NEW IIMs

In 11th Five Year Plan, the HRD ministry had announced last year to set up 45 new higher education institutions, including 15 schools of technology and management and 14 world class universities all over the country.Currently, there are six IIMs in the country. Besides a new IIM at Shillong (already announced), seven more IIMs will be set up in Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Haryana. Maharashtra Government has decided to step up the demand for setting up an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in the state.The first Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Northern India would come up at Rohtak in Haryana.