Shree Chanakya Education Society’s “Indira Group of Institutes”, Pune was established in 1994, with the explicit vision to provide sustainable impetus to the corporate and entrepreneurial abilities in the youth. The realization that a robust framework of education is indispensable for the growth of global leaders, the visionary, Dr. Tarita Shankar, Chairperson, Indira Group, integrated her pursuit of excellence and articulated educational institutions, known as Indira Group of Institutes (IGI), which imbibe human excellence and demonstrate strong social values, with a single minded pursuit of developing the youth to become business leaders.

Unrelenting initiatives by the management team at Indira led to adding of multi-disciplines such as Management, Information Technology, Pharmacy, Commerce, Science, Engineering and Mass Communication to the group and growth has been as deep as it has been wide. With 12 institutions, IGI now offers education right from Kindergarten to Doctorate level studies. IGI believes in the economic independence of individuals. In this endeavor we aim to inspire our post graduate students to create a niche for themselves in the Indian Economic order first, and then compete globally. We owe our gratitude to the Indian Industry for consistently collaborating with us in this endeavor. Renowned industrialists have visited us and tremendously enhanced the morale of our students by sharing their vast knowledge and experience about entrepreneurial opportunities and foster a spirit of entrepreneurship amongst students.

Having traversed the journey of twenty-five years we have ourselves made certain significant achievements which, we are aware, are but the building blocks for achieving further heights.

• Indira is ranked amongst the top 2 B-schools in Pune, by the prestigious AIMA – IMJ
• The same journal gave us a top 30, all India ranking on the parameters of Industry interface.
• Our students have shown good academic results and have been at the level of university ranking.
• The achievements of our students have enabled them to attract some of the best corporate recruiters.
• Indira Group of Institutes and our goodwill has enabled us to establish campus agreement with Microsoft for using different software.
• Our goodwill with Microsoft was further accentuated with Microsoft conducting workshops at Indira, for train the trainer modules.
• Business India has also ranked us amongst the top 3 educational institute in Pune from 2 consecutive years
• Our Institutes have received accreditation from various certifying bodies
• Indira Institute of Management was the first management institute in Maharashtra to receive the accreditation from the NBA, New Delhi.
• We also have our audiovisual centers supported by Harvard Business School , Stanford, Pyramid Media and Tom Peters Company and we have vast collection of titles.

Chairperson's Message

The world has come to recognize India as an economic powerhouse, waiting to burst out of its shell of slow and painful progress and curtailed economic freedom for over 50 years. With liberalization the era of free market economy dawned on India in 1991. Slowly and at times haltingly, our economic reforms programme has been taken forward for the past two decades. On the way we have encountered turbulence in the form of the recession and some unhelpful economic decisions, which have slowed our progress towards Super Power status. One believes that we will once again be able to press forward in the coming years and command our place on the world’s stage as a star player. Indians are among the most talented in terms of entrepreneurial abilities and the large number of Indians occupying stellar roles in the world’s best known corporate is enough indication of this. Our country is going to need thousands of brilliant minds to shape our future as the justifiable leaders in the race to development.

In order to encourage talent to come to the fore, we need to provide the right motivation through cutting edge knowledge from reputed and best in class organizations. Indira College of Commerce and Science is among the top colleges that makes talent bloom through its holistic programme of academic, physical, sports, spiritual and extra and co-curricular activities that are designed to expose the brilliance that is within its students.

I welcome you therefore to join the ICACS and become part of a winning group of students, faculty, staff and educationists who can together take India to its ultimate aim of being among the top three economically advanced nations of the world by 2020.

CEO’s Message

This philosophy is deeply entrenched in the soul of Indira Group of Institutes and our faculty team put their heart and soul together to create a better world and better future.

Being in the field of education for close to 30 years, we, at IGI, have always believed that students' learning and growth are not confined to classroom and academic experience. At IGI, students at all the levels are always exposed to carefully throughout diversified extra-curricular and co-curricular activities. We are seized of the fact that today's students are tomorrow's citizens. Thus, we leave no stone unturned in broadening their thinking horizons and inculcating the right values in the young mind which not only make them value centred leaders but also great citizens of our great nation with global outlook.

Our efforts of holistic education have further been realigned with the vision and mission of National Education Policy 2020. We have incorporated multi-disciplinary courses like performing arts, history, foreign language, culinary skills, wellness and yoga to name a few in all our UG and PG programs which go a long way in preparing our students to successfully face the challenges of the new century.

Our Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) ensures that students get to develop their thinking and problem solving skills by participating in experiential learning and do it yourself (DIY) activities. Our students not only excel in their chosen field but they also stand out in public life. At IGI, we are conscious of the unique learning needs of the new generation students. Therefore, at UG and PG level, we allow them to choose subjects and modules based on their interests and career needs which are evaluated and are part of consolidated mark sheets.

Thousands of our successful alumni spread throughout the world bear testimony to our value based holistic learning and following the ideals of academic excellence. We stay ever committed to reinvent our teaching learning processes in line with the needs of public life and career aspirations of the students.

I welcome you to Indira to experience a whole new refreshing journey of education to empowerment.