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Cabinet nod to expand infra, academic capacity of five IITs
State Times
|May 08, 2025
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved expansion of academic and infrastructure capacity of five new IITs which were set up in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Karnataka.
The total cost for the proposed expansion has been pegged at Rs 11,828.79 crore over a period of four years from 2025-26 to 2028-29, an official statement said.
The Cabinet also approved creation of 130 faculty posts at the level of professor in these IITs.
Five new state-of-art research parks are also coming up to strengthen industry-academia linkage, the statement said.
These IITs are located in Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, Palakkad in Kerala, Bhilai in Chhattisgarh, Jammu in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, Dharwad in Karnataka.
This story is from the May 08, 2025 edition of State Times.
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