HCM RIPA- CMS

The Centre for Management Studies (CMS), an autonomous and integral part of the HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, was established during 1982 - the Silver Jubilee Year of the Institute. The lack of training facilities in the area of management, particularly for the public sector personnel in the State, was greatly felt since a long time. The Centre for Management Studies is specially designed to cater to such need.

Objectives

	To assist, collaborate and organize training programmes in various management systems, particularly in the field of industrial management.
	To promote the study of management systems and practices with a view to expand the frontiers of knowledge in this field.
	To undertake or to help research studies in management systems.
	To render professional assistance in the field of management to individuals and organizations.
	To help in the growth of professionalism in the area of management systems.
	To undertake such other activities and to create such other structures, institutions and organizations as may be found essential or conducive to the better realization of the above mentioned aims and objectives.

Functions

Apart from providing consultancy services to individuals and organizations on various management problems, the Centre for Management Studies is presently organizing training programmes in the following areas:

	Financial Management
	Organizational Behaviour and Organizational Development
	Industrial Relations and Personnel Management
	Operations Research and Systems Analysis
	Enterprise Management
	Management Development and Executive Development

Since its inception, the CMS has conducted 72 training programmes in all. Some of the important programmes held under the auspices of the CMS are:

	Management in Government
	Seminar on Water Management
	Advance Financial Management
	Executive Development Programme
	Programme on Hospital Administration
	Programme on Public Distribution System
	Development Policy Analysis and Investment Decision
	International Conference on Women Development
	Project Formulation in Cooperative Sector
	Japanese Management Programme
	Enterprise Management Programme
	Time Management Programme
	National Seminar on Marketing of Agricultural Products
	Programme on Tribal Development Administration
	Health Management and Administration Programme

	Orientation Programme on Bio-Gas

	Foundational Course on Managerial Effectiveness

	Seminar on Alternative Sources of Energy
	MIS and Computer Programme
	Command Area Development Programme

ICOMP Workshops on:

	Issues and Problems of Women Executives
	Issues and Problems of Women in Clerical Services
	Women in Medicine: Issues and Problems of Doctors
	Women in Para-Medical Services: Some Issues
	Women in Educational Services: Some Issues

The HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration and the Centre for Management Studies, in fact, perform a complimentary role in the field of training. The Centre is utilizing liberally and extensively faculty expertise of the HCM RIPA.

The financial resources of the CMS are:

	Interest on fixed deposits
	Training charges from member institutions
	Overhead charges on Government of India sponsored programmes
	Interest on saving bank account

Due to its location at the HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, the CMS generally utilizes the infrastructural facilities already created at the Institute. However, it has also supplemented them further from its own resources.

Research and Publications

The CMS undertakes research on problems of management systems. Pending the consultancies in finalization stage, so far, following research projects have been completed:

	Beneficiaries under Integrated Rural Development Programmes in Sikar District
	Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Development Federation : Implementation of the Programme in the State and its Bottlenecks
	Alternative Sources of Energies for Rural Development Programmes (a publication)
	Public Distribution System in Rajasthan (a publication)