Haryana: Soon, the students of Haryanawill get an opportunity to enroll in the elite - Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) without moving out of the state. The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Rohtak is all set to start the academic session 2010-11.
The academic session of IIM - Rohtak is likely to commence from the month of July this year. With that it will become the first among the four new IIMs approved by the Centre across the country. The other three IIMs are to be set up in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, Ranchi in Jharkhand and Raipur in Chattisgarh.
Initially, the IIM- Rohtak will start from temporary premises and the institute’s building would be constructed later on. Haryana government has allotted 200 acres of land in Garnawati village, Rohtak for setting up its campus. Moreover, the Centre is likely to give nearly Rs 250 crore for the institute - the first IIM in North India.
As per sources, Dr Devi Singh, Director, IIM-Lucknow, has been appointed the Mentor Director for the Rohtak-IIM. He is entrusted with the responsibility to help set up the institute and make it functional. The new institute has been attached with IIM-Lucknow according to the government’s norm, in which an established IIM mentors the new one.
