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IIT Palakkad, Tirupati announce admissions
Chennai, June 24
The two new IITs -- Palakkad
and Tirupati -- are set to receive the first batch of studentsf or the
academic year 2015-2016, a statement said on Wednesday.
The two
new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), being mentored by IIT
Madras, will receive 120 students each and will offer B.Tech courses in
civil, computer science, electrical and mechanical engineering with 30
seats in each branch.
The government had announced the setting up of five new IITs in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Goa and Jammu.
"We
have planned and worked extensively over the past ten months to ensure
that when we begin classes in August 2015, we give the first batch of
students an educational and living experience comparable to that at any
existing IIT," said IIT Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthi, who will be
the mentor director of the new institutions till director is appointed
by the ministry of human resource development.
Senior faculty
members P.B. Sunil Kumar and K.N. Satyanarayana have been appointed as
professor-in-charge for IIT Palakkad and IIT Tirupati respectively.
The institutes at present will function out of temporary premises with adequate hostel capacity.
Students can avail IIT Palakkad and IIT Tirupati as an option while filling their online choices from June 25.
Classes
at both the IITs will begin during the first week of August 2015.The
statement said that the sites for the permanent campus have been
identified for both IITs and the respective state governments were in
the process of handing over the land.