India, Aug. 19 -- The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the 'Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025,' paving the way for the establishment of a new Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Guwahati, Assam.

The bill adds IIM Guwahati as the 22nd IIM under the Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017, thereby granting it the status of an "institution of national importance."

The bill was passed in the Lok Sabha a day after its introduction, even as the opposition staged protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.

While introducing the bill in the Lok Sabha, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said, "I am here to take permission of Parliament to set up IIM at Guwahati of Assam, which i...