Department of of Future Studies & Planning

Futures Studies is an emerging academic and professional discipline, arising in the 1950s and 1960s in response to the growing complexity of organizational life and world affairs. The tools and techniques were invented in think tanks and activist organizations in order to understand and respond to the rapidly changing and largely unpredictable future. The discipline has grown due to increasing awareness of the long-term consequences of population and economic growth on our planet. It concerned with envisioning, forecasting and planning a range of possible, probable, and preferable long-term futures in business, governmental, educational, environmental, social, and personal domains.

The School of Futures Studies and Planning, a University Teaching Department under the Faculty of Engineering Sciences was established in the year 1990 to run M.Tech. programme in Future Studies and Planning. It was the first M.Tech. level programme in Future Studies and Planning duly recognized by AICTE, New Delhi in the country. The school has also started another M.Tech. programme in Systems Management duly recognized by AICTE, New Delhi from the year 2005.