Training of personnel, both technical and commercial, is very essential for the successful operation of any industry. There was, however, no organised attempt in India to train personnel for the commercial operations of shipping. Persons seeking professional qualifications in shipbroking used to appear for examinations conducted annually by foreign institutions. Thus there was a dire need for an Indian Institution for training of personnel on commercial aspects and management of shipping particularly in the wake of expansion of Indian Merchant Marine and Shipping activities in India. The National Shipping Board which is a high level advisory body set up under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 recommended to the Government of India for the establishment of an autonomous institution for training personnel and conducting examinations on the commercial aspects of shipping and for helping the shipping industry by undertaking necessary research into various problems facing the industry. The Government accepted this recommendation. Precisely to fill up this need, an Institute of Shipping named after late Shri Narottam Morarjee in recognition of his great pioneering contributions to Indian shipping was established on 3rd January, 1969 under the joint auspices of the Government of India and the Indian Shipping Industry. The Institute is registered under the Societies Registration Act as well as under the Bombay Public Trust Act. The main objectives and purposes of the Institute are: To encourage, promote and assist the study of shipping business in all aspects. To initiate, foster and maintain investigation and research into the best means and methods, practices of conducting shipping business, the problems involved and their most satisfactory solutions and in particular to study the economics of operation in the various international trade routes and India's share in the different trades. - To extend, increase and disseminate knowledge and exchange information and ideas in regard to all questions connected with shipping and to assist and further in all practicable ways the development and improvements of shipping industry in the national interest.
- To create and provide facilities for education in commercial, technical and other aspects of shipping business and all other allied subjects and to take all steps for spread of shipping knowledge and to find and support establishments for this purpose.
- To devise and impose means for testing the qualifications of candidates for admission to membership of the Institute by examination or by any other actual or practical tests and to grant certificates of qualifications/diploma to successful candidates.
- To exercise professional supervision over the members of the Institute and other members of the profession and to frame and establish rules for observance in matters pertaining to professional practices.
- To hold conferences, meetings, seminars, refresher courses for discussion of shipping business in all its phases and for delivery of lectures and to collect, collate and publish information of service/interest to members of the profession.
To establish/develop relations with shipping organisations in other countries and in international shipping organisations and to seek affiliations with other educational/social organisations in shipping.
Diploma in Shipping Management: The Institute conducts various courses of studies leading to the Diploma in Shipping Management - First Year and Final Year Admissions: - Admission to the Studentship for Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management - First Year, is open to all those who are not less than 20 years in age having a degree in Arts, Commerce, Science, Law or in any other faculty.
- Admission for all the courses would be open from 15th March every year.
- Admission to the coaching classes would be given on first come first serve basis and it would be closed as soon as the available 65 seats are filled up. However, persons seeking admission to the correspondence courses can register themselves upto 31st August in order to take up the examinations scheduled in the following March.
Distance Education: The distance education programme aims at preparing the up-country candidates for the examination by providing them necessary study materials through correspondence courses. Any candidate who wishes to take up any of the Institute examinations would have to compulsorily attend the coaching classes or undergo the prescribed correspondence courses. Those who are admitted to the classes should have put in at least 75% attendance in the classes for each year before they are allowed to take up the annual examinations. Those who undergo correspondence courses should have answered at least 2/3rd of the model test papers included in the course of study in order to be eligible for admission to the annual examinations. Examinations: Examinations are normally held in the first fortnight of March every year at Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Cochin, Vasco-da-Gama, Ahmedabad, Gandhidham and any other cities and centres in India or abroad wherever a minimum of 10 candidates opt to take up the examination.
Each subject for the examination carries 100 marks and the candidates should secure a minimum of 50% of the marks in each subject for passing the examinations. Contact Details: 76,Jolly Maker Chambers No.2,
7th Floor,
Nariman Point,
Mumbai - 400021,
India. Phone: (91-22) 22024110 / 22813280 E-Mail: nmis@vsnl.com Source: www.nmis.net Want to get listed in our Featured Education Section? Mail us at info@shippingplatform.com or call us at +91-22-25690999 for more information.
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