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The Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam (IIM-V) celebrated its 12th Foundation Day connected Saturday (January 17, 2026). Sumita Dawra, erstwhile Secretary (Ministry of Labour and Employment) attended the lawsuit arsenic the main guest.
Sumita Dawra, who besides served arsenic the Principal Secretary for the Higher Education Department (Andhra Pradesh), recalled her relation with the Institute during her sojourn successful 2016 for a enactment conclave organised successful collaboration with IIMB. She appreciated the singular maturation the Institute has achieved since then.
She highlighted the value of skilling, reskilling, and upskilling, on with the request for continuous learning, unlearning, and relearning successful a rapidly evolving planetary economy.
Drawing from her experience, she cited initiatives specified arsenic PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation) and PM Gati Shakti arsenic lawsuit studies for effectual governance and execution. She highlighted the value of analytical and captious thinking, technological literacy, leadership, flexibility, agility, and originative problem-solving.
The travel of IIM-Visakhapatnam began connected 17 January 2015, erstwhile the instauration chromatic was laid by the past Union Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani. Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the Institute’s 241-acre imperishable field astatine Gambheeram Village successful Anandapuram mandal connected 20 February, 2024.
Today, IIM-Visakhapatnam serves implicit 15,000 learners annually from crossed the globe done its on-campus, online, and hybrid programmes. The Institute continues to standard caller heights with its flagship MBA programme, supported by a beardown and divers module base, with a crisp absorption connected research, innovation, and enactment development.
The IIMV-FIELD, 1 of India’s fastest-growing incubators, is nurturing astir 200 start-ups, of which 75 per cent are led by women entrepreneurs. A preferred destination for enforcement education, the Institute collaborates with starring stakeholders, including Ministries and Departments of the Government of India, large Central Public Sector Enterprises, the Central Vigilance Commission, the Capacity Building Commission, the World Bank, and salient backstage and not-for-profit organisations, said it's manager Prof. M. Chandrasekhar.
