The Assam Institute of Management was established in 1988 as an autonomous institute of Government of Assam. Prior to that, several diagnostic studies were conducted by the State Government, which identified management inefficiency and dearth of professionally trained management personnel as the main reason for the underperformance of the State Level Public Enterprises and various government sponsored projects. In that context, the Government of Assam promoted the Assam Institute of Management as an autonomous institute under the Public Enterprises Department. In 1997, the Government of Assam changed the Institute’s reporting department by a Cabinet Resolution under its Administrative Reforms Programme. Considering the contribution of the Institute in management education, the Government of Assam has restructured and broadened the Governing Body of the Institute and vide a circular in September, 2008, the Institute has been brought under the Directorate of Technical Education of Government of Assam.

A true Institute of management has to not only provide management education, but also carry out research, undertake consultancy works and conduct management development and training programmes. AIM has excelled in all these areas. Since its inception, AIM has pioneered well designed management education and executive development programmes in North-East.

The Institute has assisted many government and semi-government organisations through management consultancies and studies. The institute has conducted more than 300 Management Development Programmes with participants from State and Central Government departments and undertakings as well as private sector organisations. Today, AIM graduates are found in various parts of India as well as the Globe, working in organisations of repute. AIM faculty has also won national recognition in the field of research. With its multifarious activities, AIM has been able to carve a niche for itself in the national management scenario. However, there is a long way to go and AIM is fully aware of the challenges ahead.

VISION

Management education, training and development have been regarded as one of the basic human development requirements in the development process of any region. It is believed that inadequate manpower development of the North East Region in the field of Management has been the cause of its relative underdevelopment. The Vision for AIM is to develop appropriate human capital infrastructure to meet the growing developmental needs of the strategically located and resource-rich North Eastern Region of India.

MISSION

The mission of the Assam Institute of Management is to be a CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE by carrying out teaching, training, research, consultancy and networking in the field of Management as also in allied disciplines in the most effective manner.

AIM & OBJECTIVES