Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday inaugurated the fifth campus of the Birla group-run engineering institute BITS Pilani, with which the national institute of eminence also diversifies into law, management and design.
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The new campus located in the nearby Kalyan area of the megapolis was built with an investment of Rs 1,600-crore. The campus spread across 60 acres with state of art features will accommodate 5,000 students at full capacity.
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The 5th Campus will house its management school-BITSoM, law school-BITSLaW and design school-BITSDES. The new campus is a shift from its core focus of Engineering to Law, Management and Design.
Began in 1964 in Pilani, the native village of the Birlas in the Marward region of Rajasthan, the institute, which was one of the six private institutes elevated as an institute of eminence and houses 80,000 students across its five campuses in Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad, Dubai and Kalyan.
During her inaugural address Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman commended Kumar Mangalam Birla for the establishment of this campus, acknowledging his commitment to excellence in education.Declaring the new campus open, she also added over the years, the institute has produced as many as 7,300 Fortune 500 CEOs, 300 academics of global repute and 600 civil servants. It has also produced 6,200 startups while its incubation centre has spawned 170 startups of which 30 have become unicorns.
