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| Saturday, Febraury 16, 2008
Top class facility for institute
- State-of-art infrastructure for BIM
- Separate facility on a 12-acre site in Khajamalai
TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University has decided to create state-of-art
infrastructure for Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM),
a business school of national acclaim, at its Khajamalai campus.
The university has initiated steps to facilitate BIM to function
from the Khajamalai campus in two years time. Ever since 1984,
when the university conferred on BIM the status of autonomy,
it has been functioning on BHEL premises.
The uniqueness of BIM lies in its ties with BHEL, by virtue
of its functioning from the latter’s rented infrastructure.
In the event of shifting, it would continue to retain its link
with the BHEL and forge such ties with other industries, Vice-Chancellor
M. Ponnavaikko said on Friday.
Infrastructure befitting an international business school would
be created separately for the Institute on a 12-acre site in
the Khajamalai campus. The infrastructure plan was being evolved,
Prof. Ponnavaikko said, informing that the university was looking
forward to installing solar panels on the buildings proposed
for the Institute with industry support on mutually beneficial
terms. Financial support would be garnered by leveraging their
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives. The Institute
would, in turn, offer them training programmes.
The task of planning and executing solar power generation for
meeting BIM’s energy requirements would be entrusted with
the Solar Cell Research wing that was being formed in the university.
Solar street lights would be installed in the campus, the Vice-Chancellor
said.
The university feels that shifting of BIM to its own building
will be of immense convenience to the large number of visiting
faculty, Khajamalai campus being close to the airport, the railway
station and the central bus stand.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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