Decade later, IIM Amritsar gets new campus at Manawala

After a long wait, the IIM Amritsar has now fully shifted to its new campus at Manawala here. The premier institute has finally moved on from the transit campus at the government polytechnic college and will now be operational from the state-of-the-art permanent campus on 61 acres of land on the Amritsar-Jalandhar road at Manawala.

Built at an estimated cost of over Rs 600 crore, the new campus is spread in approximately 60,300 sq m. A decade after its inception, the IIM Amritsar currently has a student strength of 700 and the new campus has hostel accommodation for staff and students.

Originally, the foundation stone of the permanent campus was laid by former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on June 19, 2016. Since the registration of the IIM, Amritsar society, on July 27, 2015, it was being run from its temporary campus of the Government polytechnic college near Guru Nanak Dev University. The initial deadline for the completion of the construction of the new campus was set to 2022. But several delays marred the project, including acquisition of a portion of the land for the completion of the construction.

The new campus has well-equipped classrooms, library, health centre, incubation centre and a cafeteria. The IIM Amritsar also saw a transition in management with new Director Dr Samir Kumar Srivastav taking over from Prof Dr Nagarajan Ramamoorthy.