IIMC regional centre at MG University in Kottayam. |
“The Central
Government has sent a conformation letter to the State Government of
Kerala for the proposed plan of expanding the campus and the
authorities are in process of acquiring the land. It will be started
very soon as Center has already allotted Rs. 25 crores towards the
project,” said Shri Ramakrishanan, Special Officer at the regional
center of IIMC, Kottayam on the telephone.
The new campus will
be the third of its kind in India after Delhi and Dhenkanal (Odisha).
In 1995 IIMC proposed to set up a new campus here, but for the
problem of adequate land, the project was postponed for an indefinite
period. In 2011, IIMC started a regional center at the Mahatma Gandhi
University in Kottayam. Now it has other regional centers at
Amravati(Maharstra), Aizawl (Mizoram) and Jammu (J&K).
Mr Ramakrishanan
said that we hope of completing the project in the current five year
plan (2012-17). With the campus we are going to start the Malayalam
Journalism course along with Radio and TV journalism and Advertising
and Public Relation courses. It will be the second center to have
such a variety of courses after New Delhi.
Right now the
strength of the institute is 11 students comes from various parts of
the country. “With the new campus the students will be benefited as
IIMC will introduce different courses,” said Mr Deepu Joy, faculty
at IIMC, Kottayam.
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