The IIT (D)team’s visit was finalised on the sidelines of a two-day event of all 23 IITs in India to commemorate the 75th year of India’s Independence
A high-level team of faculty members from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will be visiting Abu Dhabi later this month to take forward the joint vision of the two countries to establish an IIT campus in the UAE, according to Gulf News.
The IIT (D)team’s visit was finalised on the sidelines of a two-day event of all 23 IITs in India to commemorate the 75th year of India’s Independence. The two-day event, IInvenTiv ( IIT innovations), featured 75 projects by 23 IITs in India.
India’s Minister for Education and Skill Development, Dharmendra Pradhan, spoke about future plans for IITs at the event. “Technology will drive the next phase of growth and development with information technology and communications technology among the front-runners. Our IITs should seize this opportunity,” he said.
Only 20 per cent of students in the overseas IIT campuses will be Indians while the remaining seats will be set apart for local students, according to a recommendation by a committee of experts to the IIT Council Standing Committee
The proposal to set up an IIT campus in the UAE was announced in principle on February 18, 2022. Since then, the two sides have been working out the modalities of following up the proposal. In fact, the IIT(D) has a small team stationed in Abu Dhabi to work out the implementation of the proposal.
Professor V Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras, told local media that overseas expansion of IITs has been put on the “fast track” and hoped to open the Abu Dhabi campus along with the ones in Malaysia and Tanzania within one year.
Only 20 per cent of students in the overseas IIT campuses will be Indians while the remaining seats will be set apart for local students, according to a recommendation by a committee of experts to the IIT Council Standing Committee.
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