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The IITs opposed to the opening of this new year

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New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The seven existing Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) - prestigious in the world, the institutions of excellence - had protested against the opening of three more IITs this year, but the government was preceded by itself. “We said that the (Human Resources Development), the ministry is not at the starting line for new IITs this year, but it had a different view, IIT Delhi, the director said Surendra Prasad IANS.

Prasad refused to write what she had written to the ministry, or what exactly the ministry’s response. Consent sources have, however, indicated that the seven IITs cited lack of infrastructure and the quality of teachers as a big road block for the creation of new institutes.

The three new IITs in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar are starting to come, the operation of the academic session.

“As the government has to take a decision, we will help the new institutions in every genre possible - Education, Faculty etc,” said Prasad.

All three new IITs each have 120 seats of the year. At the beginning, they have courses in three streams - science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.

“Three of the IITs will be the next guardianship. IIT Delhi While the boss Ràjasthàn IIT, Kanpur IIT is the patron of ITI Bihar. IIT Madras IIT help Andhra Pradesh,” said SC Saxena, director of the IIT Roorkee, has been for a meeting with the Ministry of HRD.

Saxena, said students of this new IITs may also its patron saint institutes classes.

The new establishments, the total reserve 27% for other classes from the rear (OBCs). The seven IITs implement rate of nine percent in the coming academic session.

Gautam Barua, director of the IIT Guwahati, but said he would not be a deterioration in the quality of training because of the lack of infrastructure or in the new CBO rate IITs.

“A beginning of something done. Let us take as a challenge. IIT Guwahati began with three teachers, but we are currently over 200 members of the Faculty, “Barua said.

Each year, more than 4000 students took entrance in the various sub-university programs on the seven IITs Mumbai, Guwahati, Roorkee, Madras (Chennai), Kanpur, Kharagpur and Delhi.

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