New Delhi, August 26: The proposal to set up seven new IIMs in the country will be considered by the union cabinet tomorrow with the HRD Ministry sending the proposal to it for its approval.
Under the XIth Five-Year Plan, government proposed to set up seven new Indian Institutes of Management in Tamil Nadu, Chhatisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand and Meghalaya.
“The HRD Minister has prepared the proposal for the setting up of these IIMs, which will be discussed by the cabinet tomorrow,” informed sources said.
The Ministry had last week called for applications for the posts of directors to the proposed four IIMs in Raipur, Rohtak, Ranchi and Thiruchirapalli.
The IIMs are expected to start functioning from he academic year of 2010. The institutes are part of the government’s efforts to boost the higher and technical education in the country.
—Agencies