Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday, October 24, laid the foundation stone for the main campus of IIT Palakkad, Kerala.
The event was organized online and the ministers also inaugurated the transit campus named ‘Nila campus’.
The felicitation address was delivered by the Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan; Kerala Higher Education Minister K.T Jalel amongst other dignitaries.
While addressing the event, the Union Education Minister said that IIT Palakkad has seen great progress since inauguration in 2015 and has grown immensely in the past half a decade. The institute is now like home to 640 undergraduate 225 postgraduate and 132 Doctoral students.
Mr Pokhriyal added that the Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) has been allocated Rs 2,200 crore in the 2020 budget to administer and conduct research and supervise betterment of education infrastructure in higher education institutes. This same goal is referred to in the recently introduced New Education Policy (NEP 2020).
IIT Palakkad, Kerala presently offers BTech programmes in four disciplines of Engineering Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Science.
Additionally, the institute has also started the Master's programmes covering all areas of MS by Research, MTech, and MSc.
The MS programmes were added in 2017 and the MTech and MSc programmes were introduced in 2019.
IIT Palakkad offers MTech programmes in Geotechnical Engineering, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, Data Science, Power Electronics and Power Systems and System-on-Chip Design.
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The MS programmes are available in all the four branches of Engineering while the MSc programmes are offered in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
The Doctoral Programmes were started back in 2017. They are available in all the eight disciplines of the institute.