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International Management Institute has started two of its campuses in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa and Kolkata, West Bengal. The colleges will start their admission processes soon.

This is aimed at reducing the gap between demand and supply of quality education in Orissa and West Bengal as both the states have only a few management schools like XIM at Bhubaneshwar, XLRI at Jamshedpur and IIM at Calcutta.

The school is promoted by the Rs170 billion RPG Group having diverse business interests. It aims at achieving excellence in management education and research through continuous competency building. It has its old campuses in Delhi and Geneva (now IMD, Lausanne).

The new campuses will offer PGDM programmes based on industry-oriented curriculum. The campuses expect to get approval from the apex body, All India Council for Technical Education, in May this year and start their programmes two months hence.

Each of the new IMIs will have independent directors with the board of governors having a number of common members including Chairman Sanjiv Goenka.