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Come July, Indore’s IIT gets permanent address in Simrol
Come July, the IIT-Indore will get a permanent campus in Simrol, saving the students and faculty the trouble of shuttling between three makeshift campuses operating out of IET- Khandwa building, PACL Mhow campus and Simrol since its inception in 2009.
Come July, the IIT-Indore will get a permanent campus in Simrol, saving the students and faculty the trouble of shuttling between three makeshift campuses operating out of IET- Khandwa building, PACL Mhow campus and Simrol since its inception in 2009.
IIT Indore started functioning along with IITs at Hyderabad, Gandhinagar, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur and Ropar. While IITs Jodhpur and Ropar are yet to move into their new campuses, the rest of the institutes have shifted to their permanent campuses.
Students complained of a poor campus life as there was little interaction among students from different branches. With a single campus, students now hope to get a better campus life. Fully functional cafeterias on campus, libraries and other facilities will ensure that the student’s day on campus is well taken care of.
The new campus was to be completed in 2012 but missed the deadline due to various reasons. In 2010, the ministry of environment and forests denied permission for diversion of 80 hectares of forestland which was a part of 500 acres of land allotted for the institute. The ministry gave its nod some time later.
Though educational activities have shifted to the new campus, student hostels will also move to the new campus soon. At present, residential quarter for students and faculties are functioning from Silver Spring township.
“We have shifted the entire campus in Simrol. Only hostels are operating from Silver Springs,” said Nirmala Menon, a faculty with IIT-Indore.
“It is very difficult to say when this (hostel) shift will happen as it all depends on construction workers. But we will wrap it up within a couple of months.”
Earlier, IIT-Indore announced that it would increase batch sizes of three of its existing undergraduate programmes to 60. It also plans to roll out BTech in civil engineering and material and metallurgical engineering with 40 students in each stream from the coming academic year 2016-17.
The institute offers electrical engineering, computer science engineering and mechanical engineering to batches of 40 students each.
Travails of students
The new campus was to be completed in 2012 but missed the deadline due to various reasons
In 2010, the ministry of environment and forests denied permission for diversion of 80 hectares of forestland which was a part of 500 acres of land allotted for the institute. The ministry gave its nod some time later
Though educational activities have shifted to the new campus, student hostels will also move to the new campus soon. At present, residential quarter for students and faculties are functioning from Silver Spring township
Students complained of a poor campus life as there was little interaction among students from different branches. With a single campus, students now hope to get a better campus life.
