IITs advised to avoid setting up satellite campuses

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New Delhi, Aug 20 (UNI) The Government has taken a decision to avoid setting up large satellite campuses for the regular Bachelors and Masters programme of the Indian Institutes of Technology, Minister of State for Human Resources D Purandeswari today told the Rajya Sabha.

Answering Mr Keshubhai Patel and Mr Kanjibhai Patel, the minister in a written reply, said that the government had no objection to setting up small extension centres of the existing IITs outside their main campuses, to be devoted to continuing education, diploma courses, finishing schools and incubation programmes.

To a question by Mrs Mohsina Kidwai and Mr Vijay Darda, the minister admitted that the NASSCOM report had revealed that most of the engineering graduates in the country were ''unemployable'' because of lack of skill sets required by the growing ESO and BPO assignements now being outsourced into the country. The IIT Rourkee and six national Institutes of Technology at Surathkal, Durgapur, Warangal, Jaipur, Calicut and Trichy were conducting finishing schools on a pilot basis during the summer months of May-July for the engineering gradutates.

The All India Council for Technical Education was taking steps to ensure that enrolment to engineering streams touch a figure of one million by 2010-11 from the current level of 0.50 million to alleviate the gap between demand and supply of IT manpower and to enhance the employability of engineering graduates. The Ministry of HRD had taken an initiative to establish 20 new Institutes of Information Technology during the 11th plan, she added.

UNI

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