PM Modi: Northeast gateway to security, prosperity

Shillong: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the Northeast is a gateway to security and prosperity instead of just a border area at the frontier

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also inaugurated the new campus of the Indian Institute of Management Shillong.
Established in 2007 by the Ministry of Education) as the 7th B-school in India, IIM-Shillong could establish itself as an Institute of National Importance and had been serving in many ways for the development of the North Eastern Region besides being known for its academic prudence in management education.
“Professional institutions like IIM Shillong will be beneficial for NE region. The presence of such institutions will make way for ways and means of livelihood,” the Prime Minister said.
With IIM and the technology park education, earning opportunities will increase in the region, the Prime Minister informed that Northeast is witnessing the construction of more than 150 Eklavya schools out of which 39 are in Meghalaya.
The State-of-the-art infrastructure in its new campus will have facilities that will open up many opportunities for hosting academic programs for both national and international students and management development engagements.
IIM Shillong’s Knowledge Centre in the new campus will be one of the most fully-automated libraries in India, with more than 40 databases accessible to students, scholars and faculty members as E-resources.
It will also provide access to students, faculty, and local policymakers and bureaucrats to more than 17,000 E-journals.
Thanking Prime Minister Modi for inaugurating the new IIM-Shillong campus, Director IIM Shillong, Prof. DP Goyal said, “IIM Shillong is a think-tank, that serves the entire north-eastern region in addition to being a business school. This New campus will enable us to enrol more students, do more research, and work harder and more efficiently to achieve prosperity on India’s North-Eastern states, an aim that is very high on the Prime Minister’s priority list.”
With a vision of integrated perspective of research and academic capabilities, envisioned by Prime Minister Modi in the Global VAIBHAV summit 2020, IIM Shillong signed MOUs with 16 International universities and shall be working towards global collaborations.
With 63 students enrolled in the Post-Graduate Program (PGP) in 2008 IIM Shillong has grown to enroll 309 students and produce over 2,500 graduates now working for prominent companies all over the world. (UNI)