Every world class university has coaches for various sports. In IBA all we have are student initiatives at creating the team, training it, maintaining it, getting the kits, getting enrolled in sports events and winning or losing it. IBA has really good sports superstars which can perform beyond people’s imagination given the right training. If the players could concentrate more on sharpening their playing skill rather than the management part of it. I agree we can also create sports managers out of it. Some might say that the sports society managers are ideal, but they dont really do much. The sports society managers for the past three years have come up with the sports gala mostly which has failed to generate interest as expected. The football tournament held was good. Night matches are always fun. and well there could be a foosball tournament pretty soon. but the point is although these events tend to get the general interest up and clash with the class timings are held during university hours. There is talent in IBA. i am sure we can have people for regatta or golf or tennis or squash. If we have talent why are we failing in polishing it. why create just simple business people when you can create multi-talented business people.

Mr. Danishmand used to say that sports is not necessary. we always disagreed with him. sports teaches you teamwork, teaches you leadership, teaches you how to come back from a defeat, teaches you persistence, teaches you how to develop strategies against competition on run-time. if its handled professionally.

My solution: Hire sports coaches. get people involved in Sports. be it rowing, golf, tennis, squash, cricket, football, foosball and help them. adjust attendences for them allow them to compete in international tournaments, represent both the country and the university when they can. We need to push people up. need to have people good in sports.

Design a sports complex or atleast a gym to get people into shape. Hire instructors, develop teams and let them win matches. and inform the students where IBA plays so students can be there to support the team.

what do you guys say?

The class rooms on the executive side are being renovated only. No current expansion plans. A new Library and a new, much awaited, auditorium is in plans for being built. But the current renovation has been halted . The reason being that the absence of the Director.

I don’t get the point of halting renovation just because the Director is not present in the campus.

well, guess who wants to come back into IBA. talks are underway . Pepsi used to dominate the IBA city campus till the counselling and networking society managed to get coke to hold a coke day and convert the campus to coke . i doubt pepsi would do anything like that but lets see. and there are talks of the canteen being moved upstairs and the current canteen being converted into a classroom

Well, they disturbed the classes ultimately.  They really should have delayed the renovation till summers, but guess thats when they would be in audit.

Anyways, saw the class being taken place in the prayers area, and the prayers area being shifted to the lawn in the middle. The prayers area’s name is the “Water Tank”. Seemed pretty weird that they would have to go through so much hassle in middle of the semester, disrupting classes and causing all sort of confusing.

The Research portal, Room 7 and UGL are the only functional class room in the executive block. Above the administrative wing, Lab 16 and the whole of CCS block is now flooded with students.

The executive side is off for Fridays and Saturdays and their normal classes have been stretched to 75 min to accommodate this.

The cramped room in the hallway above the dean’s office hosts a lot of offices, the lab a washroom and a ladies prayer room. It also serves as the girls common room. its really small. it has a very messy and broken look to it. and during summers it gets pretty hot inside cause theres nothing but one fan inside. No air conditioner.

Given the number of females in IBA, i think it would be wise to cater to their needs.

The thing is when you study in IBA, you basically live here. you dont go home. you eat, sleep, drink, study here.

you spend more time in IBA than you do at your home. The least IBA could do is make life a little better for us.

here’s a nice sketch up of the boys hostel building.

HOSTEL SKETCHUP

there are plans and mighty ambitious plans for the renovation of the hostel  including expansion of the mess and a floating tv lounge, wooden court and tennis lawns. … lets see how much of that really happens.

i would have loved it if they would have had a swimming pool

renovation in the executive block. i think all classes will be held from mon to thursday till like 4.15, making all classes 75 min long, giving fri and saturday off so that renovation work can be done from friday till sunday.

wonder what will happen about the evening classes?

you can also see the contractor’s office at the back of the canteen. no word on who got the contact for the job though.

the canteen got shifted from upstairs to down, apparently the standard also went down, the prices however were inversely proportional so we pay more for substandard menu and substandard food cooked under apparently unhygienic conditions.

according to the prospectus 2007 of IBA, the canteen has a capacity of 60 students and am pretty sure there are more than a hundred students there during the afternoon break.

IBA should really consider expanding the canteen and to actually call for tenders from better caterers to run the canteen.

and yea, they have the worst fries ever.

Its been heard that construction will start finally!!

the executive building rooms will be tiled and the carpet will be removed. (bad!!)  now why would you try to put tiles and make the room colder and nosier??

the construction coincide with the audit that is coming up at the end of the year. speculations are that it’s taking place after 18 years (i seriously doubt the credibility) and that since the budget assigned for construction from various sources crossed Rs 4 corer (again doubtful but believable) so they need to show that something is being constructed.

what ever they plan is so ambitious that its doubtful that it would accumulate to something that proves to be actually beneficial to anyone.?

Last semester the administration reduced the number of exams from four to three removing the optional and ever popular N-1. They increased the timing from 2.45 to 4.15 and this semester they are facing the only so logical problem of the returning MBA’s, even if they are few in numbers. So now they are out of classrooms.

Am not joking IBA is out of classrooms. It has fallen to the fallacy of inducting too many students and not doing anything to build infrastructure. We still have the same auditorium(seating capacity around 300-400), same number of classrooms (7 in old building and 12 in CCS building), same library (est capacity 70-90), same number of computer labs (3), same printers (4 for students, working condition unknown), same parking space(though they did convert the basketball court into a car park) and the strength this year is nearing 900 students for the city campus.We are inducting faculty but we seriously dont have space for them to sit.

Have heard no plans for building of any infrastructure in the near future.

I wonder how many students will get inducted this year.