PM Modi inaugurates AIIMS Jammu, permanent campuses of IIM, IIT

IIT Jammu started the BTech programme in the year 2016 with an initial intake of 30 students each in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering discipline.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the permanent campuses of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Jammu and the official complex of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jammu, equipped with 52 laboratories, 104 faculty offices, and 27 lecture halls, on February 20.

IIM Jammu is the youngest IIM in the country to be established as an 'Institute of National Importance', when it was opened by the Centre in 2016. The institute is offering its flagship post-graduate programme Master of Business Administration (MBA). Two batches of the programme have already successfully graduated.

IIT Jammu started the BTech programme in the year 2016 with an initial intake of 30 students each in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering discipline.

As of now, the institute also offers BTech in Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Engineering. The institute has also started the Department of Biosciences and Bio-Engineering (BSBE) in 2021. BTech in Mathematics and Computing is added starting with the 2023-24 session with an initial intake of 40 students.

PM Modi was felicitated by Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha ahead of the historic launch of developmental projects worth Rs 30,500 crore. The prime minister is in Jammu on a one-day visit.

The PM also inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Vijaypur (Samba), Jammu. The institute, whose foundation stone was laid by him in February 2019, is being established under the central government scheme 'Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana'.

Established at a cost of over Rs 1,660 crore and in an area spanning over 227 acres, the hospital is equipped with 720 beds, a medical college with 125 seats, a nursing college with 60 seats, an AYUSH block with 30 beds, residential accommodation for faculty and staff, hostel accommodation for UG and PG students, and a shopping complex among other facilities.