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Modi government to open 16 New IIMs: Good or Bad?

The Modi government announced their plan to open new IIMs and IITs in all states. Although there are hardly anybody who have expressed their objection, there are numerous people waiting eagerly for this concept. This article explores its implications.

Alerting parliament's joint sitting, Honorary President Pranab Mukherjee announced that the government will establish IITs and IIMs in every state. "We will open IITs and IIMs in all states." the president announced in his address.

An IIM and an IIT in all states, what would be the effects? While hardly anyone has protested against the issue, there are many who are thrilled with the thought.

The existing Government had also made the same promise at the time of election and has therefore brought forward its poll promise by putting the same in the speech of the President. Prime Minister Narendra modi had already said that, "Education and opportunity for jobs for youngsters; IIMs, IITs & AIMS in every state is one of the 8 Point Development Model of our government.".

As the reports show, the government would like to initiate such an expansion in haste and HRD minister Smriti Irani has already put demands of infrastructure for new IIMs and IITs on the agenda of her meeting with state secretaries of higher and technical education on June 17.

Let us consider the present situation of our IIMs and IITs as a whole before tallying the strengths or weaknesses of this gigantic expansion plan.

Indian Institute of Management – IIM : Current Scenario

In the existing 13 IIM's there are 3335 seats.

As there is one IIM in every state, it will be 29 IIMs overall. 16 new IIMs will bring at least 1920 seats (assuming a batch of 120). So the overall IIM quota seats would be 5255. 27% of the total seats will be for OBC's, 15% for SC's and 7.5% seats are reserved for ST category and so it will create 49.5% overall. Thus the general category now shall have 2653 seats available with them, which is a gigantic boost from 1684 seats previously.

The New IIMs are now in the proposed phases of opening in J&K, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Seemandhra, Telangana, Delhi, Odisha and north-eastern states except Meghalaya.

Indian Institute of Technology – IIT : Current Scenario

In 16 IITs there are total seats of 8862. Though ISM Dhanbad is also generally included in IITs and there are total seats of 1023 and total becomes 9885 seats. Out of them in general category 4,844 seats.

New IITs are proposed to rise now in states of J&K, Haryana, Seemandhra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and north-eastern states. Whether all north-eastern states will have an IIT or they are being consolidated is yet to be known.

Advantages of establishing New IIMs and IITs

- Establishing new universities of higher learning, the increase in the seats is certainly a piece of good news for future management and technical graduates who would wish to establish their career in the area of management and technology.

- Even though they possess the greatest number of young minds, admission of students into premier institutions like IIMs and IITs is restricted due to non-availability of suitable seats. Increase in seats will enable such clever minds to achieve their dream.

- With the construction of new institutes, a considerable investment will be done in each state and hence local economy will boost. The standard of not only higher but primary education too will get enhanced, as more individuals will be ready to take advantage of better education provided.

- The majority of the students need to change from one state to another for gaining quality education. Opening these quality schools in all the states will be advantageous for the progress of each state because the migration will be reduced. Further, the industries will seek more local talent than some excellent foreign colleges' talent or other states' talent, that will enable them to hire better and motivated workers who will work harder.

- And, the issue of accessing local talent will address most of the HR problems and industries will be able to capitalize on it in numerous ways from establishing industries to expanding business in the preferred state and location.

- The feeling of competition will rise and will only thrive. So, it would be a win-win for all, local, state and the country altogether. So the entire socio-economic scenario will alter.

Few areas of concern

Although the dream is great but there are going to be some hurdles before the new government to make this dream of an IIM and an IIT in every state possible. Some areas of concern are:

- The newly formed IIMs are already incurring losses owing to the absence of proper infrastructure and qualified staff. The government needs to be cautious while setting up such institutions. It needs to ensure that whatever institutions are set up, they are in a position to deliver quality education to the largest number of students.

- Government should first attempt to expand the existing capacity of the existing IIMs and IITs by filling seats and faculty instead of opening new one. Indian IIMs and IITs have failed to raise their intake capacity compared to other Top Institute in the world. Government should start to enhance the depth of these Institutions instead of breadth.

- While setting up an IIT would, on average, require Rs 1,750 crore, setting up an IIM and central university would require Rs 1,000 crore each. This doesn't include the expense of land that state governments will have to purchase and gift to the center for free. Narendra Modi government will be forced to go for this expansion phase wise, one or two states at a time, instead of one state at a time.

- Government has proposed his homework prior to designing this colossal expansion. Building infrastructure, faculty and primary-secondary education quality need to be addressed for the success of this venture.

- No developed infrastructure, and few Quality permanent faculties are two of the greatest stumbling blocks to this cause. The government and the HRD Ministry must prioritize this problem so that they may enjoy the fruits of their future schemes.

Whatever may be the issues, imparting quality education to more sections of society is the need of the hour for India. Being a developing country and to facilitate this development, a balanced growth in the output of well-educated and highly qualified people is just inevitable.

So the wait will be interesting to watch the next move towards this initiative by the Narendra Modi government and the HRD Ministry. Students otherwise will rejoice as the scope of learning from the top-most institution of technology and management will increase.

5 Reasons to Choose Sri Sri University for Management Courses in 2025: Career, Curriculum & Placement Insights

Sri Sri University is a university in Cuttack, Odisha that provides quality management education through its Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) with an assortment of UG and graduate programs such as BBA and MBA programs Odisha (and several specializations, including HR, Marketing, Finance, Agribusiness, and Fintech) and graduate diplomas. These are five reasons why students must ponder on taking management courses in Sri Sri University in 2025.

Practical Learning with Industry-Focused Curriculum

The management courses at the university combine theory with business issues in the real world. Live projects, case studies and internships in which students learn skills such as decision-making, strategic analysis and problem-solving are valuable skills to employers. This practical method prepares one for the corporate world.

Exceeding Placement History and Remuneration

Sri Sri University has an excellent placement success rate and more than 98 percent of students enrolled in MBA are placed in the recent past. Graduates are offered good remuneration packages with average salary of about INR 6.89 LPA and the best packages of over INR 13 LPA. The good recruiter network also shows the worth of a degree in this university.

Broad selection of Specialisations

Students have the opportunity to study specialties Human Resource Management, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy. This is a flexibility that allows students to match-up their studies to career objectives and industry needs.

Focus on Leadership, Ethics, and Entrepreneurial Skills

Sri Sri University emphasizes value-based leadership, ethical business practices, and entrepreneurial thinking. Through centers like the Sri Sri Centre of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, students gain exposure to startup culture, develop business acumen, and learn to lead with social responsibility and ethical principles

Raising Standards and Inspirational Teaching

BBA and MBA programs are taught according to international standards and employ such modern techniques of teaching as video lectures, group discussions, and seminars. The credit system has flexibility which promotes creativity and critical thinking needed in global business success.

Pursuing management courses at Sri Sri University is a choice of an investment in a future skill set, good industry exposure, and high-paying employment. It is a perfect place where students can establish effective management careers in India and elsewhere.

Vision over compulsion: UG programmes of IIMs are controversial

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are introducing stand-alone UG programmes with a diminishing flow of government money as a response to NEP 2020 and under fire for revenue-based motivations.

In parallel, IIM Udaipur will launch an on-campus BBA course from next year. The fees for UG courses vary from ₹4.5 lakh for IIM Bangalore's online BBA to almost ₹28 lakh for Kozhikode's Bachelor in Management Studies (BMS).

The expansion of the UG courses is attributed by IIM officials to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 push for flexible learning and driven by academic requirements and not by finances. Despite this, government investment has fallen significantly—dropping by up to 75.5% from ₹1,030 crore in 2017-18 to ₹251.89 crore in 2025-26—after the IIM Act, 2017 gave autonomy to the institutions. All IIMs offering undergrad courses except IIM Kozhikode have taken Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) loans of ₹250– ₹400 crore, where the institutes repay the amount while the government reimburses the interest.

Students view the high fees as an investment that provides exposure to the IIM environment — best faculty, peer pool, and brand equity. Experts warn, however, that the shift can water down the IIMs' focused attention, turning them into mass universities as they would come under pressure to raise their own revenues.

IIM UG programmes

IIM Sirmaur launched the BMS course, the first UG course of an IIM, in September 2024.

Justifying the shift, IIM Sirmaur director Dr. Prafulla Agnihotri added, "Most UG management courses in contemporary universities are too theoretical in nature. We believed that management education should sharpen decision-making and offer greater practical application of theory to its students and launched the BMS course last year.".

He acknowledged the transition was hard on staff initially, who had no past experience teaching undergrads, but added, "After a year, our faculty have settled into the challenges of the BMS."

IIM Sirmaur's BMS course received 2,373 applications for only 120 seats this year, for which the four-year program would cost ₹22.73 lakh. Admission is given based on marks secured by students in the written test Integrated Program in Management Aptitude Test (IPMAT) organized by IIM Indore and personal interview.

Lok Sabha approves Bill to set up IIM Guwahati in Assam

Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was unanimously approved by the Lok Sabha with a view to setting up a new Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Guwahati, Assam. The move is a leap in a giant stride towards providing the world-class management education to India's North-East region, an age-old regional aspiration.

What the Bill Proposes

The Bill also amends the Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017, to specifically include IIM Guwahati in the list of national management institutes. The institution will be given a central grant of ₹550 crore to fund its establishment, infrastructure, and operational facility.

Implication of IIM Guhawati

Having an IIM located there will ensure level playing fields for access to quality management education.

The institute would serve as a growth catalyst for the area, drawing in capital and talent.

The project not only bears pedagogical importance but also adds to the realization of the national growth dream by taking everyone along, which will open doors to include the Northeast within the higher echelons of education in India.

IIMs: A Brand on the Rise

There are 21 functional IIMs in the country today. They were a global brand of managerial education quality from the very beginning, and more and more foreigners are eager to join them.

The interesting thing is that even the government is setting up an IIM campus in Dubai this month, indicating India emerging as a global power in higher education and internationalizing Indian higher education institutions.

Parliamentary Context

Notwithstanding the enactment of the Bill, it was passed without debate in Lok Sabha in the face of SIR issue opposition unrest. Notwithstanding unrest, the law was enacted, an indication of bipartisan good will towards educational advancement in the face of political unrest.

Strategic and Educational Impact

The IIM Guwahati will likely to,

Enhance infrastructure for management education in Northeast India.

Promote entry of boys and girls from backward and tribal areas in professional education.

Promote employment, research, and innovation at the levels of Assam and other states.

Promote entrepreneurship and indigenous enterprise via management capacity.

Masai and IIM Trichy Launch AI-Driven Courses in Product Management and Digital Marketing

Taking a major step towards creating the future of management and technology education, Masai, India's largest outcome-based EdTech company, partnered with the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIM Trichy) to launch two game-changing certificate courses — Digital Marketing with Applied AI and Product Management for the Agentic AI Era.

Six-month programs, up for enrollment, aim to help professionals stay abreast of an increasingly evolving business scenario. While the international digital marketing industry is anticipated to grow to USD 786 billion in 2026 and AI-powered product strategies enable organizations to reduce time-to-market by up to 35 percent, the programs aim to put the ability to thrive under the age of intelligent automation in learners' hands.

The Digital Marketing course with AI explores campaign planning, prompt engineering, AI tools, and measurement, featuring over 20 hands-on projects to build a solid portfolio. The Product Management program explores how Agentic AI is changing product lifecycles, with emphasis on strategy, design, and execution. The programs feature real-world case studies, faculty mentoring at IIM Trichy along with industry mentors, as well as career counseling.

Stressing the alliance, Masai Co-founder & CEO Prateek Shukla indicated that the alliance brings together academic rigour with industry relevance to train the students for roles of leadership. Seconding the opinion, Prof. Saravanan P, Dean (Corporate Relations & Faculty Affairs), IIM Trichy, emphasized again that the focus is on applied learning so that industry-ready students are sent out for graduation.

Masai further announced that it is developing an AI-powered Fintech program, further enriching its pipeline of future-ready offerings. The newly launched programs are now open for applying on the Masai School platform.

AIMS organizes conference on 'NEP-2020: Management Education'

A recent conference was organized by Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) on the implication and application of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in management education.

Among the dominant themes was preparing students with sets of competencies that would place them to thrive in a digitalization era. Conference presenters highlighted accepting technological developments through curriculum creation, experimentation, and career counseling of learners. Technology integration and collaborations with business partners were discovered to be crucial to today and relevant management education.Academic leaders, industry professionals, and policy administrators attended the conference and shared their views on how NEP 2020 can transform management studies in India.

It talked about how NEP 2020 encourages the students' choice with the opening up of management education to inter-disciplinary programmes such as hospitality management, business economics, and data science. It encouraged specialists in favour of a student-centric model, which entails the development of employment skills through internships and practice training and making the graduates employable for 21st-century workplace needs.

Panellists discussed issues for schools, such as infrastructure and building modernisation, investment in teacher training, and greater flexibility among students. The ultimate objective is to make the innovation, inclusiveness, and domestic as well as global reputation of management education in India more robust.

The conference concluded on a positive note with recommendations for continuous improvement, industry-academia interface, and commitment towards making the students career-proof and lifelong learners

Faculty of International Trade & Commerce at Vivekananda Global University: A Hub for Future Commerce Leaders

Vivekananda Global University (VGU), Faculty of International Trade & Commerce, Jaipur, has become one of the most popular commercial education centres that combines both academia and industry demands across the globe. Led by its vision to be the next-generation in commerce and trade leader, the faculty has been known to have a wholesome curriculum, innovative instruction and good interface with the industry. It is ranked number 7 amongst the top commerce colleges in Rajasthan by India Today 2025, and it is a light that cannot be ignored when it comes to offering quality commerce education in India.

Dean’s Vision and Leadership

According to the Dean of the Global Centre for Entrepreneurship and Commerce (GCEC), the faculty uses a holistic approach in which they train the students not just in theory but in both practical skills and international exposure as well. VGU, having 12 years of history, the Faculty of International Trade & Commerce has more than 17,861 alumni in the whole world and 18,684 students today, which is an indicator of its vast presence and increasing popularity as a business educational institution.

Scholastic Achievement and Coursework

The faculty has different programs that match international standards and the demands of the Indian industry, such as:

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) (Hons.), with ACCA and CMA benefits.
Master of Commerce (M.Com)- majors tailored to modern commerce areas.
Curricula are built into industries based on feedback from the trade and business leaders.
Extra-curricular clubs and forums enable interaction with the real world and engagement.

Practical Learning and Industry Connect.

The focus of the faculty on education meets execution, turning students into industry-prepared graduates. Students can acquire practical exposure through internships, live projects, and entrepreneurial incubation, which are directly related to employment and business ecosystem trends. The faculty has strong placement support due to close contacts with more than 1000 companies involved; thus, the faculty is a favourite with students and recruiters as well.

Infrastructure and Student Life

The student at the faculty enjoys an enviable campus of more than 35 acres that has high-quality classrooms, well-stocked libraries, computer labs, and colourful co-curricular activities. The faculty also hosts frequent cultural events, entrepreneurship seminars, and workshops with industry experts, hence, holistic development outside academics.

The Importance of this Faculty to Academic Leaders

To professors, deans and education policymakers, the Faculty of International Trade and Commerce at VCU provides an example of combining academic excellence and practical applicability. It is exemplary in its adaptability to the industry needs and emphasis on entrepreneurship, which was achieved through the continuous introduction of changes to the curriculum. The faculty successfully develops moral, creative leaders, which underscores a forward-thinking roadmap in the study of commerce that may stimulate institutions nationwide.