Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi is expanding its campus and will add five new buildings including girls hostel, boys hostel, academic block, staff and faculty housing buildings. The board of governors at IIT Delhi has given approval for construction of 5 new infrastructure projects worth Rs 680 crore. In addition, an IIT is being set up in Abu Dhabi, said Rangan Banerjee, director, IIT Delhi. “We are working on setting up of an IIT at Abu Dhabi as per the ministry’s decision,” he told. The IIT is likely to come up over the next two years.
“Too early to comment on details for IIT Abu Dhabi as the planning process is still underway,” he said. This year, three centrally air-conditioned student hostels named Dronagiri, Saptagiri and Sahyadri have been constructed and students have been on-boarded. The total number of rooms taken together is 1208 out of which, Sahyadri is a girl’s hostel with a capacity of 320 rooms, he said.
Further, the IIT is chalking out a new curriculum for coming academic years, he said. IIT Delhi will very soon undertake a drive to install electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure throughout the campus to promote usage of EVs.
In the financial year 2021-22, 286 sponsored projects with total funding of Rs 351.90 crore were undertaken through the Institute’s Industrial Research and Development (IRD) Unit and Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), which is an industry interface organisation at IIT Delhi.
346 consultancy jobs with total funding of Rs 34.33 crore were undertaken through the IRD Unit and FITT in the financial year 2021-22, the IIT shared. During the period 2021-22, 111 IPs were filed.
