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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Rajya Sabha Approves the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2016 Tuesday August 02,2016

The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday approved the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which was passed by the Lok Sabha earlier

As a result, new IITs will soon come up in -
  • Jammu
  • Tirupati
  • Palakkad (Kerala)
  • Goa, Dharwad (Karnataka) and
  •  Bhilai (Chhattisgarh). 

Replying to a debate on the bill, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said IITs are centres of excellence and would continue to remain so. “We will not allow anything that will lower their standards. Actually we all should try to improve them further and make them really world class institutes. Therefore quality is absolutely important.”

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