Sonipat,
June 11, 2026: Jindal Global Business School (JGBS) of O.P.
Jindal Global University (JGU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with the Chetak Foundation, the skill-development and social initiative of the
Chetak Group. The partnership will anchor a new industry course on transport
operations, designed to take JGBS students out of the lecture hall and into
Chetak’s live operations across warehouses, fleet control centers and freight
corridors. It is the latest in a series of industry-integrated electives JGBS
is building as part of its wider effort to root management education in real
industry settings.
Headquartered
in New Delhi, the Chetak Group is one of India’s established multimodal
logistics players, with operations spanning road transport, warehousing, freight
forwarding and integrated supply chain solutions for a wide cross-section of
Indian industry. The Chetak Foundation, set up by the Group, focuses on
building employability and industry-ready skills for India’s young workforce.
JGBS, on its part, is India’s top ranked private university B-school in the QS
World University Rankings by Subject 2026, and sits among the top 200 business
schools in the world in the same ranking.
The
course arrives at a meaningful moment for the sector. The global multimodal
transport market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of
roughly six to seven percent over the next decade. This growth is expected to
create immense career and growth opportunities for students and budding
entrepreneurs and requirement for managerial talent that understands both the
operations and the analytics of modern logistics. The JGBS-Chetak course is
built for exactly that demand. The pedagogical design of the course has been
structured to ensure JGBS students develop analytical readiness in the
classroom before stepping into live field environments. The intent is to move
JGBS students from knowing to doing, and then to learning from doing.
Professor
(Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, JGU said:
“Logistics is not a peripheral story in India’s development today; it sits
at the centre of how the country grows, trades and creates jobs, and a business
school has to prepare its students to navigate that reality. Our partnership
with the Chetak Foundation gives our management students access to an
operational environment where they can observe the inner workings of supply
chains and logistics networks, ask the questions that practitioners confront
every day and propose solutions that will be evaluated in real-world
operations. As an Institution of Eminence, JGU is dedicated to contributing to
national growth by training a skilled youth workforce for the nation’s talent
pool and this partnership reaffirms our steadfast commitment to that mission.”
Under
the terms of the MoU, JGBS students will get structured access to Chetak’s
operational ecosystem through internships, on-site visits to warehouses,
transport yards and freight hubs, and industry-led sessions delivered by senior
logistics and supply chain professionals from the Chetak Group.
Mr.
Mukesh Haritash, Managing Director, Chetak Group, said: “We
are thrilled to partner with Jindal Global Business School to bridge the gap
between academic excellence and practical industry needs. By combining Chetak
Group’s deep logistics expertise and Chetak Foundation’s commitment to skill
development with JGU’s world-class education, we aim to equip the next
generation of leaders with real-world skills. This collaboration reflects our
shared vision of empowering youth and driving sustainable, knowledge-led growth
for the nation.”
Professor
(Dr.) Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik, Registrar, JGU said: “The
Chetak Foundation’s skill-development mandate sits well with the kind of
long-running student engagements we want to build, and we look forward to seeing
this work mature across cohorts. JGU and JGBS have been working to integrate
its curriculum closely with industry requirements, and tie-ups of this depth
are how we make that direction concrete for our students.”
Key
areas of cooperation under the agreement include a knowledge partnership for
courses in supply chain, logistics and allied areas, industry guest lectures
delivered on the JGU campus, and joint research between Chetak professionals
and JGBS faculty members.
The
Dean of the Jindal Global Business School, Professor (Dr.) Mayank Dhaundiyal
said: “I am very pleased about this association
with the Chetak Foundation. Multimodal logistics is one of the most exciting
parts of the Indian growth story right now, and our students will work on live
problem statements drawn directly from Chetak’s operations, the kind of issues
that supply chain managers are working through on any given day. The exposure
complements the case work, simulations and other experiential pieces we are
building into the classroom, and it helps students see how the ideas they study
actually play out in practice. We want our graduates leaving JGBS with more
than a strong transcript. We want them leaving with the judgement and the
industry sense that this kind of partnership is uniquely placed to build.”
For
JGBS students, the partnership is finally about getting closer to how the
logistics industry actually works on the ground. They will work on live problem
statements with professionals from the Chetak Group, taking ideas like network
design, fleet utilization, warehousing efficiency and last-mile delivery out of
the classroom and into real business settings. Beyond the live projects and
site visits, the collaboration will also bring Chetak’s senior leadership to
the JGU campus for guest sessions, giving students a sense of how operating
decisions are actually made inside a working logistics business.