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A year on, IIM-Sambalpur toils without full-time faculty

Six new IIMs, announced in Budget 2014-15, started academic sessions last year. The first of a three-part series takes stock of IIM-Sambalpur

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Jayajit Dash Sambalpur (Odisha)

5 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2019 | 6:41 PM IST

A year ago, when Amit Abegaonkar from Latur (Maharashtra) walked into the fledgling Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Sambalpur, his experience was barely fulfilling.

Getting into an IIM usually marks the culmination of high career aspiration and raises the bar on all parameters — from academic rigour to infrastructure to exposure and placements. But despite the coveted IIM tag, the institute in Sambalpur is struggling to deliver on many of these aspects.

As of now, IIM Sambalpur is running on rented premises of Silicon Institute of Technology, a private engineering concern, at its Sason campus, some 35-km from Sambalpur, an

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