While the government has proposed to set up eight new IITs in the 11th Plan, admissions to six new IITs, albeit subject to the approval of the “competent authority of the Government of India”, are likely to take place during the counselling session of JEE 2008.
“We propose to have 120 seats and each new IIT will admit students in the BTech programmes in three branches [of engineering] only,” an IIT Bombay official said.
All the new IITs will also implement the 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes from this academic session itself as against the existing IITs, which are implementing the quota in a staggered manner over three years.
The proposed IITs and their mentor institutions are IIT Gujarat/Gandhinagar (IIT Bombay), Punjab (IIT Delhi), Patna (IIT Guwahati), Rajasthan (IIT Kanpur), Bhubaneswar (IIT Kharagpur), and Hyderabad (IIT Madras). While all will offer electrical and mechanical engineering, IIT Gandhinagar will offer chemical engineering, IIT Bhubaneswar will offer civil engineering, and the rest will offer computer science and engineering.
“The curriculum, syllabus, fee structure and other rules for the new IITs will broadly remain the same as in the respective mentor IITs,” the IIT-B official said.
The first-year classes for IIT Punjab, Rajasthan, and Bhubaneswar will be conducted at the campuses of the mentor IITs. The students will be shifted to the respective locations in the second year. Classes for the other new IITs will be conducted in the cities where the IITs are being located.
“For instance, till the campus of IIT Gujarat is established, classes will be held at the Vishwakarma Government Engineering College,” the official said. “Residential and other facilities will be given to students at temporary locations.”
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