IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) to increase its ties with the other engineering colleges

IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) to increase its ties with the other engineering colleges

In an attempt to help the other colleges of the state perform better, IIT-Gn has decided to increase its association with the other colleges of the state. The decision was taken after the institute got the nod for the same during a meeting. So far, the college had associations with only Vishwakarma Government Engineering College in Ahmedabad. “Yesterday (Friday), the board decided to increase association with other engineering colleges. If there is a good institute then there should be talks between the institutes. Education institutes grow when they talk to each other. As of now, we have decided to call principals of all engineering colleges and conduct workshops for them,” said IIT-Gn Director Prof Sudhir Jain. The state has total 16 government, three grant-in-aid and 121 self-financed engineering colleges. Private engineering colleges of the state are having 55 percent of the seats empty. Denying any instructions being given by the state government in this regard, the director said, “We have a small corpus of Rs 50 lakh but we want to spend more (in this regard) and have been assured by the government that we can have more funds if we want.” The institute is also planning on increasing its students by 200 from next year onward. Jain also said that the intake of the students from the foreign countries is less but we are doing more efforts to increase the number. “Talks on this have been going on in the country and deliberations are on that if India needs to become a world leader then people from outside should come and study here. Even in Takshila and Nalanda people would come from outside and study. There are students from four countries (Nepal, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and Turkey) who have come to IIT-Gn to study. We are gradually working on this and increasing this intake,” he said.

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