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IIT Kharagpur to expand Kolkata campus

By Arnab Mallick in Chinsurah
February 20, 2006 16:22 IST
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Kolkata will shortly get a much larger extension campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP).

Sishir K Dube, director of IIT-KGP, said, "The government of West Bengal has allotted 10 acres in Rajarhat, Newtown. IIT-KGP will be setting up the extension campus there and the board has cleared the expansion." Currently, IIT-KGP was working on the financial modalities for setting up the new campus.

"IIT is trying to make arrangement for the finance. IIT has a huge expansion plan that would entail huge amount of investment," Dube said on the sidelines of the inauguration of the Techno India Knowledge campus.

IIT-KGP already had its one-acre extension campus in Salt Lake with an intake capacity of 75 students.

Three courses were delivered from its extension campus at present. With the new campus, IIT would be able to take in around 2000 students.

It might also offer several new courses from the new campus.

"The objective is to create second IIT-KGP here in Kolkata," Dube added. The primary objective was to increase academia-industry interface along with promoting high-end research and development (R&D).

"IIT-KGP will also be having high end R&D centre and an incubation centre at the new campus with the objective of promoting R&D suited to industry needs," Dube promised.

"We will try to address issues as per the industry requirement, in addition to regular R&D," he added.

Currently, IIT-KGP accommodated around 6000 students.

This would rise once the new campus assumed final shape.

The Kolkata campus would also help IIT-KGP to get Kolkata-based faculty to help in R&D and other associated projects, Dube said.
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