ahmedabad the management development programmes mdp at indian institute of management ahmedabad will cover sports communication urban transport and various other sectors from this year onin addition to its existing set of nanagement development programmes for working management executives the countrys top management institute has introduced various new programmes to include many more sectors this year while iima has been offering 56 programmes for executives until last year it will add 20 more programmes to its list this year and offer a total of 76 programmes in 200809 around 38 mdps were offered by the institute some of the new programmes that are introduced at iima this year include professional management of sports organizations urban transportation lab management and others managing by inspiring working in a flat world communicating effectively across cultures strategic general management programme for senior public enterprise executives and so on most of the courses will start taking off from the month of juneexplaining the genesis of these programmes and how they are designed according to the market needs mdp chair at iima tathagata bandyopadhyay said each of these programmes is proposed by faculty members of the institute the faculty members may usually feel the need of such programmes while getting involved in various consultancy services for these industriestalking about how recession had hit these programmes which only recently are picking up momentum again bandyopadhyay said the programmes are faring better and are finding increasing number of participants since last year last to last year we even had to do away with some of the programmes because of poor responsethe institute has also introduced new global programmes in bhutan and dubai