Introduction

IIM Raipur is pleased to announce the launching the ‘Nurturing Future Leadership Program Batch -4, a prestigious capacity building initiative under the aegis of the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Program (MMTTP), of the Ministry of Education (MoE, Govt. of India (GoI).

The world of academia calls upon academics to deploy skillsets best honed with focus and solitude. Intellectual rigor, convergent thinking, deep focus, and single-minded pursuit of academic excellence are sine qua non for meaningful progress through the academic echelons. These well-honed cognitive skills hold the academics in good stead through their journey in the rigorous world of academia.

Administrative responsibilities, however, require the erstwhile academics to function in roles that need a different skill set. As heads of teams or institutions, academic administrators must deal with scores of people and rapidly move across varied tasks quite far from their specific areas of expertise. In addition to academic excellence and integrity, this role now requires an arsenal of skills such as teamwork, emotional intelligence, negotiation, and leadership skills for leading self and others to organizational excellence.

Besides administrative acumen, these positions also call for familiarity with the statutory and regulatory requirements as well as government processes on procurement and general financial rules (GFR). An administrator is expected to be familiar with the intricacies of recruitment processes, tendering and contracting, judicial matters and litigation, RTI, and POSH.

The need to bridge this gap for the academic administrator has been appreciated for some time. Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme is a concerted effort to equip the potential academic administrator with the appropriate skill set for this new role.

The Centre for Public Management, IIM Raipur has, therefore, curated this programme based on the following three pillars:

1. Leading self.
2. Nurturing others and institution building.
3. Administrative skills.

Target Audience

Regular/ permanent faculty at recognised Universities/Institutes

Objective of the Program

• To build an ecosystem to inculcate leadership skills in faculty members.
• To be a broad-based leadership development programme.
• To expand the pool of potential leaders for leadership positions.
• To prepare faculty for effective collective decision-making.
• Shared governance, developing initiatives, and problem-solving.
• Enabling institute administration to assess leadership quality through this programme.

Duration and Venue

The proposed date for the five-day residential Programme is 14th – 18th July 2025, at IIM Raipur.

Nominations

Public-funded HEIs, including private universities/institutes, may nominate two Regular/permanent faculty. The number of participants is limited to 40 in the forth batch of nurturing future leadership programme. Nominations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Mode of Sending Nominations

Successful submission of the Nurturing Future Leadership Programme (NFLP) application on the MMTTP portal: https://mmc.ugc.ac.in/NFLP/NHome

Assessment and Certification

Upon successfully completing the programme, the participant shall be awarded a certificate by IIM Raipur, under the aegis of the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme (MMTTP).