XIMB to have a campus in Balangir; a second campus in the Bhubaneswar area near OEC
April 12th, 2010
Update: For some time XIMB has been planning to expand in the Bhubaneswar area. See https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/1679. It is also interested in becoming a private university. See https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/2788. A recent Business Standard report says the following about the campus in the Bhubaneswar area:
XIMB which had kicked off its operations in the city in 1987, aimed to operationalize its second campus in the state by 2012, the year marking the silver jubilee …
… P T Joseph, director, XIMB said, “We will be coming up with two new campuses in the state- one at Bolangir and the other at Khurda. The Orissa government has already alloted us 35 acres of land at Khurda and has agreed to provide 25 acres of land on the outskirts of Bolangir town.”
The XIMB campus at Bolangir will exclusively focus on the Rural Management Programme and will have an intake of 120 students.
“Our campus at Bolangir will be a fully residential facility with a built-up area of 1.55 lakh sq ft and it will only offer the Post Graduate Diploma course in Rural Management. We will phase out the Rural Management programme at our existing campus in Bhubaneswar after the establishment of the Bolangir campus”, Joseph added.
XIMB’s campus will come up about seven km from Bolangir town and the institute wants to offer a rural ambience to the students pursuing the Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management.
XIMB’s campus at Khurda is coming close to the campus of Orissa Engineering College.
It also seems to be making progress in the university front as tathya.in has a headline saying "XIMB University in offing".
See http://www.tathya.in/news/story.asp?sno=3962 for the news item on this in tathya.in. Following is from Samaja.
Entry Filed under: Balangir-Titlagarh area,Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri- Khurda area (1),Xavier University,XIM Bhubaneswar
5 Writeup
1. alok | April 13th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Sometime back this site informed that XIM will be setting up its branch at Sambalpur..But this is good that they have opted for Bolangir.
2. Chitta Baral | April 13th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Yes, tathya.in had earlier mentioned about a similar campus in Sambalpur. May be the earlier report was a premature one.
3. bikash dash | May 10th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
its good that it is coming in bolangir.sambalpur is a better option but its ok that it is coming in bolangir.alok i dont know what is the problem with u ,u r always behind sambalpur.u feel bolangir is a big city and sambalpur is a village,thats good.after all we never complain anything whatever is setting anywhere in western orissa becuse we are true sambalpuria.we love kosal.any where in western orissa its always welcome, but not in rourkela.
4. Chitta Baral | May 10th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Bikash: Why the anti-Rourkela attitude?
Every place should develop further; be it Bolangir, Sambalpur, Rourkela, Balsore, Angul, Puri or Berhampur …
5. bikash dash | May 31st, 2010 at 2:14 pm
chita sir i hv never an anti rourkela attitude.it is also a pride of western orissa.but the people of rourkela hv make us think againest rourkela.we support overall devlopment but they are always againest sambalpur,if any thing happens in sambalpur.u know it better what sambalpur.what is there in sambalpur or not.if sambalpur is a village what we call to cuttack and berhampur metro.one thing is always true orissa cant be devlop with out the devlopment of sambalpur,cuttack,rkl,berhampur.so over all growth should be promoted not an individual growth which is now going on in orissa.orissa means only bhubaneswar.hope our cm will also understand this thing.