When the flyover in front of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) was thrown open to public three years ago, apart from being an eyesore, it had belittled the status of India's premier institute by depriving it of an open entrance -a feature of most landmark institutions across the globe. But IIMA has decided to use the bridge to its advantage now by changing the entry gates of the heritage campus and the new campus in a way that the bridge becomes a link be tween the two. IIM-A authori ties said that the en trance to the old campus would be shifted to the point where the flyover begins. Similarly , the entrance to the new IIM-A campus would be shifted to the end of the flyover near Vastrapur village. The flyover would then effectively become the bridge between the two IIM-A campuses. Professor Ashish Nanda, the director of IIM-A, said: “Both entrances will be changed in the sec ond phase of the IIM-A expansion plan.Then the bridge will actually become a nice way to go from one entry way to the other.“

When the flyover was inaugurated in February 2014, it had irked the IIM-A community which believed that the flyover had dampened the iconic beauty of the Louis Kahn designed campus. Even before the flyover could take off from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation drawing board in 2008-09, IIM-A authorities, led by the director at the time, Samir Baruah, had vehemently protested against its construction. Reams of letters were written to the central and the state governments about the flyover posing a security risk as IIM-A was on the hit-list of terror groups in 2004 and 2006. The IIM flyover was also the only flyover that was at a right angle to the other three bridges between Sola AEC Crossroads and Shivranjani. All these are parallel to the Ring Road. Also peculiar was the fact that the flyover opened at a bot tleneck of the Vas trapur village.