IISWBM alumni demands alma mater get university status soon

The alumni association of the Indian Institute Of Social Welfare And Business Management (IISWBM), Tuesday demanded their alma mater, the country's oldest B-school, be granted university or deemed university status soon.

IISWBM senior faculty and key alumni member Jhumoor Biswas said, "Getting the deemed university status will help the IISWBM get adequate central funds to carry on research in different fields where our researchers had been undertaking important works in past several decades."

"As the alumni, we are concerned that the IISWBM has still not been granted university or deemed university status which will allow our brightest students and alumni to research on globally important disciplines. This is crucial for the present and future generations," one of the alumni association members and top executive of a corporate group, Koushik Paul told a press conference here.

The institute has done major works in Transportation and Logistics Management, Supply Chain ...