June 24, 2015 :: The Cabinet has approved a plan to set up of six more Indian Institutes of Management, or IIMs, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
The locations of the premier management institutes will be in
Bodh Gaya ( Bihar),
Visakhapatnam ( Andhra Pradesh),
Sirmaur (Himachal Pradesh),
Nagpur ( Maharashtra),
Sambalpur ( Odisha) and
Amritsar ( Punjab).
In the budget of 2014, the Narendra Modi government had promised five new institutes of technology or IITs, and six new IIMs.
At present, there are IIMs at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore, Shillong, Tiruchirappalli, Raipur, Udaipur, Rohtak, Ranchi and Kashipur.
