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Mumbai/New Delhi, 24 February (HS). Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday inaugurated the fifth campus of Birla Group-run engineering institute BITS Pilani. With this, courses in law, management and design have been included in this prestigious institute.
Sitharaman inaugurated the fifth campus of Birla Group's engineering institute BITS Pilani here by lighting the lamp. After this, the Finance Minister in his address said that the institute has produced 7,300 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in 'Fortune 500', 300 academicians of global repute and 600 civil servants. It has also produced 6,200 startups while its 'incubation centres' have given birth to 170 startups, of which 30 have become 'unicorns', the finance minister said.
On this occasion, Group Chairman and Chancellor of the institute, Kumar Mangalam Birla said in his address that the entire capacity of this Rs 1,600 crore campus, spread over 60 acres, located in Kalyan area near the metropolis, is for 5 thousand students. This new campus of BITS Pilani institute focuses on law, management and design, away from its core area of engineering. The design school was started only last week, while the law and management schools were operating in temporary premises in Powai since last year.
Earlier, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman traveled from Ghatkopar to Kalyan in Mumbai local train. During this he interacted with the passengers. At the same time, a video is going viral on social media, in which Nirmala Sitharaman can be seen answering the questions of the passengers.
It is noteworthy that this institute, which was started in the year 1964 in Pilani, the ancestral village of the Birla family in the Marwar region of Rajasthan, has five campuses, the major ones being Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad, Dubai and Kalyan, where 80 thousand students study.