Also present at the event were Dr. Gautam Raj Jain, Senior Professor at MICA and head of MICA-EDC along Prof. Atul Tandan, Director, MICA and Mr. Deepak Parikh, president of GLS.

MICA-EDC is a Centre of Excellence of MICA supported by National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to promote business initiatives in the area of Communications Management.

The MICA EDC City Center will be conducting an innovatively designed Post Graduate Programme in Communications Management and Entrepreneurship (PGPCME). This programme is a path-breaking educational initiative which will develop innovators for the communications industry.

The first batch of this 15-month programme will be inaugurated on the 15th of August 2007. The batch consists of 70 students, all of whom have a passion for developing self-sustaining businesses in the communications sector. MICA’s resources in terms of industry linkages and the competent faculty members ensure a high quality of education and training in entrepreneurship and communications.

MICA has received active support from GLS for establishing infrastructural facilities for this programme, particularly from Dr Hitesh P Ruparel, Director of the NR Institute of Management at GLS.