The decision on IIM site selection, if true, should serve as a lesson for the people of rest of Odisha (Ganjam in particular) that they are second grade citizens and aliens in their own State who are remembered only once in 5 years during elections as they dont enjoy the rights same as the State capital. See how audacious the corrupt BJD Govt in Odisha has been on the IIM issue? The CM has no time to assuage the people of Berhampur who are on hunger strike demanding the establishment of IIM and the decision is being selectively leaked through the media about the decision to establish yet another central Institute in Bhubaneswar, now the IIM.
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Thank goodness that the state government chose the site wisely, without surrendering to regional politics. Let us keep politics away from world class educational institutions. Any location for the upcoming IIM in that state outside Bhubaneshwar city would doom the institution to perpetual mediocrity. No qualified IIM faculty would opt to reside in a small town with no facilities and no IIM aspirant would like to study in such a place either. The IIMs are there to serve the entire state, neighbouring areas of the region and the entire nation.
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