The Forum for IIM in Brahmapur on Tuesday condemned the site selection for the proposed IIM’s permanent campus in Bhubaneswar. Members of the forum decided to intensify stir demanding reconsideration of the decision to choose Brahmapur as the location for the national institution.
A meeting was organised here by the forum attended by leaders of different political parties. They discussed at length about engaging youths, college and university students and common people to protest the decision of not accepting Brahmapur’s demand.
Forum president Prof Pramod Kumar Sahu and coordinator Sudheer Kumar Rout said the State Government had not taken their view before selecting the location for the institution.The Central Government should not allow setting up of the permanent campuses of the IIT and the IIM at the same locality, they added.
Political party leaders like Pradesh Congress Committee secretary Bikram Kumar Panda, BJP youth leader Bibhuti Jena, BJD general secretary T Gopi, Aam Aadmi Party leader Prabhat Mohanty, Rabi Rath of the Samata Kranti Dal along with social activists Tumbanath Panda, Mahan Sangha president Susant Sabat and Chamber of Commerce president VVRN Rao were present in the meeting.
The members said they would form IIM Kriyanustan Committee to fight for the cause. Besides, they would hold Ganjam bandh, boycott of classes in colleges and university and other type of agitation to impose pressure on the Government to reconsider their demands.