To establish a center for imparting knowledge, enhancing skills and cultivating attitudes among the students, in order to achieve academic and human excellence
People’s Institute of Hotel Management (PIHM) is the fast-growing Institute, committed to providing education in the field of Hospitality education. In the wake of the apparent shortage of trained manpower in the Hospitality Industry, People’s Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Bhopal provides Bachelor’s Degree in Hotel Management since 2007 and is one of the Premier Institute for providing Hotel Management Degree in Central India.
The institute comes under People’s University, which is situated in the beautiful “City of Lakes” Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh. The university campus is spread over 69.19 acres of the area near the National Highway No. 86 in Bhopal. It is credited to be Central India’s largest single-campus University. The environment-friendly campus is home to several architecturally striking buildings where every need of staff and students is met. Tree-lined avenues and lush lawns dotted with beautiful flowering shrubs soothe the eye and create an ideal learning ambiance. People’s University is NAAC accredited and all the other Constituent Institutes of People’s University are already approved by concerned Statutory Councils like MCI/DCI/INC/PCI & MP State Paramedical Council.
Why People’s Institute of Hotel Management?
The reasons for the aspiring candidates to choose this outstanding institute are that it is the only Institute in central India, which is:
- ISO 9001:2015 Certified
- Accredited by AICTE, New Delhi
- A Constituent Unit of People’s University (conferred as India’s Best University for promoting Research)
The motto of People’s Institute of Hotel Management is to reach to the community needs in which all stakeholders can participate to fulfill the social responsibilities.
The Institute has well equipped state-of-art laboratories, library with latest books, journals, e-books, computer network, and fully Wi-Fi campus. This Institute has highly qualified faculties to train and develop professional abilities, attitudes, and culinary art skills in the students. The salient feature of the Institute is its pedagogy, which includes hands-on practical / activity-based learning, projects, research assignments, presentations, and workshops. This Institute also inculcates the core values of the professionals in the aspirants so that they can become an intellectual manager and industry leaders.
The objective of PIHM is to impart knowledge and exposure in accordance with the latest industry trends. In PIHM, courses are as per the norms of statutory and affiliating bodies.
The Institute believes in a code of conduct that helps the students to set an example as a disciplined student. It also ensures classes to be conducted on time and syllabi to be completed as per the Academic Calendar. It also facilitates the opportunity for the students to interact with the Industry Experts, Corporate Leaders, and Culinary Divas.
About the Robust Curriculum
The college provides the following effective set of courses in Hotel Management.
| S. No | Course Name | Duration of
Course |
| 1 | BHMCT
[Bachelor in Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition] |
4 Years |
| 2 | BBA (HHA)
[Bachelor of Business Administration (Hospitality and Hotel Administration)] |
3 Years |
| 3 | DFPP
[Diploma in Food Production and Patisserie] |
1.5 Years |
| 4 | DFBS
[Diploma in Food and Beverage Services] |
1.5 Years |
Wide Placements and Careers
The Institute has its own Training and Placement Cell, which has a verbal or written contract with the industry. The cell also helps in inviting the recruiters and helping the students to participate in interviews, and take advantage of campus placement drive. The cell also helps the students to facilitate Industrial Training.
PIHM’s students are successfully placed at:
- Oberoi Group
- Country Inn & Suites
- Hilton Hotels and Resorts
- Jaypee Hotels
- ITC- Welcome group
- Ramada Group
- Hyatt
- Park Plaza
- Crowne Plaza
- Radisson
Along with that, wide career options are available to the students in various industrial sectors. Major career options are; Hotel Restaurants, Airlines, Marine Catering, Fast Food, Hospital Catering, Hospital Front Desk, Front Desk Operations, Travel &Tourism Industry, Entrepreneur, Railway Catering, Industrial Catering, Food Stylist and Food Decorators, Breweries Industries, Food Travelers, and Gourmet Journalism.
Recognition at a Glance
The graduates and students at PIHM have made their name in the industry and have made the institute proud. Some of the accomplishments are:
- Four Students placed in Dubai and Saudi Arabia
- Two students placed in Oberoi, Mumbai
- Students placed in Radisson, Indore
- One faculty has been associated with the MPCON & M.P. tourism for the development of detail project report for the study & evaluation of signage & interpretation board availability & status
- Four faculties participated in book chapter writing in vocational training courses.
- Vocational Teachers Training Program with collaboration with PSSCIVE (NCERT)
Developing Overall Competent Graduates
The Institute regularly conducts an orientation program for the new students which involves frequent industry visits to get exposure and basic knowledge about the industry and industry functioning. To name a few exposure programs organized for the senior students:
- Visit to Sula Vineyards, Nasik
- Activities organized for learning the importance of Hand washing in food service
- Industries on Global Handwashing Day- 15 August.
- The program organized on awareness about the scarcity of food in the world –
- Celebrated World Food Day- Distributed 30 Kg Nutritional Khichdi among the schoolchildren
- To develop entrepreneur skills among the students; institute celebrated world tourism day where the students set up food stalls of different regions of M.P.
Regarding the future, the institute plans on Culinary Science and Diet Management to be combined to balance taste and health and provide nutrition to the healthy guest and eye appealing food to the invalid people. It also wants to develop contents of culinary science and hospitality as per user’s requirement.
A Creative & Innovative Chancellor
Suresh N. Vijaywargia was born in Bhopal on 12th May 1944 in a business family. He did his schooling in Bhopal and later joined the State engineering college at Vidisha (MP). He played an active role in all the activities in college and was the joint secretary of the students union. He got his electrical engineering degree in 1968.
A natural aptitude for entrepreneurship coupled with leadership quality helped him in setting up of successful business in India as well as abroad. Despite a promising rise in the US in the ‘70s, he returned to his motherland in the early ‘80s and continued with his successful stints in the field of film financing, construction, and retailing. He started a chain of super bazaars in Bhopal, the first of their kinds.
To help the poor and gas affected people of old Bhopal, he started a charitable 100 bedded hospital namely People’s General Hospital in the old locality. A larger vision coupled with intelligence and creativity helped him in realizing his biggest challenge and dream of setting up an educational hub in the city of Bhopal. This resulted in the formation of the People’s Group promoted by Sarvajanik Jankalyan Parmarthik Nyas, a Charitable & Non-profitable Public Trust established by Mr. Suresh Vijaywargia. The People’s Campus located at Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), India, is one of the largest for Medical, Dental, Management, Hotel Management, Engineering, Pharmacy, Media, Nursing, Paramedical, Physiotherapy, School, Hospitals, and Healthcare in central India.
Vijaywargia has embarked onto a mission for creating and harnessing talent pool for various disciplines. The journey of People’s Group began with the prime objective of “Nurturing Humanity through Health and Educational Excellence”.
A Determined & Resolute Vice-Chancellor
Dr. Rajesh Kapur has been Senior Adviser and Scientist “H”, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi and has been steering R&D in the medical and health care area for the past over two decades in the country. He was the Managing Director, of Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation Limited (BIBCOL) a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India set up for manufacturing oral polio vaccines and other immunizers.
He was also the “Trustee” of The Wellcome Trust/DBT “India Alliance” which is a £160 million initiative funded equally by the Wellcome Trust, UK, and DBT to build excellence in the Indian biomedical scientific community by supporting future leaders in the field. Lastly, he was associated with the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi as a Senior Consultant in their mission mode programme on India Tuberculosis Research Consortium.
He specializes in core and cross-sectoral policy issues of academic development, biotech regulation, safety, public-private partnership, international bilateral cooperation and relations, and public concerns and consensus building.
Dr. Kapur is widely traveled and was a member of various Inter-Governmental committees and has been an active participant in FAO-WHO Codex Alimentarius meetings in India and abroad. He has been a member of the Governing Council and Scientific Advisory Committees/Research Councils of DBT and CSIR Institutions.
