To offer post graduate diploma courses in English Journalism and Digital Media besides short duration media & communication courses
IndiGlobal Bureau
President of India Draupadi Murmu inaugurated the permanent North-East Campus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), North East at Aizawl on Friday. The Campus shall be running the post graduate diploma courses in English Journalism and Digital Media besides short duration media & communication courses.
Speaking on the occasion, the President said “I am happy to inaugurate the permanent campus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Aizawl which will be a boost to the media and mass communication studies in the entire North East.”
The IIMC North East Campus began functioning in 2011 from a temporary building made available by Mizoram University. The construction work for the campus began in 2015 and was completed in 2019. The total cost is Rs 25 crores. Since its inception, the campus has offered a PG Diploma course in English Journalism for which most of the students come from other parts of India and some from the North East States.
The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, is a premiere Institute of Journalism in the country. With the main Campus in New Delhi, IIMC has five regional campuses at Dhenkanal in Odisha, Aizawl in Mizoram, Jammu in J&K, Kottayam in Kerala and Amravati in Maharashtra.
The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi was inaugurated in 1965 to cater to the training needs of media professionals in the country and other developing countries. It has ever since functioned as a training institute for the Indian Information Service also.