Eight new IITs to start functioning this year: Chidambaram news
17 July 2008

Mumbai: Eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to impart high quality technical education would be up and running in the country during the current academic session.

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 Rs6,080 crore, finance minister P Chidambaram said after a cabinet meeting.

The new IITs are expected to make high quality technical education accessible to more 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, he said, adding, the registrar would henceforth would draw a fixed salary of Rs26,000 against the current Rs25,000.

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 mentored 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, he said.


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Eight new IITs to start functioning this year: Chidambaram