IIM-B's Singapore dreams to come true by year-end

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Bangalore, Mar 15 (UNI) With the controversy surrounding Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore's overseas campus plans dying down, the premier institute is confident of starting academic programmes in its Singapore campus by the year-end.

''We are sorting out legal tangles and amending the Memorandum of Association...Several people have to be informed...The Registrar of Societies, Karnataka, has to approve it,'' IIM-B Director Dr Prakash G Apte told newspersons here today.

It would take another couple of months to put logistics in place and the starting of courses should jibe well with the academic schedule of Singapore, he added.

Dr Apte clarified that the Singapore campus, offering limited courses, would only take up executive programmes and not regular MBA or PhD courses.

Stating that the Institute was not interested in opening new campus in any other foreign land, he, however, admitted that there were many such requests from West Asia. ''First let us concentrate on Singapore, then we will think,'' he said.

The controversy arose when the Union Human Resources Ministry declined permission to the Institute to start overseas campuses, stating that the present rules did not permit it. However, it later changed its stand and said amendments, to the Memorandum of Association can be made to start such campuses.

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