Armed with India’s best professional training, it’s hard stopping social managers from transforming NGOs.

It’s much more than engineering or management studies. IIT and IIM education is also training for the mind. It makes one learn how to understand and analyse complex situations, identify key variables and alternative courses of action to improve things, and implement them. This may lead to profit in case of business or enable a number of people overcome poverty as in the case development,” says Vijay Mahajan, CEO, Basix, a livelihood promotion institution.

Mahajan has been in the voluntary sector since 1983. He has learnt that development is a complex process and requires the best minds to work at all levels – from policy formulation to programme design to implementation. These are attributes that come handy after a professional management course. Irrespective of the fact that the professional has renounced the corporate world ages ago, his skills attained at country’s premier professional institute help him even today.