The Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today laid the foundation stone for setting up three premier educational institutions — IIT, IIIT, IISER — in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Union Minister for Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu were also present at foundation laying ceremony of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT).
The union minister laid foundations for IIT and IISER, to come up at Erpedu near the temple city of Tirupati and IIIT to come up at Sri City in Satyavedu, about 100 km from here.