IIIT to be set up in Sonepat

Updated on: Saturday, December 24, 2011

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Indian Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management will soon come up in Sonepat, on the outskirts of Delhi.

The IIIT will be set up at village Kilrod while IIFTEM will come up at Kundli, an official spokesman said. He said establishment of National Institute of Fashion Technology in Haryana was under consideration by the Centre.

He said the Centre had also approved establishment of Indian Institute of Management(IIM) at village Sunaria and classes had started in the temporary campus at Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak. 50 admissions had taken place in 2010-11 and 125 in 2011-12, he said.

Four state-of-the-art institutes - State Institute of Fashion and Design, State Institute of Film and Television, State Institute of Fine Arts and State Institute of Communication - were also established at Rohtak and admissions to these institutes have been made in the current session. Seven polytechnics were also being set up in the state, he added.

IIIT to be set up in Sonepat

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