HRD Minister Smriti Irani Inaugurated IIM Bodh Gaya Campus

Updated on: Thursday, September 03, 2015

The HRD (Human Resource Management) minister Smriti Irani, formally inaugurated the academic session of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bodh Gaya in Bihar on Monday.

State education minister P.K. Shahi said the Magadh University administration has made available 119 acres on its campus for the B-school. The process of land transfer in the name of the committee constituted for IIM-Bodhgaya has to be completed.

HRD (Human Resource Management) minister Smriti Irani inaugurated the new academic session of IIM.
For the first batch students of the IIM-Bodhgaya , 90 hostel rooms have been allotted for accommodation. Also, for the time being a IIM Calcutta will serve as the mentor institution for IIM BodhGaya for a year.

HRD minister Smriti Irani, also inaugurated IIM-BodhGaya transit campus at Magadh University's (MU) directorate of distance education (DDE) building. HRD (Human Resource Management) minister Smriti Irani, also laid the foundation stone of seven buildings of the Central University of South Bihar (CUSB) campus at Panchanpur near Gaya town and asked the CUSB authorities to adopt at least five villages around the university and ensure all-round development there.

The university has given around 20,000 sq ft of space spread over two floors of the DDE building for the IIM BodhGaya temporary campus. The second and the third floors would be used as administrative and academic blocks, respectively. The academic sessions at the IIM BodhGaya, started over two months late but the authorities hope to compensate the lost time. 

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