Classes at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bodhgaya, would tentatively start from the second week of August from its transit campus of Magadh University's (MU) directorate of distance education (DDE) building.

Union human resource development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani is likely to inaugurate the transit campus before the first batch classes begin. A senior education department official said: "The education department has written a letter to the Union HRD, inviting minister Smriti Irani to inaugurate the new IIM campus."

Renovation and construction work is on in full swing at the DDE building for the launch of the academic session. MU vice-chancellor Mohammed Ishtiaq said: "We have given around 20,000sqft spread across two floors of the DDE building for the IIM temporary campus. The second and the third floors would be used as the administrative and academic blocks, respectively."

The MU administration has allotted 90 rooms from its hostel block to accommodate IIM students. Each room would have a bed, a study table and a cupboard. The ground floor of the hostel block would have a dining hall, while the first floor would house a common room and second floor would have a recreation room, which would offer indoor games facilities and a television. Twelve rooms of the MU guesthouse would be used to accommodate faculty members.

The education department's invitation to Irani gains importance, as on June 24, the Union cabinet had approved the setting up of six new IIMs in the country, which would offer courses from the ensuing academic session.

IIM-Calcutta, being the mentor institution of IIM-Bodhgaya, has advertised for admission of students in its postgraduate programme batch for 2015-17 and for admission in Bodhgaya campus on its website. Sources said 60 students would be admitted on the basis of the Common Admission Test (CAT) score.