The Army Institute of Management inaugurated a slew of public utility services outside their gates in New Town, on Independence Day. “Many hawkers frequent this area and the lack of toilets was a cause of concern for them. So we have built toilets and a filtered water cooler for them. It has all come up in a complex called Pratikshalay, outside our gates,” said director of the college, Major General (retd) Arun Sapra.
The complex will serve as a bus stop as well as a place for online-delivery boys to wait while residential students walk up from their rooms to pick up their orders. “A bank is setting up an ATM at Pratikshalay and we are requesting them to install a water ATM too,” said Sapra. This would enable users to get mineral water in exchange of coins inserted into the machine.
Army Institute of Management is an MBA college that has recently shifted into New Town, opposite Uniworld City’s Downtown Mall.
Sapra hoisted the National Flag — not on the ground but — above the portico of their main building, three stories high.
The college has for the first time adopted a flag of its own which was aflutter next to the Indian flag and that of the Army Welfare Education Society, which runs the institute. The management also planted some Mango trees on the campus on the occasion.