IIM-L team takes over campus at Paonta Sahib

Ambika Sharma

Tribune News Service

Solan, May 20

A team of officials from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow, today took over the campus of Himachal Institute of Technology, Rampur Ghat, as a temporary campus for IIM Paonta Sahib.

A batch of 60 students will be admitted in the first session beginning August and arrangements such as hostel facility, faculty, labs, classrooms etc. will be put in place before the commencement of classes.

The team, comprising administrative head Dinesh Saksena, engineer Sumit Singh and principal of ITI Paonta Sahib PD Sharma, today inspected the site and measured the area to put in place various facilities.

A task force, comprising officials of IIM Lucknow—- the mentor institute for setting up the premier management institute in the state— is looking into nitty-gritty and other formalities of setting up the institute.

An area of 4,400 sq m is available at the temporary campus which comprises 12 classrooms, five offices, three seminar halls, two conference rooms and space for library and computer labs.

The team reviewed other facilities such as water and power connections and security arrangements. It was also decided that 20 students would be adjusted in the girls’ hostel of the local Dental College. At least one hectare would be spared for playground. In the first phase, a 30-room hostel will be constructed to facilitate the students.

The team remained on the campus for three hours and pondered over various issues required to make the campus functional. Himachal Institute of Technology chairman Dr Vijay Gupta helped the task force in taking over the temporary campus.