GOVERNMENT OF MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No.125 TO BE ANSWERRED ON 17.07.2017

Establishment of IIITs

125. SHRI PRATHAP SIMHA: KUMARI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is considering to establish some new Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) in many parts of the country;

(b) if so, whether the Government is considering to establish an IIIT in Raichur, also; and

(c) if so, the time by which it is likely to be established?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

(Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey)

(a) to (c): The Central Government has established 5 Centrally funded IIITs at Uttar Pradesh(Allahabad), Madhya Pradesh(Gwalior and Jabalpur), Tamil Nadu(Kancheepuram), Andhra Pradesh(Kurnool) and has approved 20 IIITs in PPP mode out of which 18 IIITs have started functioning. The list is placed at Annexure-A. No new IIIT is being contemplated at this stage. ****

ANNEXURE- A

ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (c) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 125 REGARDING ESTABLISHMENT OF IIITs ASKED BY SHRI PRATHAP SIMHA AND KUMARI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE.

S.No Name of IIIT-PPP Commencement of Academic Session 1 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota, 2013-14 Rajasthan 2 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, Assam 3 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh 4 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara, Gujarat 5 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu 6 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una, 2014-15 Himachal Pradesh 7 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sonepat, Haryana 8 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani, West Bengal 9 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Senapati, 2015-16 Manipur 10 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 11 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad, Karnataka 12 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam, 13 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Pune, 2016-17 Maharashtra 14 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Ranchi, Jharkhand 15 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra 16 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhopal, 2017-18 Madhya Pradesh 17 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhagalpur, Bihar 18 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Surat, Gujarat 19 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kakinada, Not yet started Andhra Pradesh 20 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Agartala, Tripura