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Government announces the locations of 4 IITs and 6 IIMs
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NewsByte on 28 March, 2008 11:39:00
 
Government today announced the location of four new Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), six new Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and 14 Central
Universities. The new IITs will come up in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and
Punjab, while the IIMs will be set up in Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu,
Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Haryana.
Government has already announced the establishment of four IITs in Andhra
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh and one IIM at Shillong. These
new technical education institutions is a part of the eight IITs and seven IIMs
proposed to be set up under the 11th Five Year Plan. Announcing this, Union
Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh said, "The Prime Minister has approved the
proposals made by us for the location of these four new IITs and six IIMs."
Apart from the IITs and IIMs, the government has also announced to upgrade the
existing institutes. Under the program, the Institute of Technology of the
Banaras Hindu University will be elevated to IIT status, as the admission to
this institute is already based on the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination.
The location of 14 Central Universities, as envisaged in the 11th plan aiming
at world class standards, has also been decided. These varsities will be
established in Pune, Kolkata, Coimbatore, Mysore, Visakhapatnam, Gandhinagar,
Jaipur, Patna, Bhopal, Kochi, Amritsar, Bhubaneswar, Greater Noida and Guwahati.
The locations have been decided keeping in mind the connectivity and the
infrastructure which such universities would need, he said. The state
governments would be requested to identify adequate land in or near the selected
cities, Singh said adding that the contour and shape of such world class
universities would be defined shortly.  Responding to a question, whether the
decision to set up these new institutions was based on political considerations,
Singh said the government has decided on them after taking everything into
consideration. The establishment of new IITs, IIMs and Central Universities was
subject to state governments offering adequate land at suitable locations and
free of cost, Singh added.
Sixteen states which do not have a Central University at present and which will
get one each in the 11th plan are Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh,
Chattisgarh, Punjab, Harayan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Jammu and Kashmir,
Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Goa.  Of these, three
state universities (Dr Hari Singh Gaur University, Sagar in Madhya Pradesh; Guru
Ghasidas University, Bilaspur in Chattisgarh; and Goa University) will be
promoted to Central Universities status.