Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said that an extension campus of IIT Delhi will be set up on 50 acres of land in Badsa village of Jhajjar district.

Khattar, presiding over a meeting regarding the establishment of the campus with the officials of IIT Delhi at Haryana Bhawan in Delhi, approved the proposal of setting up an extension campus of IIT Delhi at Badsa village.

The Principal Secretary to Chief Minister V Umashankar, Principal Secretary of Technical Education and Higher Education Vijayendra Kumar, Technical Education director Rajiv Rattan, IIT Delhi director Prof Rangan Banerjee, and other faculty members of IIT Delhi also attended the meeting.

The Chief Minister assured the team of IIT Delhi that the Haryana Government would extend complete cooperation to set up the campus. “With this initiative, new healthcare technologies will be developed by incorporating the data of patients received from the National Cancer Institute located at Badsa,” he said.

Apart from MSc, PhD, different types of certificate courses will also be started on this campus; and these special courses and training programmes will impart and enhance skills of the youth, creating various employment opportunities for them, he added.

Khattar said that this campus will become India's first centre for precision medicine. Precision medicine is a research which is required to develop medicine according to a particular patient.

“This initiative will also benefit our pharma companies as the companies will be able to develop new medicines for cancer patients on the basis of research by medical experts of National Cancer Institute and technical experts from IIT Delhi,” he said.

The Chief Minister added that technology to perform better in sports and prevention of injury would also be developed in this campus to help the players to perform in a better way.

He suggested that the technology and research should be developed for the sportspersons in coordination with the Sports University, Rai (Sonipat), so that they can get maximum benefit out of it.

During the meeting, it was informed that the campus will develop techniques for the treatment of cancer patients by using medical imaging and artificial intelligence, so that the place of origin of cancer tissue can be detected and there will be no need of removing the entire organ affected by cancer form the body. Apart from this, research work on dental implants, hip protection devices in the elderly, prosthetic knee joints, etc will continue in the campus to explore new technology required from time to time with the help of technical experts of IIT Delhi.

IIT Delhi director Prof Rangan Banerjee was apprised that it will take about three years for the construction of the campus. Besides this, it may take three to five years to completely expand academic programmes and development of research and design facilities focusing on the patients of the National Cancer Institute.