IIIT proposal approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC)
November 19th, 2010
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Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development
19-November-2010 17:27 IST
Setting up of New IIITs
The Government of India has a proposal to set up 20 new Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IITs) in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. The proposal has been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC). The locations and other details of new IIITs will depend upon the response of the State Governments & Industry partners.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Smt. D. Purandeswari, in written reply to a question, in the Rajya Sabha today.
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Entry Filed under: Berhampur-Gopalpur-Hinjilicut area (3),IIIT, Berhampur (proposed),NITs, IIITs
1 Writeup
1. Abhisek | November 20th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
The State CM met HRD Minister Shri Kapil Sibal couple of weeks ago and riased all issues except the demand for IIIT. While inside the state his cabinet colleagues are going to town declaring that the state has identified 100 acres of land near Berhampur for 2nd IIIT of the state. Even the state IT Secretary said so few months ago in a business summit. Now there is lot of confusion regarding the approach of the state Govt and hope it doesn’t face the fate of ESIC where people want something and centre want something else due to lack of proper coordination by the state government. This not only hurts the sentiments of the people but proves that the state govt. is not serious on these issues that concern lot of people.