Reviewing the visible progress of the six new IITs
The six new IITs that started classes last year are:
Here are some observations regarding visible progress with respect to these IITs.
- The first three in the above list (Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad and Patna) have their web pages under their own domain names. The other three use their mentor’s domain names.
- Among the web pages, IIT Hyderabad and IIT Patna have the most information; IIT Bhubaneswar has the least.
- IIT Patna is the only one that has already hired permanent faculty.
- IIT Hyderabad is the only one to admit Ph.D students. Since they do not have permanent faculty, it is a bit strange that they have Ph.D students. I guess either the Ph.D students will pursue their thesis with advisor from IIT Madras or they will be doing course work now and pick their advisors after permanent faculty is hired.
- IIT Hyderabad seems to be the most ready to start building their campus. IIT Bhubaneswar seems to be the next in line.
- IIT Bhubaneswar has managed the promise of most amount of land (mentioned as 891 acres in some reports; but mentioned as 935 acres in the important reports) from the state government. The other new IITs are getting the bare minimum (about 500 acres) that the central government prescribed.
- IIT Rajasthan is the only one for which even the city where it will be located is not decided.
- Among the new IITs, IIT Bhubaneswar seems to be best located in terms of the local neighborhood. It is 4 kms from the Khurda Rd station (which is 19 kms south of Bhubaneswar station), a major Railway junction, 25 kms from the existing Bhubaneswar airport and even closer (12 kms) to the location of the future Bhubaneswar airport, and is 2-3 kms from NISER (National Institute of Science Education and Research). The location parameters of the other new IITs are as follows:
- IIT Hyderabad: 537 acres, 50 kms from Secunderabad railway station, 55 kms from Hyderabad station, 60 kms from airport; on NH-9 (Hyderabad-Pune highway).
- IIT Patna: 500-550 acres at Amhara on Bihta-Aurangabad Rd; said to be 25 kms from heart of Patna
- IIT Gandhinagar: 500 acres in Nasmed Village (near Thol Lake) in Gandhinagar district
- IIT Rupnagar : 500 acres, 42 kms from Chandigarh by road; 60 kms from Chandigarh airport; Rupnagar Railway station is on the Delhi-Ambala-Una line.
- IIT Indore: 500 acres at Mhow, 25 km from Indore
- IIT Mandi: 530 acres in Kamand in the Drang area; 15 kms from Mandi and around 45 kms from the Bhuntar airport.
The older IITs are located as follows:
- IIT Bombay: 550 acres
- IIT Delhi: 320 acres
- IIT Madras: 620 acres
- IIT Kanpur: 1055 acres
- IIT Kharagpur: (wikipedia says 2100 acres; a few other places say 1400 acres)
- IIT Roorkee: 356 acres
- IIT Guwahati: (most places say 705 acres; a couple of places say 785 acres)
3 comments February 15th, 2009