new delhi the indian institute of mass communication iimc has got a permanent northeastern regional campus at aizawl that would help students from the region planning to pursue higher studies in journalism and digital mediapresident droupadi murmu on thursday inaugurated the campus that will offer postgraduate diploma courses in english journalism and digital media besides shortduration media and communication courseswith the main campus in new delhi iimc has five regional campuses at dhenkanal in odisha aizawl in mizoram jammu in jk kottayam in kerala and amravati in maharashtrathe regional campuses have been set up with an aim of catering to different regions and meeting the need of media education across the countrythe iimc north east campus began functioning in 2011 from a temporary building made available by the mizoram universitythe iimc permanent campus on eight acres of land given by the mizoram university has separate administrative and academic buildings along with hostels and staff quarterssince its inception the campus is offering pg diploma course in english journalism for which most of the students come from other parts of india and some from north eastern statesi am happy to inaugurate the permanent campus of indian institute of mass communication aizawl which will be a boost to the media and mass communication studies in the entire north east the president saidshe said that iimc provides a dynamic learning and working environment which nurture new ideas creativity research and develops leaders and innovators in the domain of media and mass communication