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Cabinet approves expansion of 5 IITs

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The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, on May 7, 2025 approved expansion of academic and infrastructure capacity (Phase-`B’ construction) of five new IlTs which had been established in the States/UT of Andhra Pradesh (IIT Tirupati), Kerala (IIT Palakkad), Chhattisgarh (IIT Bhilai), Jammu & Kashmir (IIT Jammu) and Karnataka (HT Dharwad).

• The total cost for the same is Rs 11,828.79 crore over a period of four years from 2025-26 to 2028-29.
• The Cabinet has also approved creation of 130 faculty posts (at the level of Professor i.e. Level 14 & above) in these IlTs.
• Five new state-of-art research parks are also coming up to strengthen industry-academia linkage.
Student strength in these IITs will be increased by more than 6500 in the next four years. ‘Total number of students in 23 IlTs has increased 100 per cent from 65,000 to 1.35 lakh in the past 10 years.