Kolkata based Techno India plans to invest investing Rs 500 crore by 2012 in
the higher education sector. The expansion is likely to be funded by internal
accruals and financial institutions.
The company intends to set up 25 new campuses by 2012. It is already setting
up two new hospitals on EM Bypass and Barrackpore. It has also got land near the
Indian Institute of Management campus in Kolkata, where it plans to set up a
medical and a dental college.
Besides, plans are afoot to set up a university in association with the
Techno Global University, Shillong.
This apart, the company has been allotted 25 acre in Agartala by the Tripura
Government. It plans to set up engineering and medical colleges there.