An entrepreneur who turned to politics, Falguni Rajput, 39, felt she wasn’t getting anywhere despite spending five years as a treasurer in the women’s wing of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Vasai-Virar, Maharashtra. Then she found out about a course at IIM-Bangalore promising to churn out “professional politicians” in three months.
Rajput is enrolled there now with 25 other women from across India to become a trained, certified politician. “The programme will empower aspiring women politicians with the skills needed to break new ground in politics,” said Rajeev Gowda, a professor of economics & social sciences and chairman of the Centre for Public Policy who is spearheading the course. “It is about enhancing them in new dimensions that are not normally associated with Indian politics.”
Read more at The Indian Express, published 20 September 2012.
An entrepreneur who turned to politics, Falguni Rajput, 39, felt she wasn’t getting anywhere despite spending five years as a treasurer in the women’s wing of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Vasai-Virar, Maharashtra. Then she found out about a course at IIM-Bangalore promising to churn out “professional politicians” in three months.
Rajput is enrolled there now with 25 other women from across India to become a trained, certified politician. “The programme will empower aspiring women politicians with the skills needed to break new ground in politics,” said Rajeev Gowda, a professor of economics & social sciences and chairman of the Centre for Public Policy who is spearheading the course. “It is about enhancing them in new dimensions that are not normally associated with Indian politics.”
Read more at The Indian Express, published 20 September 2012.