Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates permanent campus for BITS Law School

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has inaugurated a state-of-the-art law school campus of BITS Pilani in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (near Kalyan), in the presence of the Chancellor of BITS Pilani, Kumar Mangalam Birla..This is the fifth campus of BITS Pilani and will house its law school, BITSLAW, alongside the management school, BITSoM and design school, BITSDES.BITSLAW is an institution aimed at transforming legal education through a focus on legal writing, scholarly research, and a student-centric approach. It offers a BA LLB and a BBA LLB programme..Speaking at the inauguration, Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister, said, “I congratulate Kumar Mangalam Birla for setting this campus. You have a tradition of excellence in education. BITS Pilani has always been a centre where very many young people in India always aspire to be. You can have institutions and institutions where students can enrol, study and pass out and also manage to excel in their fields, but to make available a very complex set of courses, make it also market relevant, give them the ability and skills required so that they can be readily recruited and be of value to the institutions is something which is seen as a USP of BITS Pilani. I wish the fifth campus all the very best and it is continuing with the tradition of high quality education for the aspiring Indian youth.”.Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chancellor, BITS Pilani, said, “I thank the Honourable Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, for inaugurating a new chapter in BITS Pilani’s glorious tradition. At BITS, we stand at the precipice of blending India’s rich heritage of education with new-age knowledge systems and modern learning environments. This globally benchmarked campus is a visible marker of India’s growing intellectual prowess and a symbol of BITS Pilani’s whole-hearted embrace of multi-disciplinary education and innovation. I am certain that the new campus will create an enabling environment that sparks creativity, excellence, and collaboration, emerging in the process as a talent factory for the New India envisioned by our Honourable Prime Minister.”.Spread over 63 acres and with an investment of ₹1,500 crore, the newly set up campus is slated to be a future-ready, all-residential campus designed to accommodate 5,000 students at peak capacity, as per a press release.With a vision to work towards a zero-carbon footprint, it has been built on a zero-discharge scheme with 100 percent recycled water utilisation, energy-saving lighting systems and solar power. The digital-first campus has state-of-the-art infrastructure for classrooms, multimedia studios (including video and podcast rooms), and a startup incubation centre. It also boasts of 80 percent open, aesthetically landscaped lush green spaces, and sports and recreation facilities for students.