IIT Patna, to start from August 6

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Bihar Government is gearing up to ensure the formal launch of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) from its makeshift campus in the Patliputra colony on August 6.

The classes for the first batch of 109 students would begin from the next day after the orientation programme, official sources said.

Union Human Resource Development ministry had already formed a search panel for the Director of the Patna branch they said, adding the Director was likely to be appointed within a month.

The Centre has also approved creation of 30 faculty posts per year in the first three years of establishment of each of the new IITs. However, to begin with, IIT Patna would be fully dependent on its mentor institution, IIT Guwahati, sources revealed.

"We will have 10-12 faculty members here, five of them have already arrived, while the rest will be reaching here in a few days," the Dean of IIT, Patna, S Danpat said.

IIT Guwahati Director, Gautam Barua, who is supervising the project expressed satisfaction over the arrangements being made by Bihar Government for the project.

The Centre has approved the proposed permanent site for IIT, Patna, at Bihta, on the outskirts of Patna, Bihar principal secretary, Science and Technology A V Chaturvedi said.