People's representatives, intellectuals and academicians in a meeting here demanded that the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) be set up at Angul.
Presiding over the meeting, Angul Municipality chairman Akshya Samanta told that centrally located Angul is now the industrial capital of Odisha and a gateway to the western Odisha. Therefore, it enjoys a strategic location, besides possessing natural resources, which attract huge investments in industries, mines and infrastructure area. As a result, considering its importance, Angul should be chosen for the establishment of the IIM, he argued.
Social activist Swapna Sarangi and Er Sashmita Behera told that Angul is well connected with better rail, road and air connectivity. Due to presence of several important PSUs like Nalco, MCl, NTPC and private units like JSPl, Bhushan, GMR, Adani, IMFA, TATA and JITPl etc, the proposed IIM will get all benefits from here. Advocate RP Pattanaik, D Dash, BP Dash, Prasarna Behera, B Mishra and G Pattanaik urged the Government to set up the premier institute at Angul.