Competency of IBRAD School in conducting courses on BBA (NRM), Sustainable Development, Human Development

• IBRAD, established in the year 1985, the only ISO 9001:2000 certified organisation in the country conducting action research and training on human development and sustainable development, Joint Forest Management for senior level IFS officers since 1991.
• The professionals and faculties of IBRAD have already conducted four international trainings on ‘Systemic Approach to Sustainable Joint Forest Management’ in its institute at Kharagpur/Kolkata.
• The faculty of IBRAD have also been invited in foreign universities such as University of Wales, Manchester, Helsinki, Indonesia, China to conduct similar courses, designed by IBRAD.
• IBRAD has been awarded prestigious assignment from different state governments and Government of India related to subjects like Natural Resource Management, Sustainable Development, Human Development. Some of them are :
• Assessment of NRM courses and developing a model curriculum for post graduate courses on NRM (Ministry of HRD, Government of India)
• IFS officers courses at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun, and SFS College, Coimbatore
• National programme: Assessment of effectiveness of Joint Forest Management Committees in India (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India)
• Developing Participatory Monitoring Indicators for the Assessment of Joint Forest Management (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India)
• Developing a National Programme on water conservation (JALTARANG) by Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India
• National Coordinator of the programme - Man and Nature: Trust Relationship and Action (MANTRA) (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India)
• Conducting Distance Learning Course on Natural Resource Management with interactive centres in different states of India
• Human Development Project (UNDP Project) on Action Research and Intervention by Development and Planning Department, Government of West Bengal
• Facilitating the process of design and implementation of Karnataka Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Assessment Project sponsored by JBIC
• Initiating three months certificate course on Natural Resource Management to develop professionals in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Forest Academy
• Acting in collaboration with different international and national networks on JFM, NRM, sustainable development like FTPP FAO, NNFP USA
• Assigned to organise national workshop on standardisation of the methods and approaches for evaluation of JFMCs by NAEB, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India
• Appointed as Training Advisor for Andhra Pradesh Community Forest Management Project to develop training strategy and it’s implementation for the state sponsored by World Bank
• Phd programme: Number of Phd thesis based on IBRAD’s concept and project areas. IBRAD faculty has supervised Phd students and reviewed and examined Phd thesis.
• Number of books, research papers and consultancy report published in different journals and also by this institute related to the topic such as Joint Forest Management, Sustainable Development, NRM, Human Development
• Above all Government of West Bengal has given a piece of three acres of land on VIP road, Kestopur Bus stoppage at Prafulla Kannan, Kolkata – 700101, The infrastructure including the classroom, Computer, laboratory, library and other facilities will be ready by July 2007 as per the requirement of AICTE for any MBA / MCA courses.
• The academic advisory committee has been formed from the leading professionals from Government, IIT, IIM and other academic fields.
• The institute has received endowment as grant from the Ford Foundation of nearly rupees three crores in fixed deposit.