Recently, a new IIT was opened in Gandhinagar, Gujarat which is supported by IIT-Mumbai. In continuation with Government’s decision to open 8 new IIT’s, one more Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has been launched by Minister of State for Higher Education D. Purandeswari.
At present land has not been alloted for the institute and will be operated from the campus of IIT, Kanpur. Within next two years, five more IIT’s will be launched by the centre in various states to churn out more highly technically skilled manpower.