Ranchi, July 5: The upcoming Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi, will initially offer 140 seats in post-graduate diploma in management studies that may well be extended to 500 in the next five years or so.
IIM, Calcutta, will act as a mentor for its Ranchi counterpart. The courses will be offered from 2010 from the temporary campus at the National Games village in Hotwar.
Chairman of the site selection team for IIM, Ranchi, and additional secretary in the Union ministry of human resource development Ashok Kumar Thakur told The Telegraph that the Hotwar site met all requirements as a temporary accommodation.
A team, comprising ministry undersecretary Pushkar Negi and professor Bodhibrata Nag of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, and director professor Sekhar Choudhury, today visited Brambey on the city outskirts to see the facilities at the panchayati raj building. State HRD secretary Mridula Sinha and director (higher education) Anjani Kumar Shrivastava assisted the central team.
The members left today afternoon with the site selection report for the perusal of high-ups in the ministry. “We zeroed in on the Games village to temporarily start things. The administrative complex and VVIP guesthouses will serve as classrooms and accommodation for guest faculties, respectively. Adjoining apartments may serve as students’ hostels till a permanent campus comes up,” said Nag.
Nag said IIM, Calcutta, would offer its faculty and course design, and guide them on how to build facilities, among other things. The fee for a two-year full-time PGDBM programme will be Rs 6 lakh. However, the fee will be much less for other certificate and short-term courses.
After the ministry accepts the temporary site proposal, the appointment process of a director will start. “The IIM, Ranchi, society will be formed wherein partners from the Centre, state and industry among others will be drawn up. The director will serve as a member secretary of the society that will decide on policy matters,” said officials.
Thakur raised apprehension about the other option for the IIM — a site in Nagri under Kanke block. “We want the state to hand us the land (over 200 acres) free from all encumbrances,” he said.
The Nagri land is the government’s. It was acquired from villagers in the late 50s by the then Bihar government for BAU. Villagers, who have been using the land for agriculture for the past five decades, are protesting the state’s move to allocate the land to IIM.
