C N R Rao unhappy over eight new IITs
"Unhappy" over the government's initiative to start eight new IITs "without any planning", Prime Minister's science advisor C N R Rao on Friday said he has begun the "patchwork" to make them viable.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI : "Unhappy" over the government's initiative to start eight new IITs "without any planning", Prime Minister's science advisor C N R Rao on Friday said he has begun the "patchwork" to make them viable.
"You cannot start IITs like that without any planning. I am very unhappy about that," Rao, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Council told reporters here on Friday.
He said he had convened a meeting of the Council yesterday to do some "patchwork" to bring these new institutes to the desired level.
"These institutes have recruited students. There is no campus, no directors, but they have taken students. Now we have to do some patchwork. There was a meeting for that," said a visibly annoyed Rao.
"I, myself, am an IIT passout. It took 55 years for the existing seven IITs to come to a level. But, now in one month, you have eight IITs," he remarked.
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The government has outlined a plan for setting up eight new IITs during 11th Plan. Six of them have started operation from this academic session, while the remaining are expected to start functioning next year. The six new IITs have been started in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Orissa, Punjab and Gujarat. Academic activities in these institutes are either run by certain mentor IITs or in temporary campuses.
The two new IITs will come up in the state of Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. There is a proposal to upgrade Institute of Technology, BHU, into an IIT.
The government has allocated Rs 2,000 crore in the 11th Plan for these institutes.
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