Institute of Foreign Trade and Management (IFTM) was established in the year 1998 under the aegis of the Hindu Educational Society, Moradabad (registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860). The activities of IFTM were promoted by a group of public spirited entrepreneurs guided by the great visionary and educationist Late Shri Onkar Saran Kothiwal, the past Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Institute, who dedicated his life for the cause of the basic education amongst the poor and women as well as for the promotion of professional education and research, in the region.
Subsequently, the Institute, under the able stewardship of the great creative thinker and untiring activist Dr. R. M. Dubey, the Managing Director of the Institute, and with the administrative support and patronage from Mr. Rajiv Kothiwal, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Institute, has now grown into one of the most sought after institutions in the country that has resulted from the unwavering commitments of the Society and the mandate it has given itself in terms of those commitments.
A number of colleges have been established by the Society ― College of Pharmacy, comprising three departments: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacognosy, and Pharmaceutics; College of Computing, comprising Department of Computer Applications; College of Management Studies, comprising Department of Management Studies; and College of Engineering and Technology, comprising five departments: Biotechnology, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology, and Electronics and Communication Engineering, each supported by the Department of Humanities and Applied Sciences. The respective Departments of the Colleges of the Institute have separate spacious buildings of their own. The undergraduate course in Engineering and the post-graduate courses in Pharmacy, Management Studies, and Computer Applications are affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University; the six courses have been accredited by NBA-AICTE.
The lush green campus of the Institute is spread over 51 acres of land, with sprawling lawns and playgrounds, and is aesthetically planned and designed with excellent facilities to develop a congenial environment for the students pursuing their studies, away from the daily hustle and bustle of city life. The campus provides all the modern amenities to the students and staff that include separate hostels for boys and girls, staff quarters, guesthouse, 24-hour electric power and water supply, Internet connectivity, bank, post and telegraph office, a medical dispensary, a meditation centre (Onkar Dham), and a fleet of buses for the day scholars as well as for the teaching and non-teaching staff of the Institute residing outside the campus.
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