at IIM-V, the Dr Ambedkar Chair in Public Policy, Economics and Social Sciences. The Chair will serve as a knowledge center to advance studies and research to understand, assess, disseminate, and implement ideas and thoughts of Dr. BR Ambedkar.

The Chair will promote the economic policies and principles of Dr Ambedkar. In addition, the research agenda of the Chair at the Institute shall be to delve into the role of access to health and its role in social justice.

Director, IIM-V Prof. M. Chandrasekhar signed the MOU with Vikas Trivedi, Director, DAF recently at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. IIM-V is the only IIM in the country to have been awarded this prestigious Chair.