IRMA Placement 2023: Highest salary at Rs 26.5 lakh; HDFC, ICICI, Flipkart among recruiters

NEW DELHI: The Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) concluded its campus placement season with 100% placements recorded. The institute saw the highest package offered at Rs 26.5 lakh. The 42nd outgoing batch of postgraduate diploma in management (rural management )- PGDM (RM) programme- took part in the campus recruitments.

The overall average package offered by recruiters has seen an increase and stands at Rs 15.5 lakh, as compared to Rs 15 lakh last year. The median CTC was recorded at Rs 15 lakh per annum with the lowest being at Rs 8.5 lakh per annum. This year, the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) industry saw the maximum number of job offers, with nearly 42% of the students being placed in this sector.

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IRMA also saw a total of 36 pre-placement offers from organisations such as Flipkart, Zetwerk Manufacturing, Godrej Agrovet Limited, ITC, PI Industries, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Tata Steel, among others. Key roles and profiles offered to the students of IRMA batch 2021-23 include management trainee, project management unit head, consultant, deputy manager, senior sales executive and credit analyst, among others.

Prominent recruiters at IRMA's placement process 2023 include Flipkart, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Limited (GCMMF), HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), SarvaGram Fincare Private Limited, Axis Bank, Reliance Retail, Vedanta CSR, Yubi, More Retail, IDFC First Bank, Mahindra Home Finance, Mother Dairy, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP, ITC Limited, Ernst & Young, PwC, Dabur, DCM Shriram, Equitas Small Finance Bank, Pixuate, The Baker’s Dozen, The Digital Fifth, Drools Pet Food Private Limited, FarMart, Khyber Agro, Amul, McDonald’s, RBI Innovation Hub and Redseer Strategy Consulting, among several others.

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While speaking about the placements, IRMA director Umakant Dask said: “The placements process of the batch of 2021-23 is indicative of newer ways that IRMA is exploring to balance aspirations of its students and the institute's mission. Our students join banks and NBFCs to develop products for rural clients, and in consulting for development and public policy verticals. We saw a growing diversity of representation from various industries which hired our students. We found new interest from fields of technology consulting, consumer durables, food processing, even as our returning recruiters from FMCG, Development and CSR segments continue to repose their faith in our students,” said Prof. Aashish Argade, Associate Dean (Placements).