Highlights-
- IIM Indore bags silver for Best CSR and Sustainability Initiatives.
- IIM Indore won the award at the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and Business Graduates Association (BGA) Excellence Awards.
- It competed against 290 certified business schools in London.
IIM Indore has won silver in the Best CSR and Sustainability Initiatives Category at the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and Business Graduates Association (BGA) Excellence Awards.
IIM Indore was shortlisted among the top seven schools in this category and received the Silver award during the award event on January 21 in London, where it competed against 290 certified business schools.
Promotes sustainable future
The Best CSR and Sustainability Initiative award recognises business schools that are leading the charge to build a more sustainable future, teach students about social values, and make a tangible and verifiable difference. It provides an opportunity for schools to showcase their innovative and unique CSR and sustainability initiatives on a global scale.
Only Indian business school to be shortlisted
For its environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives, the institute was awarded Silver. The awards were given out in ten different categories. In this category, IIM Indore is the only Indian business school that has been shortlisted. It is one of three business schools in the country that has been shortlisted for the Excellence Awards 2022.
IIM Indore has also recently received the Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education’s One District One Green Champion Award, making it the cleanest and greenest educational institute in the district.
Promotes environmental friendly initiatives
In the IIM Indore campus, Solar panels have been installed on various buildings throughout the 193-acre campus, lowering electricity use. It uses kitchen waste to make manure on campus, adhering to the no-kitchen-waste policy.
This manure is then utilized to cultivate vegetables and fruits in the campus’s Organic Garden. The Institute has a rain-harvesting system in place to collect wastewater and utilize it for things like gardening and cleaning.
Sanjeevani, IIM Indore’s Horticulture Cell, produces plants and medications that are provided to the destitute and patients in surrounding hospitals. In addition, the Institute shelters over 35 stray dogs, maintains their adequate feeding and health, and takes initiatives for their adoption.
