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

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.