Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology upgraded to state university

Updated on: Friday, June 14, 2013

Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology has been upgraded to a state university and will now be known as Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University. Inaugurated on Thursday, it is the first technical institute for women in the country. Formerly under Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, it shares its Kashmere Gate campus with Ambedkar University, and like it, will be a non-affiliating university.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit who inaugurated it, said, "I hope this will outshine all the technical institutes in Delhi." The upgrade takes the number of state universities in Delhi to five."The government will try to give more land so that the university can have a larger campus", said Dikshit.

Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology was established in 1998 as the first engineering college for women in Delhi. The university is launching MTech programmes in five courses for the 2013 round of admissions. This includes information security management, VLSI design, mobile and pervasive computing, robotics and automation and electronics and communication - the last being a weekend programme.

The intake per course will be 30 and forms can be bought from branches of Punjab and Sind Bank in Delhi. "We are planning four new industry-linked Mtech programmes," the vice-chancellor, Nupur Prakash, said.

Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology upgraded to state university

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