Question : IIT CENTRES IN RURAL AREAS

(a) the number of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) centres functioning in various States including Bihar as on date;

(b) whether the students of the rural areas have to go to other cities/metropolitan cities due to lack of IIT centres in their areas which is very costly; and

(c) if so, the time by which the said facility is likely to be provided in all the States in the country?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. D. PURANDESWARI)

(a) : There are 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) presently functioning in various States, including one at Bihta (Patna) in Bihar.

State-wise locations of IITs in the country are as under:-

Sl.	State	Institutes
No 
1.	National Capital	IIT-Delhi	Territory of Delhi

2.	West Bengal	IIT-Kharagpur

3.	Tamil Nadu	IIT-Madras

4.	Maharashtra	IIT-Bombay

5.	Uttar Pradesh	IIT-Kanpur
6.	Assam	IIT-Guwahati

7	Uttarakhand	IIT-Roorkee

8.	Gujarat	IIT-Gandhinagar

9.	Punjab	IIT-Ropar
10.	Rajasthan	IIT-Jodhpur
11.	Orissa	IIT-Bhubaneswar
12.	Andhra Pradesh	IIT-Hyderabad
13.	Bihar	IT-Patna
14.	Madhya Pradesh	IIT-Indore
15.	Himachal Pradesh	IIT-Mandi

(b): Admission in IITs are made on All-India basis, in order of merit and preference of Institute and course indicated by the candidates in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), subject to reservation provided under the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admissions) Act, 2006.

(c): At present, there is no proposal for establishing any new IIT.

Question : IIT CENTRES IN RURAL AREAS

Answer given by the minister

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