(News) Three New IITs To Offer Courses on Humanities, Health Sciences
Three
New IITs To Offer Courses on Humanities, Health Sciences
The
three new Indian Institutes of Technology
(IITs) coming up in Bihar, Rajasthan
and Andhra Pradesh will not only
teach engineering, but also design and creative arts, management, health
sciences, humanities and social sciences.
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has already given a
go-ahead signal to all the three new IITs to start functioning right from
this academic year from their temporary campuses.
Earlier, in a Planning Commission representatives' meeting, it was proposed that
in order to bring IITs at par with all top universities across the globe,
sufficient time should be given to develop the requisite infrastructure.
However,
Director of IIT, Kanpur pointed out that most of the existing IITs
had started their classes from rented premises. He pointed out that quality of
the faculty is more important than classrooms for making an institute a
world-class institution.
The committee had set at an outlay of Rs.760 crore each over six years in the
three IITs for various routine services. In fact, the Expenditure Finance
Committee (EFC) has only approved creation of the post of director and the
registrar in each institute along with minimum support staff. The HRD ministry
would submit a separate proposal to EFC for support staff.
As
per the decision, each institute will initially have an intake capacity of 200 students,
but when fully developed, the institutes will increase their students' strength
subsequently.
Each
IIT will have a total student strength of about 3,000 students with
approximately 2,000 of them in B.Tech,
500 in M.Tech, 400
in Ph.D and 100 as post-doctoral
fellows.
The plan panel suggests that each of the new IITs will be guided by one of the
existing IITs to enable them to attain high standards of teaching and research.
Every
IIT will have faculty strength of 262 at the end of the seventh year of
operation and will also maintain the teacher-student ratio of 1:9,
as in the case of other IITs.
Courtesy:indiaedunews.net
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