Indian Institutes of Management Sambalpur(IIM Sambalpur)

Overview

The Government of India approved the proposal to set up six new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) across the country in its Budget 2014-15 presented in the Parliament of India on June 24, 2015. Mentored by IIM Indore, IIM Sambalpur was registered as a Society under Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860 on August 19, 2015. The present campus of IIM Sambalpur has been set up at Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha. IIM Sambalpur has been allotted a piece of land measuring over 237 acres in Basantpur, for the permanent campus by the Government of Odisha.

The first batch of Post Graduate Programme(PGP) with 49 students commenced at IIM Sambalpur on September 23, 2015. The Chief Guest of the inauguration ceremony was Shri Sanjay Kumar Das Burma, Hon. Minister, Skill Development & Technical Education, and Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Government of Odisha. Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore and Professor Pawan K. Singh, Faculty, IIM Indore were also present on the occasion.

Other dignitaries present on the occasion included Shri L.N. Gupta, Principal Secretary, Skill Development and Technical Education, Government of Odisha; Shri Nagendra Kumar Pradhan, Member of Parliament, Sambalpur; Shri Rohit Kumar Pujari, Deputy Chief Whip, Odisha Legislative Assembly; Dr. Raseswari Panigrahi, MLA, Sambalpur; Shri Ramesh Patua, MLA, Rengali; Shri Balwant Singh, District Collector, Sambalpur; Shri P.C. Panigrahi, Director (Personnel), Mahanadi Coal Fields Limited, Shri Umesh Mishra, Chief Engineer CPWD; Shri Sanjeev Nayakand Dr. P.K. Mishra of Silicon Institute of Technology, Sambalpur.

During the mentorship period and while IIM Sambalpur’s own faculty are recruited, faculty members from various IIM's and premier Institutes to meet their standards. The overall design, quality and delivery of PGP will be up to the expected standards and with the direct involvement of IIM Indore.