There is good news for those who had written off the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) from the educational landscape of Ranchi- the central government has accepted the State government’s proposal for setting up the institution where the session is expected to commence from 2014. The institution will work on Non-Profit Public Private Partnership (nPPP) mode.
The institution will be registered under Society Registration Act and an MoU will be signed between the concerned parties. A Board of Governors will be constituted for IIIT which will act as the Executive Body for the institution.
Academic activities will continue in Administrative Block of Khelgaon till the infrastructure is put up in place. Faculty recruitment will be governed by Faculty Recruitment Policy of AICTE and UGC. Few faculties will be outsourced from elsewhere initially.
As per the proposal the institution will be set up at a cost of Rs 128 crore out of which 50 per cent (Rs 64 crore) to borne by the Central government, 35 percent (Rs 44.80 crore) by State government while the remaining 15 per cent (Rs19.20 crore) will be funded by industry partners. Notably, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Tata Motors have been chosen as the industry partner in the project. The proposal got green signal by Union Human Resource Development Ministry on October 11.
Interestingly, the State government has earmarked around 34.29 acres of land for the project in Sanga under Kanke block. Besides, the government has also earmarked 10.46 acres of raiyat land adjoining the land for institution. The state government has sanctioned compensation for raiyat lands proposed for acquisition which will shortly be handed over to the Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi, said a government press release.
The institution will impart B Tech in Electronics & Communications and Information Technology degrees at the Under Graduate level which will be of four years of duration. Studies for Post Graduate (PG) will commence from third year onwards in which Master of Technology in Intelligence System, Master in Bioinformatics and MBA in IT will be taught besides starting Doctoral Programme from the third year. Human Computer Interaction, Bioinformatics, Wireless Communication, Microelectronics, Robotics, Software Engineering, Data Mining, Cloud Computing, GIS, Information Security etc.
While 60 students will be enrolled for the first year in UG courses, around 30 students will be enrolled for the PG courses besides three students for PhD. Admission to UG courses will be done through AIEEE.