IIT Palakkad,Kerala,India Starts Functioning Monday August 03,2015

Kerala on Monday August 03,2015 attained a prime position in the higher education map of the country when the 18th Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) started functioning from its temporary campus close to Ahalya Group of Educational Institutions here

Union Minister for Human Resources Smrithi Irani addressed the 117 students of the first batch and their parents through video conferencing from New Delhi.

In her address, Ms Irani exhorted the student community not to confine themselves to the four walls of the campus, but to engage in activities and services beneficial to the community. She told the students to develop a social outlook besides pursuing their higher education dreams. In her brief address, the Minister reminded the student community about the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan floated by her ministry to uplift rural India. The programme was launched last year in collaboration with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and the National Institutes of Technology.

The Minister urged the students to participate in the programme, which involved engaging with communities around each institute and taking up activities aimed at their uplift. 

Kerala's first  IIT  in Palakkad starts functioning with 117 students; 10 Faculty and with 4 B.Tech Streams
IIT-Palakkad offers four B-Tech streams - Computer Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering - in the initial phase.

As many as 117 students, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, have been admitted to the new campus.

Classes began in a temporary campus near Valayar here and it would be shifted to a 500-acre permanent campus in Puthussery in the district in three years, after completion of land acquisition process and construction of buildings