IIM-T to start from academic year 2010-11

Updated on: Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Tiruchirapalli: The much-awaited Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli (IIM-T) will start functioning from the academic year 2010-11, according to official sources.

The sources said public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) here has offered a two-storey building for conducting classes, while the National Institute of Technology (NIT-T) will provide hostel with a capacity to accommodate over 180 students.

Chief Administrative Officer of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore C V Indu Shekhar Vasisht, who will provide mentoring support to the new IIM-T, for two year duration, recently visited BHEL and NIT complexes here to finalise the temporary venues for class rooms and hostel respectively, the sources added.

For the 2010-11 academic year, 140 students would be admitted in IIM-Tiruchi as in the case of the three other new IIMs at Ranchi in Jharkhand, Raipur in Chhattisgarh, and Rohtak in Haryana, in accordance with the Ministry of Human Resource Development advice to CAT (Common Admission Test) committee to include 560 additional seats.

With the addition of four new IIMs, there will be 11 IIMs in the country, the sources said, adding that efforts were on for constructing a permanent complex for IIM-T in a 193 acre site between Bharathidasan University and Anna University here.

IIM-T to start from academic year 2010-11

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