IIT Dharwad in Karnataka to start functioning from next Academic Year

Updated on: Thursday, September 10, 2015

iit The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Dharwad, Karnataka is likely to start functioning from a temporary campus next academic year. To start with the IIT , it will admit a total of 120 students -in mechanical, civil, electrical and computer engineering streams.

This IIT Dharwad in Karnataka state will function from the Water & Land Management Institute (WALMI) campus adjacent to the Karnataka High Court Bench on the Pune-Bengaluru Highway till the construction of a permanent campus, Tripti Gurha, director of IIT, said in a letter to the Karnataka government.

Gruha, however, has set two riders: one, the state should renovate the buildings and quarters at WALMI for which the HRD ministry will bear the cost. Secondly , it should build a wall around the 507-acre land at Mummigatti and Kelageri villages and hand over the land to the union HRD ministry .

BJP MLA Aravind Bellad, quoting R Subrahmanyam, additional secretary (technical education), union department of higher education, said the Centre is very interested on making the IIT functional from 2016-17.

Senior IAS officer P Manivannan, who oversees development works in Dharwad district, Karnataka said the IIT Dharwad, Karnataka can start functioning from WALMI premises. The 135-acre campus has administrative, faculty and residential buildings besides a demonstration farm, most of which are lying unused.

Bellad said WALMI is using only 2 % of its campus. The classrooms in the 50,000 sqft building and hostel facilities for 200 students are available. "It requires some renovation, which can be completed within three months,'' he added.

IIT Dharwad in Karnataka to start functioning from next Academic Year

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