NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet has approved over Rs 7,000 crore for construction of permanent campuses of six new Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) across the country, an official release said today.
Each of the permanent campuses to be established at Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh), Palakkad (Kerala), Dharwad (Karnataka), Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) and Goa will have a facility for housing 1,200 students from the academic year 2020-2021, it added.
“Cabinet’s nod for the construction of permanent campuses gives six new IITs desired impetus #ExpansionofIITSystem,” Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar wrote on Twitter. (AGENCIES)
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