Two new IITs launched, permanent campus awaited!!!

New Delhi/Ahmedabad/Kanpur: India on Saturday opened two new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) as part of plans to add eight such institutes, though both will have to wait for a permanent campus. While the IIT Rajasthan will initially function from the IIT Kanpur campus, the IIT Gandhinagar will function from the Government Engineering College in Chandkheda, near Ahmedabad. Since land is yet to be allotted for the new institute in Rajasthan, the human resource development ministry has asked IIT Kanpur to serve as its mentor institute for the time being. Addressing the first batch of IIT Rajasthan students in Kanpur, Minister of State for Higher Education D Purandeswari said, “The IITs have enjoyed the three basic freedoms of an educational institution - freedom to choose whom to teach, who will teach, and what to teach. The IITs also enjoy full cost budgetary support. The IITs remain successful so long as these amenities continue.”

The new institute is short of faculty and the recruitment process is on. Until this process is over, seven professors and five research assistants from IIT Bombay have been requisitioned for it. U A Yagnik, who teaches physics at IIT Bombay, has been appointed dean of student affairs and academic programme at the new institute. The first batch has 103 students from different parts of the country, studying in the mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering streams. In the next academic year B Tech. courses in civil and computer sciences would be included. The Gujarat government has spent Rs 7 million for upgrading the infrastructure of the engineering college to make it compatible to the IIT standards. The central government's site selection committee headed by Human Resource Development Ministry's Additional Secretary Ashok Thakur is expected to inspect the new site for the proposed permanent campus August 7. As many as eight new IITs are being set up in the country during the current academic session to impart high quality technical education. The new IITs are coming up in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. (IANS)

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