RG-IIM Shillong set for debut on July 4

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MBAUniverse.com News Desk |
August 3, 2016
The seventh Indian Institute of Management will begin its first academic session on July 4, 2008 from a temporary campus in Shillong that previously housed the North Eastern Hill University.

Sharing information with MBAUniverse.com, an IIM official said, “The inauguration of the programme will be held on July 4th. We are admitting sixty students this year.”

MBAUniverse.com has learnt that Prof Ashok Kumar Dutta, formerly associated with Calcutta based Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM) has been appointed as the director of the RG-IIM Shillong.

According to RG-IIM Shillong, while the post-graduate diploma course in business management will begin with an annual intake of 60 students in the first two years, this will be doubled in the third year and increased by another 60 in the sixth. The process of admission is currently in process. It is learnt that the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is helping RG-IIM in the admission process.

Commenting on the new launch of the programme, Rathindra Nath Datta, former chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers (India), who has been appointed the chairman of the board of governors of the institute, said, "While construction of the permanent structure is going on, the institute will start functioning at the Mayurbhanj complex in Nongthymmai."

Apart from the management programme, the institute proposes to offer a fellowship programme in management, apart from management development programmes and courses in tourism and hospitality management.

The tution fee for First-Year of the Two-Year residential PG Programme is Rs 190,000 which is excluding boarding & lodging charges.

Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh had laid the foundation stone of the permanent campus of the IIM, named after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, on December 1, 2007. The Meghalaya government has provided 120 acres of land free of cost in the new satellite township of Mawdiangdiang, 20km from Shillong, for the permanent campus.