3 new IIIT would start operating from the upcoming academic year

Updated on: Monday, December 14, 2015

iiit Three new Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) would start operating from the upcoming academic year. The IIITs are set to start functioning from 2016-2017 in Ranchi, Nagpur and Pune. All three campuses will have 120 seats; admissions will be made through Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).

According to reports, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Memorandum of Association (MoA) was signed by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry and state government with some private players for setting up of the three IIITs.

Here are key highlights of the IIIT project:

A budget of Rs 128 crore has been allotted to the IIIT project
The industry partners in setting up of the institutes are TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), TATA Motors Ltd and Central Coalfield Ltd (CCL)
IIIT-Ranchi

IIIT-Ranchi will operate from the Old Judicial Academy in the Administrative Training Institute. The institution will be mentored by NIT-Jamshedpur
The institute will have 120 seats, 60 each for information technology and electronics and communication stream
IIIT-Nagpur

IIIT-Nagpur will be set up temporarily on BMIT Campus. BMIT will be the mentor institution
The insititute is likely to admit 120 students in CSE and ECE branches in 2016
IIIT-Pune

IIIT-Pune will temporarily function from Siddhant Engineering College and a permanent campus will be constructed at Chakan soon

The institute will start functioning under the mentorship of the College of Engineering (COE), Pune and 120 students will be admitted in 2016
According to the MoU and MoA, the central government would bear 50 per cent, state government would bear 35 per cent and the three industry partners would bear 15 per cent of the total budget.

3 new IIIT would start operating from the upcoming academic year

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