First session of IIT Mandi from this year - Anand Sharma
Mandi (Himachal Pradesh): The first session of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), which will be set up in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, will start this year, Minister of State for External Affairs and Information and Broadcasting Anand Sharma said on Tuesday. "From this session, the IIT would start holding classes. It's a historic moment for all of us," Sharma said while laying the foundation stone of the IIT at Kamand village, 11 km from Mandi, on the banks of a tributary of the Beas river. "The central government last year decided to increase the number of IITs in the country to 15 from the existing seven. Six (IITs) started functioning last year and this (IIT-Mandi) and IIT-Indore would start admission process from this year," he said. "The central government had allocated Rs.Rs.1,000 crore (Rs.10 billion) for this (Mandi) IIT," he said, thanking the state government for providing 530 acres for establishing the institute. Himachal Pr...