The Shree Chanakya Education Society (SCES) was established in February 1994, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Tarita Shankar, with the aim of providing top quality post-graduate education in the fields of Business Management, International Business and Information Technology. By consistently providing quality education over the past few decades, institutes at Indira Group is now considered as one of the best institutes in Pune. At a time when India was struggling to put its economy back on its feet, after the nation having pawned the “family jewels” just to keep afloat, Dr. Tarita Shankar sensed that education too would have to become more broad based and more vocational in nature if India was to stand up to the world competition in quality and price for its products, The then Finance Minister had prescribed for the economy and so, in 1994, began a saga of growth and quality in education; a story that is just reaching its zenith with 13 full fledged Institutes registering a strong presence on Pune’s educational horizon. Since inception, the Institutes managed by SCES, have maintained high academic standards and have successfully provided trained manpower to the industrial and services sector of the country. These institutes are now listed amongst the top colleges not just in Pune, but also in Maharashtra and India. With a modest strength of 60 students pursuing a single course, SCES has grown steadily and today boasts of 13 Institutes, having more than 18000 students from all over India pursuing multi-disciplinary, graduate & post-graduate programs. The objective of the institute is providing ‘Management education in a corporate environment’, has been possible due to the sincere and dedicated efforts of the members of SCES, who have invaluable experience in varied areas like academics, industry, service and social-world.
Having traversed the journey of thirty years we have ourselves made certain significant achievements which are the building blocks for achieving further heights.
- Indira is ranked amongst the top 2 B-schools in Pune, by the prestigious AIMA – IMJ
- The same journal gave us a top 30, all India ranking on the parameters of Industry interface.
- Our students have shown good academic results and have been at the level of university ranking.
- The achievements of our students have enabled them to attract some of the best corporate recruiters.
- Indira Group of Institutes’ has campus agreement with leading corporations such as Microsoft, LinkedIn for using different software.
- Our goodwill with Microsoft was further accentuated with Microsoft conducting workshops at Indira, for train the trainer modules.
- IGI has MOUs with various Industries and companies for placements, internships, students’ training, faculty development and continuous improvement.
- Business India has also ranked IGI amongst the top 3 educational institute in Pune from 2 consecutive years.
- Our Institutes have received accreditation from various certifying bodies
- Majority institutions of IGI are accredited by accreditation agencies such as NBA, NAAC and the same is testament of the quality that IGI institutes deliver.
IGI also has audiovisual centers supported by Harvard Business School, Stanford, Pyramid Media and Tom Peters Company and has vast collection of titles.
Board of Trustees
Managing Committee Members/Trustees of ‘Shree Chanakya Education Society’
Smt. Sarita Shankar Wakalkar
President
Mr. Sandeep Prabhakar Gaekwad
Vice - President
Dr. Tarita Shankar
Chairperson & Chief Mentor
Mr. Shaan Aditya Mehendale
Trustee Member
Mr. Pilaji Sursingh Jadhavrao
Treasurer
Mr. Vasant Maruti Maske
Trustee Member
Mr. Sahil Aditya Mehendale
Joint Secretary
