Centre yet to finalise facilities for Tiruchi-IIM
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is yet to communicate its choice of temporary facilities for the Indian Institute of Management – Tiruchi that is expected to start functioning from 2010-11, it is learnt.
In the wake of the Ministry advising the CAT (Common Admission Test) Committee late last year to include 560 additional seats – 140 each for the new IIMs at Tiruchi in Tamil Nadu, Ranchi in Jharkhand, Raipur in Chhattisgarh, and Rohtak in Haryana – for the aspiring management candidates from 2010-11, a central team led by the Additional Director in MHRD Ashok Thakur visited Tiruchi during February, 2010, to finalise the temporary campus.
Accompanied by Pankaj Chandra, Director of Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, the mentoring institution; the Additional Director-General of Central Public Works Department N.Ravi, Mr. Thakur visited the campuses of the National Institute of Technology – Tiruchi (NIT-T), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Bharathidasan University, and Anna University – Tiruchi. Collector T. Soundiah, who guided the team along with the Principal Secretary of Higher Education, Government of Tamil Nadu K. Ganesan said the district administration had not received any communication in this regard from the MHRD.
At the NIT-T, the team was shown a hostel building that could accommodate over 180 students. The facility will be kept vacant in anticipation of the requirement for the new entrants to IIM – Tiruchi, NIT-T Director M. Chidambaram said. At the BHEL where a building on its MHD campus where the School of Advanced Engineering and Information Technology functioned earlier was shown, the team was said to have enquired availability of theatre-type classrooms.
Though the Central team had also took stock of the facilities in the Bharathidasan University and the Anna University – Tiruchi, indications are that the MHRD is most likely to narrow down its option for the temporary facilities to the buildings provided by the NIT-T and the BHEL, it is said.
In the wake of the Ministry advising the CAT (Common Admission Test) Committee late last year to include 560 additional seats – 140 each for the new IIMs at Tiruchi in Tamil Nadu, Ranchi in Jharkhand, Raipur in Chhattisgarh, and Rohtak in Haryana – for the aspiring management candidates from 2010-11, a central team led by the Additional Director in MHRD Ashok Thakur visited Tiruchi during February, 2010, to finalise the temporary campus.
Accompanied by Pankaj Chandra, Director of Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, the mentoring institution; the Additional Director-General of Central Public Works Department N.Ravi, Mr. Thakur visited the campuses of the National Institute of Technology – Tiruchi (NIT-T), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Bharathidasan University, and Anna University – Tiruchi. Collector T. Soundiah, who guided the team along with the Principal Secretary of Higher Education, Government of Tamil Nadu K. Ganesan said the district administration had not received any communication in this regard from the MHRD.
At the NIT-T, the team was shown a hostel building that could accommodate over 180 students. The facility will be kept vacant in anticipation of the requirement for the new entrants to IIM – Tiruchi, NIT-T Director M. Chidambaram said. At the BHEL where a building on its MHD campus where the School of Advanced Engineering and Information Technology functioned earlier was shown, the team was said to have enquired availability of theatre-type classrooms.
Though the Central team had also took stock of the facilities in the Bharathidasan University and the Anna University – Tiruchi, indications are that the MHRD is most likely to narrow down its option for the temporary facilities to the buildings provided by the NIT-T and the BHEL, it is said.
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