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IIT Kharagpur plans new campus in Kolkata
Our Bureau
Kolkata
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Oct. 30
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), on Monday announced detailed plans to set up its new Kolkata campus at Rajarhat New Town at an estimated investment of Rs 250 crore.
The West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, will lay the foundation stone of the proposed institute next week. Ten acres of land has already been acquired for the purpose, Mr Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman of the Board of Governors, IIT-KGP, told a news conference here today.
According to Mr Goenka, the first batch of students at the new campus would be admitted in 2008. Over time, the Kolkata campus will benefit 2,000 students. It will provide inter-disciplinary structure to incubation programmes, advanced research & development activities and short-term education programmes. It will have boarding and day boarding facilities as well.
The new campus will focus on areas such as information technology, VLSI & embedded systems, media & communication technologies, information assurance & security, urban & regional informatics, human resource management & business administration and bio-informatics. The new campus will also have incubation facilities to help start-up companies.
Mr Goenka said the Rs 250-crore investment would be generated from internal accruals and grants from the Union Government.
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