Seven proposed IIMs to come up in phased manner

NEW DELHI: The proposed seven IIMs will be set up in a phased manner with four of them being planned in first go.

These are IIMs at Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak in Haryana and Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, Minister of State for HRD D Purandeswari told the Rajya Sabha today in a written reply.

The government would set up the rest IIMs in Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan later. The IIM in Shillon has been set up in 2007-08, she said.