Covid-19 impact: IIMs likely to resume classes in August this year

Even as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) begin to release final shortlists from Friday after some delays due to the Covid-19-led lockdown, their new academic sessions are likely to start by August this year.
 

Usually, sessions for new incoming batches for their flagship two-year post graduate programmes in management start by July every year, however, this year most of the IIMs including Ahmedabad and Bangalore are likely to begin the same by August, provided the lockdown ends before that.
 

According to the premier B-schools, the six-month long admission process that usually begins in January with the announcement of Common