IIM Calcutta announces launch of EPLM programme with Hughes Global Education India

The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) has announced the successful launch of its Executive Programme in Leadership and Management (EPLM). Delivered over the Hughes Interactive Onsite Learning platform by the eminent faculty of IIM Calcutta, this programme offers working executives comprehensive learning through lectures and real world case studies including addresses by senior executives from the corporate world. The programme is designed to equip managers and professionals with diverse perspectives, leadership styles, and the skills required to lead their organizations in liberalized and deregulated business environments.

The unique Hughes Interactive Onsite Learning Platform, offered by Hughes Global Education India (HGEIL), provides a live, interactive capability where participants in any part of the country can listen and discuss questions directly with IIM Calcutta. Partho Banerjee, President and Managing Director of Hughes Communications India, Ltd. (HCIL), parent company of HGEIL said, “We are confident that working executives across the country will benefit from the interactive classroom sessions provided by the Hughes Interactive Onsite Learning Platform.”

To date, more than 25,000 students have used the Hughes Interactive Onsite Learning Platform in 100 classrooms in 50 cities spread across the country and participated in courses by leading academic institutes to improve their skills and move up the career ladder within their organizations. HGEIL is India’s leading provider of broadband networks and a majority owned subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes).

HGEIL provides the Hughes Interactive Onsite Learning platform, for satellite-based education and training for working professionals/students. Delivered over a live, interactive, real-time, two-way video, voice and data platform, it is available today in 155 classrooms in 75 cities. HGEIL has redefined the next generation of education, i.e. the real-time Interactive Onsite Learning platform. Started in 2001 and the first of its kind in India, this platform seamlessly integrates the strengths of traditional methods of education—classroom teaching—with the latest in technology.