  The drag and diffusion coefficients of the $\Lambda_c(2286$ MeV) have been
evaluated in the hadronic medium which is expected to be formed in the later
stages of the evolving fire ball produced in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and
LHC energies. The interactions between the $\Lambda_c$ and the hadrons in the
medium have been derived from an effective hadronic Lagrangian as well as from
the scattering lengths, obtained in the framework of heavy baryon chiral
perturbation theory (HB$\chi$PT). In both the approaches, the magnitude of the
transport coefficients are turn out to be significant. A larger value is
obtained in the former approach with respect to the latter. Significant values
of the coefficients indicate substantial amount of interaction of the
$\Lambda_c$ with the hadronic thermal bath. Furthermore, the transport
coefficients of the $\Lambda_c$ is found to be different from the transport
coefficients of $D$ meson. Present study indicates that the hadronic medium has
a significant impact on the $\Lambda_c/D$ ratio in heavy ion collisions.
