GOVT SANCTIONS ADDL R10 CRORE FOR IIITLUCKNOW
ALLAHABAD: The state government has sanctioned an additional amount of Rs 10 crore for the completion of construction work at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Lucknow. The sanction is in response to a request made by director (technical education) Kafil Ahmad through a letter dated November 6. The total amount made available for IIIT-Lucknow is Rs 52.86 cr.
ALLAHABAD: The state government has sanctioned an additional amount of Rs 10 crore for the completion of construction work at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Lucknow.
The sanction is in response to a request made by director (technical education) Kafil Ahmad through a letter dated November 6.
With additional funds, the total amount made available for IIITLucknow is Rs 52.86 crore.
“Special secretary, technical education, Surjan Singh has conveyed the decision of sanction of funds to the director (technical education) through a missive dated December 13. A copy of the letter has also been sent to director, IIIT-Allahabad, Prof P Nagabhushan,” said IIIT-Lucknow spokesman Pankaj Mishra.
According to the letter, Rs 42.86 crore has earlier been released for IIIT-Lucknow which includes Rs 15 crore as central government’s share and Rs 18.26 crore as the state’s share.
Another Rs 9.60 crore as share of industry partner UP Electronics Corporation Ltd has also been released.
The central government is setting up 20 IIITs, including the one at Lucknow, under the publicprivate partnership (PPP) model.
The permanent campus of IIITLucknow is coming up on 50 acres of land at Chak Ganjariya. The institute is temporarily operating from the Jhalwa campus of IIITAllahabad.
According to sources, the state government is keen on getting the construction work of IIIT-Lucknow completed at the earliest and enable it to function from its own campus.
IIIT-Lucknow admitted the first batch of students for BTech in information technology course with an intake of 50 candidates in the academic session 2015-16. The second batch of 50 students was admitted in 2016-17.
“Admissions were made through central counselling of candidates who cleared the Joint Entrance Examination (mains). All the 100 candidates are pursuing their course at IIIT Jhalwa campus,” Mishra added.
IIIT-Lucknow is in the process of recruiting teachers on contractual basis as guest faculty.
The last date for online submission of applications for interested eligible candidates is December 27 and the tentative date of interview of shortlisted candidates is January 2-3.