IIT Madras Plans a second campus

IIT Madras Plans a second campus

Chennai: Its growth profile coupled with restrictions on expanding within reserve forest area is marking Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) consider establishing second campus.

“We hope to find land elsewhere to put up a second campus,” IIT-M director M.S.Ananth told a national seminar here on Thursday.

Later, taking to The Hindu he said IIT-M at one point considered setting up the proposed second campus in another State. But, with the Centre shooting down the proposal, it would soon approach the Tamil Nadu Government for land.

He also told the seminar on ‘After globalization: resurgence of history, ideology, nation and religion,’ that in terms of new faculty, IIT-M had made 210 job offers over the last five years across various departments.

The Institute’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is organizing the two-day seminar.

According to Tata Consultancy Services vice-president K.Ananth Krishnan, who was the chief guest at the inaugural session, technology was key driver of globalization.

It made travel and communication easier.

IIT Madras Plans a second campus

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