PGDBM at DINA institute, pune not equal to mba-equivalent pgdiploma

A criminal complaint has been filed by second year students of the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDBM) course at DINA Institute of Hotel and Business Management (DINA), Pune.

This has brought to light certain issues:

Though it sounds like the MBA-equivalent post-graduate diploma awarded by autonomous institutions such as the Indian institutes of Management (IIMs) or SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, this is not at all an equivalent.

Because for one, University of Pune's PGDBM will not enable you to pursue higher doctoral studies. Moreover, this course has relaxed eligibility criteria which even allow a class XII failed student to pursue it.

As of now, senior DINA officials including four members of the family backing the institute have been named in the complaint which charges the officials with the offences of cheating and forgery. The 17 student complainants alleged that the institute officials cheated them by misrepresenting the PGDBM as a fulltime MBA

DINA has also been accused in a parallel controversy over the fees charged for PGDBM. While other institutes such as Suryadatta Institute of Management and Information Research, Pune charges Rs 50,000 and Prestige College of Management and Technology charges Rs 40,000 for two years, DINA charges Rs 2.75 lakh for the same duration.

This matter was brought up in a University meeting, where as per a Mid-Day Pune report, Mr Oberoi nearly assaulted the university's Dean of Management Department Mr CM Chitale. As of now, the University's Vice Chancellor Narendra Jadhav has instituted an enquiry committee to investigate the cheating in fees. equivalent degree. Reacting to the development, DINA's Executive Director Ajit Kumar Oberoi along with five other officials (including family members) named in the case filed a plea for anticipatory bail on March 4, 2009, which was rejected by a Pune sessions court on March 23.