By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR/SAMBALPUR/NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid the foundation stone of the permanent campus of IIM Sambalpur via video conferencing.
Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal and Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik, along with Union Ministers Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Dharmendra Pradhan and Pratap Chandra Sarangi also present on the occasion. The ceremony was virtually attended by over 5000 invitees including officials, industry leaders, academicians and students, alumni & faculty of IIM Sambalpur.
IIM Sambalpur is the first IIM to implement the idea of flipped classroom where the basic concepts are learnt in digital mode and experiential learning takes place in the class, through live projects from the industry. The Institute also outscored all other IIMs in terms of highest gender diversity with 49% girl students in MBA (2019-21) batch and 43% in MBA (2020-22) batch.
