Dharwad: The decades-old demand of having an Indian Institute of Technolog y (IIT) in Dharwad will come true on July 31 as the inauguration of the same will be held by Union minister for Human Resources Development Prakash Javadekar, in presence of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
Karnataka Minister for Higher Education Basavaraj Rayaraddi, who visited the IIT transit campus at the Water and Land Management Institute here on Saturday, said the state cabinet had decided to hand over 470 acres for the construction of the main campus to the IIT Society next week. The KIADB will hand over 470 acres near Mummigatti to the department of higher education which, in turn, will pass it on to the IIT Society.
Rayaraddi said professors from IIT-Mumbai will be deployed to teach at IIT-Dharwad for the first and second semester of BTech courses in computer science, mechanical and electronic streams.
Seats have already been allotted to students and academic activities will begin from August 1.
