The Memorandum of Understanding and Memorandum of Agreement were signed by IT Secretary Sunil Kumar Burnwal on behalf of Jharkhand Government with Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and three industry partners namely TATA Consultancy Services, TATA Motors ltd and Central Coalfield ltd.
During the meeting for signing the MoU and MoA, Union HRD Secretary VS Oberoi, Jharkhand Chief Secretary Rajeev Gauba and Union HRD Additional Secretary R Subramaniam were present.
Discussions were held on how to make IIIT Ranchi functional as soon as possible before the next academic session. It was decided to hold the first board meeting of IIIT in the first week of January under the chairmanship of Union HRD Secretary.