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Top class facility for institute

R. Krishnamoorthy

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.

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