The postgraduate campus of National Institute of Design (NID) in Gandhinagar will be bustling with activity like never before. The Gandhinagar campus will get two more PG courses from the main campus at Paldi and increase the number of its courses from 5 to 7 this year.

NID will shift its PG programmes in 'Photography Design' and 'Transportation and Automobile Design' from the institute's main campus at Paldi to the Gandhinagar campus. The shifting will complete the institute's process of moving its postgraduate (PG) programmes from the institute's main campus at Paldi to the PG campus in Gandhinagar which has been going on in phases.

Talking about the shifting of the PG programmes to its Gandhinagar campus, director of NID, Pradyumna Vyas said, "The plan is to offer disciplines which have UG and PG programmes at the main campus. The rest of the disciplines which have only PG programmes will be shifted to Gandhinagar."

NID's plan to shift the two PG courses this year came with the completion of setting up of students' facilities at its Gandhinagar campus. Vyas said, "Gandhinagar will have all planned facilities by June this year. While hostel accommodation has become limited to undergraduate students at the main campus, we will also be able to provide hostel facilities at the PG campus at Gandhinagar. Apart from that there will be an ecosystem amongst the PG courses. If any new PG programme is introduced in the future, it will be at the campus in Gandhinagar or the Bangalore campus."

After the shifting of the two PG programmes, the Gandhinagar campus will have 7 PG courses including Toy and Game Design, Apparel Design & Merchandising, Lifestyle Accessory Design, New Media Design, Strategic Design Management. The institute's main campus will continue to offer 7 PG courses which also have undergraduate programmes in the same discipline.