IIT Dharwad to start Admission from next year

Updated on: Tuesday, October 06, 2015

IIT-Dharwad, which will have 250 students in its first batch next year, is likely to be mentored by either IIT Bombay or IIT Hyderabad. Initially, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad will function from a temporary campus, sources in the Union HRD ministry said.

The ministry is fine-tuning the aspects of launching the institution, notwithstanding the demand over shifting it to Raichur. Initially, IIT-Dharwad will offer BTech in computer science and electronics and communication, given the spiralling demand for engineers in these disciplines across the country.

HRD ministry said that it is practically impossible for the ministry to change the location now as there is no precedence of such an action having been carried out. Also, entertaining such requests, they say, will open a Pandora's box with other states also trying to exert political pressure for the same purpose.

The varsity will function from the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) building in Dharwad till a permanent campus is built.

A senior MHRD official told TOI that the admission of students will be increased in later years. "IIT Bombay or IIT Hyderabad will mentor their Dharwad sibling," he said adding that the board of governors of IITs and the mentor IIT would look after the recruitment of professors.

On the demand for shifting the IIT to Raichur, the official said, "The site selection committee has chosen Dharwad. It has been finalised as Dharwad has the necessary facilities among the three places identified by the state government."

IIT Dharwad to start Admission from next year

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