With the appointment of the first Board of Governors (BoG) for the Indian Institute of Management, Sambalpur (IIM-S), decks have been cleared to scale up its activities.
Skill Development and Technical Education (DoSDTE) Department Principal Secretary lN Gupta has informed that Secretary, Higher Education in the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development, Vinay Sheel Oberoi has been appointed as the Chairperson of IIM-S.
Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi, DoSDTE Principal Secretary laxmi Narayan Gupta and IIM Indore Director Rishikesh T Krishnan are among the Members of the BoG.
As of now, the IIM Indore is the Mentor Institute of IIM-S and Prof Krishnan is its Director. However, the setting up of the BoG would help the institute run onits own, said Gupta.
The State Government has asked Prof Krishnan to convene the first BoG meeting at the earliest. It is expected that the BoG meeting would be held by the second week of January next to chart out the programmes and discuss issues at length.
The IIM-S, which started its Post-Graduate Programme in Management on September 23 with 48 students of 13 States, has recently completed its first Trimester while the second Trimester is continuing smoothly.
Now, a move is on for summer placement for the students, for which IIM-S In-Charge Prof Pawan Kumar Singh is in touch with MCl, Nalco and other major corporate houses.
The IIM-S is currently following the same PGP curriculum as of the IIM Indore. All classes are being taught by the faculty from the IIM Indore. Faculty recruitment for the IIM-S would follow soon after the first meeting of the BoG, said sources.