11 gone already, more students may leave IIM-Sambalpur over lack of hostels

Institute says Sambalpur University, where it has been housed since April, is refusing to honour an MoU to provide two hostels to its students

Efforts by IIM Sambalpur to curb the exit of students from its campus seem to have come a cropper, with 15 students still languishing in the dormitories of Sambalpur University. Many of them are likely to leave the campus, following the example of 11 who had quit due to lack of hostel facilities. 

Since it did not have its own campus, the Indian Institute of Management-Sambalpur, a new generation IIM, was operating from that of a private engineering college the past three years before being accommodated in a new building in Sambalpur University recently.

However, there is an acute shortage