No proposal to set up new IIT in country: Education Ministry

The information was shared by Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar with the Lok Sabha in a response to a written question. 

No proposal to set up new IIT in country: Education Ministry

The Ministry of Education has said that there is no proposal to establish new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the country. The information was shared by Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar with the Lok Sabha in a response to a written question. 

“Presently, there is no proposal to establish any new IIT in the country,” he said. It must be noted that in the Budget for the year 2014-15, the government announced the setting up of five new IITs in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir and Goa, was announced. Similarly, in the 2015-16 Budget, the setting up of an IIT in Karnataka and the upgradation of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad into an IIT were announced.

“Accordingly, new IITs at Tirupati and Palakkad started their academic session in 2015 and IITs at Bhilai, Jammu, Goa and Dharwad started in 2016. In the state of Uttar Pradesh, IIT Kanpur and IIT (BHU), Varanasi are operational,” Sarkar said.

The government had also approved the "operationalisation of the six new IITs from their temporary campuses at a cost of INR 1,411.80 crore and later, the establishment of permanent campuses of these IITs under Phase-A at a total cost of INR 7,002.42 crore subsuming the balance cost of the funds approved for temporary campuses."

The Centre has earlier requested the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi to explore the possibility of setting up a campus in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the education ministry said in the Lok Sabha.

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