New Delhi, Aug 7 : The country will get four new Indian Institutes of Mass Communication (IIMC) from next academic year.
The new institutes will come up in Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Vidarbha in Maharashtra and Aizwal in Mizoram, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni announced today.
The government has acquired 15 acres of land for each on the campuses and the initial funding would be done by the state governments, she said at the annual convocation ceremony of the IIMCs here.
Apart from this, the existing PG diploma course in IIMCs in Delhi and Dhenkanal is also being made into a two-year one and the institute has approached the University Grants Commission to recognise it as a degree course.
The institute was also introducing new courses in developmental journalism and corporate communications.
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