Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank lays foundation stone of IIT Palakkad main campus
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has laid the foundation stone for the main campus of IIT Palakkad.
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has laid the foundation stone for the main campus of IIT Palakkad. The event was also attended by the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The ministers also inaugurated the transit campus named Nila campus during the virtual event. The felicitation address was delivered by the Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan; Kerala Higher Education Minister and other dignitaries.
While speaking on the occasion the Minister said that IIT Palakkad had made rapid progress since inauguration in 2015. The institute has grown immensely in the past half a decade and is now home to 640 undergraduate 225 postgraduate and 132 Doctoral students.
Mr Pokhriyal added that the Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) has been allocated Rs 2,200 crore in the 2020 budget to oversee and administer research and education infrastructure in higher education institutes. This focus is also reflected in the recently introduced New Education Policy (NEP 2020).
IIT Palakkad is one of the new IITs that came into existence post the 2014 Union Budget. The college currently operates from the temporary campus at the Ahalia Integrated campus in Kozhippara, Palakkad and the permanent campus in Kanjikode. Both the campuses are around 13 km apart and have state of the art infrastructure and learning facilities. The institute offers more than 10 courses across the streams of Science and Engineering. Currently, IIT Palakkad offers BTech programmes in four disciplines of Engineering -- Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Science. Additionally, the institute has also started the Masters programmes inclusive of MS (by Research), MTech, and MSc. The MS programmes were added in 2017and the MTech and MSc programmes were introduced in 2019.
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