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IIT-Gujarat will operate from coming academic year
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NewsByte on 29 May, 2008 12:24:16
 
The Gujarat government on Wednesday received a formal approval from the Central
government to set up Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the state.
The state government has decided to make the IIT functional from the coming
academic year, an official release quoting government spokesperson and Health
minister Jaynarayan Vyas said.
The Central Human Resource Development Ministry had recently announced setting
up of new IITs in which they had agreed to set up one in Gujarat.
IIT will provide a five-year B Tech degree programme with 40 seats each in
three branches of engineering - Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical, Vyas said.
At present, the IIT will be located in the Vishwakarma Government Engineering
College campus at Chandkheda in Gandhinagar district where the necessary
infrastructural support is already in place.
In 2007,  IIT-Mumbai had opened its extension centre here which provides
courses on developing skills in engineering education.
The state government has already allotted land for the IIT-Gujarat in the
Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad Knowledge Corridor, but till the construction is
completed, the IIT will function from the 50,000 sq ft Vishwakarma College
campus, Vyas said.