Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday virtually inaugurated a new building of the Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai and two Kendriya Vidyalaya buildings in Chhattisgarh.
At present, the IIT Bhilai has a strength of 1,250 students and in the next three-four years its capacity will be increased to accommodate nearly 2,500 students, an official said.
The official spoke after the Prime Minister opened the institute and the two schools via video conferencing from Jammu and Kashmir.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, Durg MP Vijay Baghel, IIT Bhilai Chairman of Board of Governors K Venkatraman and its director Prof Rajiv Prakash were present at the event at the IIT campus in Bhilai.
Modi had laid the foundation stone of the IIT Bhilai campus on June 14, 2018. Its construction started in July 2020, an official said.
The IIT Bhilai campus is spread over 400 acres and initially more than Rs 1,090 crore were sanctioned by the Union Education Ministry for its construction. The institute has 75 faculty members and 110 other staffers, the official said. The Prime Minister also virtually inaugurated the newly constructed buildings of Kendriya Vidyalaya in Kawardha (Kabirdham district) and Kurud (Dhamtari district) of the state.
