New Delhi: This year, the session at Indian Institute of Management - Ranchi (IIM-R) would become operational with classes starting June or July. On Friday i.e. February 5, 2010, R.C. Bhargava has made the announcement that IIM-Ranchi classes would start from June or July this year. The process to select the students would be done through Common Admission Test (CAT). There would be 60 to 70 students in the first batch. The annual fees would be Rs 3 lakh.
Further, Mr Bhargava has mentioned that IIM - Calcutta will ensure faculty and provide syllabus to IIM-R. Besides visiting professors, the IIM-R students will get education through audio visual methods and other multimedia methods, including video conferencing. As per sources, the classes of the IIM-R will start at fifth floor of Soochna Bhawan of Information and Public Relation Department (IPRD), Ranchi. Moreover, Jharkhand Human Resources Development (HRD) secretary Mridula Sinha assured that the state government would extend all possible facilities to IIM-R.
