IIHMCA Hyderabad

Pramod Chauhan is the Principal of the Indian Institute of Hotel Management and Culinary Arts, Hyderabad. He got exposure to teaching for a long time. He helps the young generation understand the course. He guides students who are seeking employment in the hospitality industry.

What is it that has led you to the education sector? 

“The ability to transfer knowledge and motivate youth to strengthen the segment of hospitality”

Primarily during my course of operations and function experience in the industry, I was chosen on few occasions as a departmental trainer which exposed me to a concept called Transfer of Knowledge, which excited me a lot, and that included teaching and training, mentoring, and coaching. Since these were some of the inherent elements in me, I thought coming back to the industry was a good thing for me. I think people in human resources altogether made me think that I can deliver better as a teacher.

What is your philosophy of leadership? How do you describe your leadership style? 

“Confident decorum with the smooth execution of decisions in the institute”

Even though I function as a principal I consider myself primarily as a teacher and it’s a good question because nobody talks about leadership when talking to a teacher. I would say for me, knowledge is one key factor for the person to be confident to execute systems. So knowledge base and also the good transfer of knowledge skills are the two pillars of a leader as a teacher. The pull factors are improving the knowledge base and who's is functioning as a teacher or principal can consider himself or herself in the same manner. 

The education system in India and other foreign countries are structured very differently. I would like to know, what an inbound student can learn by studying here?

“Hospitality serves every culture with the same passion and learning and has depicted a similar value everywhere”

 I would like to disagree a little bit with your question, that the international institutes or the universities have the better syllabus and a different structure. The syllabuses are made according to the time frame available for that to be delivered. The cultural exposure of this type of tradition out there also would influence the creation of a syllabus. Indian institutes or even the universities in India are much more advanced and they get into deeper issues of operational cruxes in a typical hospital industry. And here I do not want to go back without telling that all over the word International hotels, chains, the best-managed hotels managed by Indian nationals do great revenues and produce a better bottom line.

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How does the curriculum at IIHMCA ensure that it is a best practice in hospitality education?

“Involving every way to incur practical learning of hospitality in academic structure”

At IIHMCA, we believe in going beyond the syllabus. The syllabus offered in most of the universities pertains to operations and management. At IIHMCA apart from the syllabus, we conduct special classes and also ensure that the students attend these classes. We grade the students as per their communication skills, inherent abilities, capabilities, talents, guide, and help them to be ready to commence their careers. Students are distributed to different faculties for mentoring. We do hire consultants who create special modules after analyzing our students with need parameters and identify the key performance areas and develop them. 

What is the USP of IIHMCA?

“Placements to secure the career of the students associated with the institute”

Apart from the quality of education, the USP of IIHMCA is certainly its excellent placement achievements. Over the past 20 years, our records show the kind of placements our students have attained in terms of the quality of the organizations and the numbers. 

What is the message of the aspiring students?

“Hard work and passion towards your career is the key to success”

My only message is hard work, the attitude of sacrifice and discipline. Love for creativity, being innovative, and selling oneself. 

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