Chennai centre of the IIM, Trichy aimed at enabling the Chennai based professionals to join the three-year PGDBM

Updated on: Tuesday, November 20, 2012

IIM-T director Prafulla Agnihotri said, the Chennai centre of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Trichy will be inaugurated on November 21. The architecture master plan for the Trichy campus to be set up on the Trichy-Pudukkottai Road will also be ready by then.

The Chennai centre of IIM-Trichy has already shortlisted 28 students and next year the number will increase to 50. The centre, the first-of-its-kind, is aimed at enabling the Chennai-based professionals join the three-year PGDBM (postgraduate diploma in business management).

The centre at Ekkattuthangal, spread over 4,000 sq ft, has four class rooms, a computer lab, wi-fi connectivity, conference room and a library.

The IIM, Trichy was launched on June 15, 2011 and attracted 84 students in the first year. In the current academic year, it has enrolled around 100 students. It currently functions within NIT-Trichy's renovated old library building on the Trichy-Thanjavur Road.

Agnihotri said the board of governors under the chairmanship of retired IAS officer M Damodaran has already given the green signal to set up its own campus that will come up at Navalpattu on a 70-acre land on the way to Bharathidasan University on the Trichy-Pudukkottai Road. "Tenders will be floated soon after the architecture plan is selected and construction work will start in May next year," Agnihotri said.

The state government allotted 192 acres of land from the stretch of land that was earlier allotted to Bharathidasan University, but the latter refused to part with 22 acres where a borewell is located. The IIM needed the piece of land because it lay at the entrance to the proposed construction.

BDU registrar Aruchamy said that IIM-Trichy could construct the campus with the entrance facing Suriyur Road, so that the contentious 22 acres with the water source that caters to 4,000 Bharathidasan students would not be ceded. However, Agnihotri exuded confidence that "the issue will be resolved soon".

Tenders will be floated soon after the architecture plan of the Trichy campus is selected and construction work will start in May next year

The IIM-T centre at Ekkattuthangal, spread over 4,000 sq ft, has four classrooms, a computer lab, wi-fi connectivity, conference room and a library

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