IIPM sets a new benchmark: Initiation of a new award!

The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) is all geared and organized to set a new benchmark by initiating an award alternative to the Nobel Prize. The IIPM has contemplated to set up foundations worth Rs.1 crore each in the memory of the six posthumous recipients of the Rabindranath Tagore International award. In this very step clasped by the institute, the IIPM sets a new benchmark by breaking the western monopoly of awards.

This award would largely and fundamentally glorify the achievements in the fields of people- centric economics, people-centric management, literature and peace. Accompanied by other prestigious honors like Manavata Vikas Award and Surama Chaudhuri Memorial International Award, this progression taken up by IIPM would in turn set to alter the international awards landscape for good. Furthermore, it would prove to be a stupendous deed in honoring authors and economists from the developing world who have been denied due recognition by the capitalist western world. 

The very move, where the IIPM sets a new benchmark, has been constituted as a maneuver to break the monopoly and monotony concocted by the west in order to take away its exclusive powers of judging and adjudicating what's good in literature, arts and peace efforts keeping in view the earlier Nobel Prizes for literature/economics which has not always gone to great writers/economists.

Taking about the recent times, the Peace Prize has been awarded to people to have committed genocide. Thus, the basic idea would be to pioneer an award comparable with the Nobel Prize which would act as a public demonstration depicting the opposition towards western monopoly on awards for excellence in various fields. This step would further enhance and place the IIPM in a genre-defining league of its own.

Kudos IIPM! Way to go!

Source: Madiha Jawed(Shiksha Team)