(a) the total number of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) sanctioned to be set up in Madhya Pradesh;
(b) whether the State Government has provided adequate land for such IITs;
(c) if so, the details thereof and its present status; and
(d) the time by which such IITs are likely to be functional?
MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SMT. D. PURANDESWARI)
(a): One Indian Institute of Technology has been set up in Indore (MP).
(b) & (c): The State Government has identified 502 acres of land at Simrol, Indore, which has been approved
by the Site Identification Committee (SIC) constituted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
(d): IIT-Indore started functioning from the temporary campus of Institute of Engineering & Technology,
Devi Ahilaya Vishwavidhyalaya, Khandva Road, Indore, from the academic year 2009-10.