bhubaneswar iit bhubaneswar iitbbs will start functioning from its permanent campus at argul village on the outskirts of the city from july 20 director of the institute ratnam varada rajakumar said here on sunday he said students will move into the hostels on the new campus from the new academic year besides a section of nonteaching staff and a few faculty members will be accommodated on the campus though classes will continue at toshali plaza for the time being we will soon start a medical facility on the new campus since the hospital building is not ready it will function from the guesthouse the director said for seamless transport from the permanent campus to toshali plaza buses will ply every hour on working days the director said makeshift sports facility for the students were ready and finishing touches given to the boundary work currently iitbbs functions from eight disjointed locations when the construction started in november 2011 the institute had december 2013 deadline for the firstphase work creating facility for 2500 students 250 faculty members and 275 support staff master plan of the campus was designed to accommodate 10000 students 1000 faculty 1100 nonteaching employees besides 1000 outsourced support staff the centre approved construction of 2 21000 square metre of covered area 63000 square metre for academic complex and 1 58000 square metre for residential complex in the first phase for which it had released rs 450 crore currently the institute has over 900 students and more than 90 faculty members