21.5.15

IIITs in Pune, Nagpur

The Maharashtra state cabinet cleared the proposal to set up Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) in Pune and Nagpur. The new institutes will admit students and star functioning from academic year 2016-17.
The IIIT in Pune is expect ed to come up in the Chakan industrial belt. In January 2013, when the state government had invited expression of interest from industry partners for the project, the department of higher and technical education had asked the Pune district collector to identify land in and around Chakan.
Resident district collector Suresh Jadhav said that the collector's office had sent a proposal to the state government about six months ago, identifying Nanoli Tarf village near Chakan as the project site. “About 40 acre land was identified at Nanoli Tarf in consultation with the state director of technical education and a spot inspection of the site,“ Jadhav said.
The Pune and Nagpur projects are part of the 20 new IIITs being set up across the country in a phased manner between 2011-12 and 2019-20 by the ministry of human resources development in a not-for-profit public-private partnership mode.
The IIITs are the brainchild of Indian IT industry body , National Association of Software and Services Com pany (Nasscom), which, in 2008, first mooted the idea of dedicated research-based institutes catering to the human resources required by industries. Nasscom then submitted a project report to the HRD ministry and an expert panel under senior IT professional T V Mohandas Pai was assigned to recommend steps to implement the IIIT scheme.
According to the cabinet decision, the new institutes in the state will be funded by the central and the state governments and private industry partners in the ratio of 50:35:15, respectively , and each of the two IIITs will involve a capital cost of Rs.128 crore.
The not-for-profit public-private partnership mode provides for a tripartite agreement between the central, state and the identified industry partner for the project, in relation to the funding pattern and how to implement the project.
For the IIIT in Pune, the state has finalised two Mumbai-based companies and one company from Pune as industry partners. Rolta India Limited and Hubtown Limited are from Mumbai, while Quick Heal Technology Private Limited is located in Pune. For the project in Nagpur, the state has finalised ADCC, Nagpur, and Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Mumbai as industry partners.

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