Indian institute of management Amritsar

Abstract

Business management schools are educational institutions, which not only provides degree in business management or administration, but also educate the students in such a way, that they mould themselves into leaders in society-confronting and solving the global issues using their business knowledge and principles. The areas in which they master at, is finance, marketing, human Resource, accounting etc. The history of teaching and learning of managerial and business skills studies traces long back during ancient times, where this management studying- teaching-and practising concept, being centuries old, has developed with the civilisations of the world. The Vedas, Hindu Epics, Smritis ,Puranas, religious books such as Buddhist and Jain Texts, foreign traveller accounts gives us a glimpse of management in ancient times. The prime minister of Chandragupta Maurya Kautilya, well known as Chankya with his administrative laid the foundation of management practising and teaching in India. The first proper management or business schools were XLRI Jamshedpur, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, established in the year 1949 and 1953 respectively. The first Indian Institute of Management was established in Kolkata (former Calcutta). It had its inception soon after India got its independence in 1947. The nation grew rapidly within short period of time and the nation started facing difficulties in finding suitable managers to direct the development of the country. Hence the Indian government decided to set up two elite management institutes, named Indian Institutes of Management. Soon many more IIMs were established to educate the enthusiastic minds of the country. The campus of IIM was considered true architectural masterpieces designed by star architects. The infrastructure and campus design added to the quality of IIMs This thesis report deals with Indian Institute of Management Amritsar (IIM Amritsar) located in Amritsar, Punjab, India. It is one of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) which was established in 2015. The area allotted for the new campus is 67 acre site near Manawala on AmritsarJalandhar GT Road. The design of the IIM Amritsar is seen as a challenge to live up to the brand name of IIM campus and cater to the needs of an institute. Henceforth, the scope of the work is defined, which basically focuses on the designing and planning of the campus site plan and the main academic complex. The concept behind the design of the academic block is to create biophilic environment around the whole campus, which is done by retaining most of the naturalistic green cover in the campus, the design, form and the planning of the academic complex is done in such a way that it is employing traditional passive method of building construction as well as giving a modern touch to the building, which is similar to the image of architecture of Amritsar city; amalgamation of the old and new.