Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) placement week was held during December 02-09, 2019. This year the total batch size was 233 students, out of which 226 students registered for the campus placements (one student was a sponsored candidate, and six students opted out of the campus placements).
Twenty-seven students were placed through Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs), and 199 students were placed through the campus placement process. We received 314 job offers from 109 organizations.
The average salary offered by the business sector organizations stands at Rs. 10.80 lakhs per annum and that for the development sector organizations (NGOs, Cooperatives, and Government Development Agencies) stands at Rs. 10.74 lakhs per. The median salary stands at Rs. 10.45 lakhs per annum. The maximum salary for the batch stands at Rs. 52.00 lakhs per annum, and the minimum salary consciously chosen by our student in the development sector stands at Rs. 4.80 lakhs. A total of 42 students took up offers made by NGOs, Government Agencies, and CSR foundations. Organizations such as Vedanta Foundation, Caspian, BAIF Development Research Foundation, TVS-Srinivasan Service Trust, Government of Telangana (Dept of Panchayati Raj & Rural Development), Madhya Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission, Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education, BASIX, etc., recruited through the campus placements.
The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (Amul) was the largest recruiter this year, and Mother Dairy was the second-largest recruiter this year. Multinational and national agribusiness corporations such as Tolaram, ITC Agribusiness Division, ADM Agro, Seedworks, Adani Wilmar, Emami Agrotech, etc., participated in the placements. From the FMCG and Retail sector, Reliance Retails, Future Group, Metro Cash & Carry, Ninjacart, etc., recruited from IRMA. Banking, finance, and insurance companies such as ICICI Bank, IDFC First Bank, Axis Bank, Fullerton, Vivriti Capital, ICICI Prudential, Bharati AXA, Reliance General Insurance, and several small finance banks recruited from the campus this year.
