IISWBM alumni demands alma mater get university status soon

The alumni association of the Indian Institute Of Social Welfare And Business Management (IISWBM), Tuesday demanded their alma mater, the country's oldest B-school, be granted university or deemed university status soon.

IISWBM senior faculty and key alumni member Jhumoor Biswas said, "Getting the deemed university status will help the IISWBM get adequate central funds to carry on research in different fields where our researchers had been undertaking important works in past several decades."
West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, who is the President of Board of Governors of IISWBM, had said in December, "We have had a detailed discussion in the Board of Directors' meeting. All the members have agreed that IISWBM should have the status of a university."