New Delhi, Aug 7 - The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Punjab will start functioning from its new campus August 20, after an year of parenting at the IIT Delhi.

The institute will function with last year's batch and the new batch of around 240 students in three disciplines from Rupnagar (formerly Ropar), around 60 km from Chandigarh.

'The institute will start operation with 11 teachers and around 15 professors of IIT Delhi will continue to help them in taking classes,' IIT Delhi Director Surendra Prasad said Friday.

He said though the institute is starting out of a polytechnic building, the facilities are not bad. 'I am telling you, the campus is not bad.