IFEM Nagpur - IFE-Backed Fire Safety Institute

65 fire deaths every single day.
And a 96% shortage of the professionals who could prevent them.
That 96% is the opportunity you're training for.

India records roughly 65 fire deaths every day. That is 23,700 people a year. Twenty-two and a half percent of all fire deaths on the planet, from a country with seventeen and a half percent of the world's population.

The reason is not bad luck. It is a structural failure. The country has one firefighter for every 62,000 people. The target is one for every 28,000. There are 3,377 fire stations where there should be 8,559. The National Disaster Management Authority puts the shortage of trained fire safety personnel at 96 percent.

Your career opportunity is the other side of that shortage. Every factory above a certain size is legally required to appoint a qualified safety officer. Every hospital, every hotel, every mall, every high-rise is legally required to hold a fire and life safety audit. Someone has to do the work. The country does not have enough of you.

That is what IFEM builds. And what IFE has been building for over two decades.

IFE. Management in fire education since 1996. Registered 2001.
The first unaided government-recognised fire safety institute in the country.
Your IFEM programme runs on its backbone.

A.K. Pravin Singh has been in fire safety education since 1996. The Institute of Fire Engineering (IFE), based in Nagpur, was formally registered in 2001 under his leadership. IFE became the first unaided government-recognised fire safety institute in India, operating under the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) and affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education (MSBTE), Mumbai.

Over the next two decades, IFE trained more than 3,500 fire safety and industrial safety professionals across India. It built a consultancy practice that served state governments, municipal corporations, and major industrial clients. It collected government recognition and national awards. And it became the only fire safety institute in India trusted to run fire operations at a Formula 1 event.

When you enrol at IFEM, you do not inherit a brochure. You inherit that record. Same founders. Same faculty. Same institutional memory. New programmes, new IATP partnership with IUN, same backbone underneath.

You will learn from the people who wrote the curricula,
designed the systems, and signed the NOCs.

A.K. Pravin Singh

Founder, IFE · Managing Director, IFEM Nagpur

In fire safety education since 1996. Founded IFE in 2001 - the first unaided government-recognised fire safety institute in the country under DTE and MSBTE, Government of Maharashtra. Now leads both IFE and IFEM.

M.Sc. (Disaster Management). MBA, PGD, B.Sc. (Fire Safety and Hazard Management). Civil Engineering. NCDC-trained under Ministry of Home Affairs.

Fire safety consultancy for Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Bhopal Municipal Corporation, HSIIDC Panchkula, PWD Chhattisgarh. Head Fire Marshal at Formula 1 Indian Grand Prix 2012-2014. C-20 G20 representative. Government award for distinguished COVID-19 service (Bihar).

Dr. Priya P. Singh

Principal · Chief Fire Safety Designer/Consultant

Ph.D., VNIT Nagpur (Architecture and Planning). Doctoral research: Fire Service in Urban Areas. M.Tech. Urban Planning, B.Arch. Nagpur University. MBA and PGD in Fire Safety and Hazard Management. GATE 2018: 87.24 percentile.

Three SCIE/Scopus-indexed research papers on urban fire safety, fire risk assessment, and emergency fire service. Life Member COA. Registered Architect (NIT, NMC). Executive Member ISPER Panchkula.

Industrial consultancy: HSIIDC Panchkula, NMC, BMC, PWD Chhattisgarh, Colliers, ACC. Personally issued No Objection Certificates for state government buildings. MSBTE curriculum committee member. Paper Setter and Examiner for MSBTE and RTM Nagpur University.

We do not just teach NBC 2016.
We implement it. Which is what your case studies are built on.

IFE's leadership has designed fire safety systems, conducted audits, and provided consultancy for some of India's most significant public and private infrastructure projects. When you sit in an IFEM classroom and study a case, the case file in front of you comes from this work.

Consultancy clients include Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Bhopal Municipal Corporation, HSIIDC Panchkula, PWD Chhattisgarh, Colliers International, ACC Limited, and Murli Cement and Power, where IFE runs fire station management services.

The people whose names appear on fire safety compliance reports for government buildings are the people teaching you. That is not a marketing claim. It is public record.

From 1996 to 2026. Two institutions. One unbroken line of work.