SPPU to start Pune’s first postgraduate diploma course in temple management

It aims to equip students with precocious skills and in-depth cognition of the economic, social, and taste aspects of managing temple ecosystems, the authorities said.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the inaugural was signed by Giresh Kulkarni, laminitis of Temple Connect, alongside SPPU Vice-Chancellor Dr Suresh Gosavi, and Dr Suresh Haware, a atomic idiosyncratic and adept successful temple management, connected Wednesday.

“It (the course) stands arsenic a captious inaugural to empower the adjacent procreation of temple managers, not conscionable crossed Maharashtra but besides from assorted parts of the state who travel present to study,” said SPPU V-C Suresh Gosavi connected the occasion.

Students volition acquisition 3 months of in-person training, including implicit 20 interactive sessions, followed by a three-month internship astatine renowned temples crossed India.

The diploma people is designed to harvester schoolroom learning with hands-on experience. The people interest is astir Rs 25,000, and admissions for the archetypal batch volition statesman successful February 2025.

Temple Connect has played a cardinal relation successful curating the curriculum, ensuring that it blends theoretical insights with applicable application.

Giresh Kulkarni hailed it arsenic a important measurement towards advancing successful the tract of temple management. “Temple Connect aims to empower students to innovate and thrust sustainable alteration with temple ecosystems. We expect implicit 50 per cent of the batch securing internships done our extended network, with lucrative employment opportunities awaiting them,” helium said.

Who tin apply

The people is unfastened to graduates from recognised universities, particularly those with a inheritance successful temple medication oregon those seeking hands-on experience.

Each batch volition admit 30 students, and respective temples crossed India are supporting the inaugural by offering scholarships to marque the people much accessible. Temple Connect has besides established an unfastened assistance money for students successful request of fiscal assistance.

Temple Connect had launched akin initiatives past twelvemonth by collaborating with the University of Mumbai and Welingkar Institute.

Kulkarni added the people would beryllium gradually started successful much colleges and universities. “Looking ahead, we purpose to grow this inaugural with 3 further programmes – a six-month certificate, a one-year diploma, and a two-year MBA successful Temple Management,” helium said.

(Alister Augustine is an intern astatine The Indian Express)