Eight more IITs approved
NEW DELHI, July 17: As many as eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
would be set up in the country during the current academic session to impart
high quality technical education.
The new IITs would come up in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa,
Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Indore in Madhya Pradesh at an estimated
cost of Rs 6,080 crore, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said after a meeting of
the Union Cabinet.
With the creation of the new IITs, high quality technical education will become
accessible to bright students as hardly two per cent of about three lakh
students, who appear in the Joint Entrance Examination could get admissions in
them, he said.
The Cabinet also approved creation of 30 faculty posts per year in the first
three years of establishment of each of the new IITs, besides approving the
posts of a Director and Registrar.
A decision was also taken to raise the grade of all existing IIT Directors to
Rs 26,000 (fixed) from Rs 25,000 now. The IITs of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and
Gujarat would commence their classes for about 120 students each for B Tech
programmes through temporary campuses and would be monitored by IITs of Madras,
Guwahati and Bombay respectively.
The three IITs of Rajasthan, Punjab and Orissa will start their classes in the
campuses of their mentor IITs at Kanpur, Delhi and Kharagpur respectively,
while the IITs at Indore and Himachal Pradesh will begin their sessions from
the academic session 2009-10. PTI
(The Sentinel,18.07.2008)
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