President Murmu inaugurates the permanent Northeast Campus of IIMC in Aizawl

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Campus of IIMC in Aizawl

President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) North East campus located at  Aizawl in Mizoram University in virtual mode on 3 November 2022.

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. 

Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) is a premiere Journalism Institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. 

It was inaugurated in 1965 to cater the training needs of media professionals in the country and other developing countries. 

It has set up five regional center in India to cater the need of five regions of India 

The Regional centers of IIMC are;

Eastern Regional Center   :  IIMC Dhenkanal near Bhubaneswar, Odisha 

Western Regional Center: Amravati, Maharashtra 

Northern Regional Center: Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir 

Northeastern Regional Center: Aizawl, Mizoram 

Southern Regional Center: Kottayam, Kerala 

Headquarters: New Delhi 

Chairman of IIMC: Apurva Chandra, Secretary, Information and Broadcasting Ministry. 

 State of Mizoram 

It was created as a Union Territory on 21st January 1972 by bifurcating Assam.

It was granted statehood on 20 February 1987.

Chief Minister of Mizoram:  PU Zoramthanga

Governor of Mizoram: Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati 

Capital: Aizawl 


 

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