Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna

Project Management End-Term

Time: 120 min

Government of India has launched Skill India Mission campaign. In its inaugural function, it is
confirmed that conventional systems of offering new skillsets are failing to cope with the
demand to train as many people as possible in survival skills in a world where formal
employment is becoming more and scarcer. There is a strong recommendation to all the
participating States attending the event that they should try distance education to develop
vocational skills for people. The following are some of the motivations raised at the
inaugural function to pursue skilling India programme through the DE (Distance Education)
mode:

 If the learners are already in a job, they do not have to leave the job (losing a salary)
in order to do studies.
 What the learner studies has a direct bearing on career prospects, and that makes
the study more meaningful and holistic.
 There is no worry about failing to get a vacancy as happens in conventional schools.
Normally there is no question of classes being full.
 It is not necessary to stick to specific hours of study.
 When studying at home the learner gets the support of family members.
 Distance education fees are comparatively lower.

The head of your institution who attended the inaugural event comes back inspired by the
idea. For some time the distance education institution you work for has been receiving
requests to offer courses in security management, tourism and hospitality, beauty therapy,
management of a lodge, and cell phone repair. The institution has not been able to respond
to the requests because there are no practical workshops and equipment to enable those
doing the course to do practical work.
The head calls a meeting to brainstorm ways of offering technical subjects by distance. You
are among the employees who suggest that it is possible to get experts to write the theory
of the proposed courses and cast it in DE format. This idea is very welcome, but it does not
solve the issue of practical work. One member observes that in the community, and in the
different towns in any country there are security companies, hotels, lodges, hair and beauty
salons, cell phone repair shops that do practical work. She goes on to suggest that the
College could develop strategic alliances by forming partnerships with those companies to
get practical works for those who would be enrolled in the courses.
Two days later, the head of the institution invites you to his office and appoints you to
manage the project. He specifically wants you to establish: the popularity of the courses
discussed earlier; the extent to which companies are prepared to take learners who have
done theory to do practical works with them; and find out whether there are people in the
community who are qualified to write study materials in the areas identified. You should
recommend a team and work out a budget for this project to be completed in three months
before the major decision of developing the courses is made.

Explain what you would do regarding the following: (all questions carry equal marks)
1. the main tasks that make up the project; (show this only in Ms-Project file)
2. total budget needed to carry out the study is your Roll number, for example, 120015;
(show this only in Ms-Project file)
 3. show the status of your proposed project exactly on 30th day (in terms of project
completion and budget exhausted) – (show this only in Ms-Project file and write final
figures on A4 sheet also);
4. how you are going to manage the stakeholders (write answer on A4 sheet);
5. the possible challenges you anticipate and how you are going to address them when
they arise (write answer on A4 sheet)

Submission guidelines
Please write all your text on one A4 sheet only (both sides may be used). No additional
sheet of paper should be used.
Write your ROLL and NAME first before writing answers. Take image of the page(s) and save
it in your ROLL number (Sample File Name: 120015).
Ms-Project file name MUST be your ROLL number like as: (Sample File Name: 120015)
Send BOTH these files as attachments to pmassignments.cimp@gmail.com before closing
time. Write your ROLL also in the SUBJECT LINE of mail (e.g. 120015). Do not write anything
in the BODY of your mail. While sending must mark a copy to your own mail also. It will
confirm delivery of your mail.
Any deviation from the submission guidelines would attract a penalty from scores obtained.