Two new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are likely to start
from the current academic year 2008-09.
The new IITs will come up in Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
"We are seriously considering both the proposals," said a highly place
source at the HRD ministry.
"For Himachal Pradesh we may go for Hamirpur. However, for Madhya
Pradesh there is little technical hurdle but that can be worked out."
On May 30, the ministry had finalised three IITs at Orissa, Punjab and
Gujarat. They are in addition to the ones coming up at Rajasthan,
Andhra Pradesh and Bihar.
Each IIT will have 120 seats, the source said. The mentor IITs for
Punjab will be Delhi IIT, while for Gujarat it would be IIT Mumbai and
for Orissa it is Kharagpur IIT.
For Himachal Pradesh, the mentor IIT will be Roorkee. Mumbai IIT was
supposed to mentor Madhya Pradesh IIT, but it expressed its
inability.
"It is true that Mumbai IIT has expressed its inability to mentor
Madhya Pradesh IIT because it has the responsibility of mentoring IIT
Gujarat beside managing its own centre. So the difficulty is there but
we are trying to work it out," said a senior official in the ministry.
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