IIMs set to take in extra students

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year Ahmedabad25028012 Bangalore2502708 Calcutta3003186 Lucknow30034515 Indore1801958 Kozhikode18020212  IIM Kozhikode, too has its infrastructure in place to accommodate the new students for this year.  The institute admitted 180 students last year and this year the strength would increase by another 22 students making it a total of 202 students. IIM Lucknow also has space available to increasing the student number by 45 seats, which it will accommodate in its existing five sections.  However, IIM Indore is not yet ready with the infrastructure and has decided to make the students share the hostels. It will be adding only 15 more students on the campus this academic year. The institute had already expanded the student strength from 120 to 180 last year.  Says S P Parashar, director, IIM Indore, "Space is a problem for us. This year it is not a substantive increase so we have decided that we will add five more students to the existing class capacity of 60 students across our three sections. "  On the faculty front, the institute has 30 faculty right now. It needs 10 more and has already recruited seven of them. For the next year, the institute will increase the student strength by 60 per cent and for the year after, 100 per cent.  IIM Calcutta has converted few flats of its faculty building to accommodate more students.  The student strength at the institute will increase by six per cent (18 more students) in its existing capacity of 300 students.  The institute had already increased the batch size last year from 250 to 300 students. While this year IIM-C will 'adjust', the institute has already started planning for the next two years when it will roll out 30 per cent and 18 per cent quota. It has assigned the campus development plan to an architect.  The institute had plans to develop a satellite campus in Salt Lake City in Calcutta, but with the quota coming in force, it dropped the plans and instead asked the state government for 50 acres of land near its existing campus.  (With inputs from Archana Mohan in Ahmedabad)