After housing prestigious institutes like Indian Institute of Management, National Institute of Design and National Institute of Fashion Technology, Gujarat is all set to get a satellite campus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay.
The IIT delegation, headed by its director Ashok Misra, met Gujarat officials last week to finalise the plans for setting up the campus. Chief Minister Narendra Modi was also present at the meeting.
The move would boost research in the engineering sector and domestic industries will get quality manpower for direct recruitment from the campus, the officials pointed out.
Gujarat Science and Technology secretary Raj Kumar said IIT-Bombay has asked for 300 acres of land to start the satellite campus.
"The state government is in the process of identifying this big piece of land around Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar," he added.
The Gujarat government will provide the land and infrastructure, while the union human resource ministry is expected to provide construction funding, the officials added.
The expansion plans of IIT-Bombay are part of the HRD ministry's directive to set up one such institute in every state, they said.
The campus will start functioning by July 2007, housed initially either in the L D Engineering College or R C Technical Institute, till the new campus comes up.
