Prin. L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Bangalore (popularly known as WeSchool) has been conferred with the B-School of the Year Award by Bangalore Management Association (BMA). The award was presented for academic excellence and industry orientation in a ceremony wherein BMA celebrated its Member Day & 62nd Anniversary Awards at Capitol Hotel, Bangalore. Justice Shivraj V Patil was the Chief Guest on the occasion.
Anil Rao Paila, Dean and Director of Welingkar, Bangalore campus, along with his faculty team received the award for the Best Management Institute. WeSchool, Bangalore under his leadership is the youngest campus to have received the coveted NBA, AIU, and SAQS Accreditations. The award aims to encourage and reward excellence in management education.
The uniqueness of Welingkar, Bangalore lies in its strong industry orientation and programs in Business Design & Innovation and E-Business which are highly valued by the students and working executives. The institute has brought out several industry-institute connect initiatives such as We Cafe, HR Showcase and other structured initiatives to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship on the campus by setting up an Innovation Lab, a Prototype lab, a Case Centre and Research Centre to name a few. It has achieved path breaking customized Industry Outreach programs engaging companies like Infosys, Robert Bosch, Bicon, Titan, EnY, DELL to name a few. The institute’s faculty finds meritorious representation on the boards of NHRDN, CII, BMA, FICCI, Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS), making contribution to Management Education. Professor Uday Salunkhe, Group Director - Welingkar congratulated his faculty team and students for the award.
Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research has two campuses in the country, one in Mumbai and the second one in Bengaluru. The Mumbai campus came into existence in 1977. It comes under the aegis of S P Mandali Trust.
Some of the other awardees included Narayan Murthy, co-founder, Infosys who was conferred the BMA Lifetime Achievement award Rajini Mishra, Chief General Manager, State Bank of India, collected the Bank of the Year Award, and KN Tilak Kumar, Editor, Deccan Herald received the Editor of the Year Award, among several others.