Educational Institutions Opportunities in Lavasa

Lavasa is a private city that is spread over seven hills and around 21 KMs of lake, which is almost the size of Paris, managed to attract over 750,000 in 2013 and a number of international hotel chains to establish their businesses. Many educational institutions that are highly successful elsewhere in India and across the world are also expected to start a branch and set up their campus in Lavasa in coming years. International curriculum are the pathway to learning culture, art and whole new education. Children and students are exposed to global culture and those aspects help them to be a global citizen with better intelligence. Some of the best schools and universities in the world with excellent past record are expected to start a branch of their own in Lavasa.

Some of the institutions and universities that have started to have a branch in or near Lavasa include, Mumbai-based Christ Institute of Management which has started its campus operations at Lavasa City near Pune. The institute will offer two-year full-time PGDM courses with specialisation in Finance and Marketing from this June at the new campus. There are several other educational tie-ups associated with Lavasa City which include AOC, UK, Pearson, Little Millennium, UKIBC, Biomimicry Guild USA, City & Guilds, Great India, University of Northampton, Christel House, Doon Public School, Symbiosis University Pune, Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne and Educomp

How the government is facilitating and promoting in attracting tourism as well as businesses is something of a remarkable study and observation. The government starting in June has said that it will accord top priority to granting environmental clearance to projects in defense and public sector, and that there is no contradiction between the concepts of development and environment protection, by assuring the prospective incoming businesses as well as inhabitants of the positivity the nature and environment is expected to ooze out and maintain standard. In addition to that the government of Maharashtra has been relentlessly assuring that it is following the concept and living of environment and development, and not environment versus development, by assuring that whoever is going to enroll for learning and studying in Lavasa will have a best time of schooling. And lastly as the government is motivating the Environment ministry to reported the short-listed 20-odd proposals which have crossed hurdles of appraisal committee and to get the clearance as early as end of this month.

While these developments are taking place, the focus is invested on attracting a large number of visitors as well. And since the work is being done to improve the facilities and overall operation of the city, the expected results are such as that the visitor numbers are estimated to rise to two million within the next two years with the advent of international theme park and the accommodation inventory that will able to construct and reach 2,000 rooms. With the growing education focus, the student population is expected to reach 2,000 within the next three to four years. According to Fr. K J Varghese, Director of CIM Lavasa, CIM is looking forward to establish and improve the overall teaching experiences with simulation, role plays and blended learning techniques and also include personal mentoring, corporate interface, industry visits and live projects. The opportunities for education and aspect of introducing Lavasa to higher, vibrant and wide variety of school and colleges education is seemingly quite vast and hopefully it is expected to be one of the best places of center for learning in near future and have students prosper in excellence.

The article is written Dr. Fr. Varghese K.J, Director, Cim Lavasa. Christ Institute of Management (Cim) one of the prominent Pgdm college in Pune