22.4.10

IIT's to teach medicine

Two months after the Health Ministry snubbed the IITs’ plan to offer courses in medicine, the Union HRD Ministry is all set to amend the IIT Act to allow IITs to start medical schools. IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Madras and the newly set up IIT-Hyderabad are all seriously mulling offering courses in medicine. IIT-Kharagpur had, in fact, signed an MoU with University of California, San Diego, last year to help it set up a medical college.

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