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The new batch includes 27 students for the FPM programme and 425 students for the PGP programme. Regarding the academic profile of the PGP Students, a news release said that the IIMK admitted 115 female students constituting 27%, and 16 FPM students making it to 59.25%, and making it always high at the national level. Out of the 1,62,773 students who had applied for the PGP, IIMK extended admission offers to 1 in 122 of those candidates, keeping the penetration rate at 0.88%, tougher than the IITs. more-inThe Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) on Monday commenced the 22nd batch of Postgraduate Programme (PGP) and the 12th batch of Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) on a positive note after admitting 53.3% of underprivileged students through affirmative action. Commenting on the development, Prof.
Debashis Chatterjee, the newly appointed Director of IIMK, said that social deprivation was a more central factor to backwardness than economic deprivation..