By TIOL News Service

NAGPUR, DEC 23, 2024: Information and Broadcasting Secretary, Sanjay Jaju, yesterday appealed to contractors from across the country and Vidarbha region in particular, to take initiative and participate in the bidding process for the construction of the infrastructure of western region campus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) at Amravati.  Jaju took a review of the construction status of IIMC Amravati campus from   the officials of Central Public Works Department-CPWD and also held a meeting with the heads of the offices of Akashvani, Doordarshan, Press Information Bureau and Central Bureau of Communication under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in Nagpur today. He specifically gives instructions to the CPWD officials for speeding up the tendering process   in order to complete this institute which will be instrumental in imparting world class education in the field of mass communication to the students in this region.

Situated in the western Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and established in 2012, IIMC Amravati is an apex institution in the field of media and communication and it is a deemed university under the Ministry of Education and an autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is being constructed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting with a budgetary provision of 90 crore rupees in Badnera town of Amravati district at about 15 acres of land.

Secretary Jaju while giving more information about the construction of this campus said, the tenders are being invited on the CPWD website etender.cpwd.gov.in and the last date for submitting tenders is   27 of this month.  He also expressed hope that the construction of some of the educational facilities in IIMC Amravati would be completed by the academic year 2026-27.

This new educational complex will include administrative and academic buildings, hostels for students, staff quarters as well as an auditorium with 200 seat capacity.    

IIMC has five Regional Centres across the country that offer Journalism courses in English, Hindi and in the local languages. Amravati in Maharashtra Dhenkanal in Odisha, Aizawl in Mizoram, Jamm in Jammu and Kashmir and Kottayam in Kerala currently cumulatively run the Post-Graduate courses in Journalism.

Deputy Director General of Akashvani Nagpur Ramesh Gharde, Chief Engineer of the Central Public Works Department-CPWDSh Pradeep Dixit,Regional Director of IIMC Amravati Dr. Rajesh Kushwaha and other officials were present in this review meeting.