BANGALORE: Three students from top Indian Institutes of Management are taking the road less traveled unto the part of consultancy services while they are pursing college long before they were approached by McKinseys and BCGs with fat pay packets. Gradually the Government and the private sector are ever keener on the services of student consulting clubs that take place at IIM-Bangalore, IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Calcutta, reports ET.

Over the years, many student members of India's largest student consulting body, the IIM-A's Forum for Industry Interaction (FII), have taken up 84 projects from what was first 52 the previous year. Some of these projects included starting up a Hindi mobile app for one of India’s prime ecommerce companies. They set up fresh avenues that pertained to business travel and adventure sports for the aviation industry. They attempt to bring up an online marketplace for products that are produced by self-help groups as well as assisting in the expansion of ecofriendly startup to obtain bigger customer reach.

Arijit Kumar Gorai, head of IIMC's consulting club"Our students shall also be accompanying the firm while they pitch to potential investors. We cannot disclose the name of the companies, but we are working with new sectors like ecommerce".

Students of consulting clubs at IIMs along with some help from faculty members they’re regularly working on live projects.  IIM-C and IIM-B making allowance for working side by as well as administrating the consulting clubs of IITs and the IIMs freshers. At IIM-A, over 400 students giving consultancy services from FII to well established NGOs, government organizations, corporations and startups. The consulting club students At IIM-C are also working on a project with the assistance of a firm that aims at transformation rural India with the hand of digital services.

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