IIT aspirants will now have two more campuses to seek admissions this year. IIT campuses at Tirupati and Palakkad will be operational from August first week, offering 240 new seats in total. With the first round of counselling beginning on Thursday , students can opt for the two new IITs while filling in their choices. Among the five IITs that were proposed to be set-up in Jammu, Chattisgarh, Goa, Tirupati and Palakkad this year, these two new campuses will be the first to be operational. They will be mentored by IIT Madras. Each of these campuses will offer 120 students. With the additional seats, a total of 10,006 IIT seats are up or grabs this session.
IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthi, who will be the mentor director for the two new IITs, said the new campuses will offer B.Tech courses in four core branches of civil, computer science, electrical and mechanical engineering with 30 seats allotted for each branch.Senior faculty members P B Sunil Kumar and K N Sathyanarayana will be the professors-in-charge for IIT-Palakkad and IIT-Tirupati respectively, until new directors are appointed.While IIT-Palakkad will open on August 3, the Tirupati campus will be functional from August 5. “Students need not be apprehensive about the quality of the two new IITs as we have worked extensively for the past 10 months to ensure that they will be comparable to all other existing IITs,“ said Ramamurthi. About 12 faculty members will be teaching in each campus which will include visiting professors from IIT-M.
Current and retired IIT professors will be part of the faculty in the new IITs. The director said there were several experienced retired IIT professors willing to teach at the new campuses. Apart from faculty , other aspects such as adequate hostel capacity , well-equipped laboratories and infrastructure have been given attention, he said. Both the IITs will be functional in he temporary campuses for about four years until the permanent campuses spanning across 500 acres are ready . The IIT-Palakkad temporary campus is located in the Ahalia Integrated Campus in Kozhippara while the IIT-Tirupati is situated on the Tirupati-Renigunta Road. Professor in-charge of IIT-Tirupati, K N Sathyanarayana, said they were hoping to develop on the aspect of smart infrastructure which the ministry of human resources department considers as one of the thrust areas of the IITs.
IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthi, who will be the mentor director for the two new IITs, said the new campuses will offer B.Tech courses in four core branches of civil, computer science, electrical and mechanical engineering with 30 seats allotted for each branch.Senior faculty members P B Sunil Kumar and K N Sathyanarayana will be the professors-in-charge for IIT-Palakkad and IIT-Tirupati respectively, until new directors are appointed.While IIT-Palakkad will open on August 3, the Tirupati campus will be functional from August 5. “Students need not be apprehensive about the quality of the two new IITs as we have worked extensively for the past 10 months to ensure that they will be comparable to all other existing IITs,“ said Ramamurthi. About 12 faculty members will be teaching in each campus which will include visiting professors from IIT-M.
Current and retired IIT professors will be part of the faculty in the new IITs. The director said there were several experienced retired IIT professors willing to teach at the new campuses. Apart from faculty , other aspects such as adequate hostel capacity , well-equipped laboratories and infrastructure have been given attention, he said. Both the IITs will be functional in he temporary campuses for about four years until the permanent campuses spanning across 500 acres are ready . The IIT-Palakkad temporary campus is located in the Ahalia Integrated Campus in Kozhippara while the IIT-Tirupati is situated on the Tirupati-Renigunta Road. Professor in-charge of IIT-Tirupati, K N Sathyanarayana, said they were hoping to develop on the aspect of smart infrastructure which the ministry of human resources department considers as one of the thrust areas of the IITs.
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