Under the India-UAE trade agreement, the central government had announced to set up a campus in the UAE. Under this, the campus of IIT-Delhi is being established in Abu Dhabi.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-Delhi) is counted among the best institutes in the country. Soon, apart from the campus of this IIT in Delhi, the capital of India, IIT-Delhi campus will start in another country of the world. In this way Indian educational institutes will take one more step towards becoming global. In fact, the IIT-Delhi campus is being built in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This campus will start from September 2024 and the first batch of studies will be conducted here.
IIT-Delhi will become the first institute among other IITs in the country to have started its campus abroad. However, apart from IIT-Delhi, IIT-Madras and IIT-Kharagpur are also going to set up their campus abroad. While IIT-Madras will start its operations in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Tanzania, IIT-Kharagpur’s campus will be set up in Malaysia.
Campus will start under India-UAE Trade Deal
According to an education ministry official, IIT-Delhi is coming up with a new curriculum from the academic session 2023 and it will be introduced in the UAE campus as well. In fact, on February 18 this year, under the India-UAE trade agreement, the central government had announced the setting up of a campus in the UAE. Since then both the countries are in touch with each other to set up this campus.
IIT will get benefit from royalty
Earlier, a central government panel had recommended that if IITs set up campuses abroad, they would benefit from their own brand names as they would earn royalties. The best governance system will be adopted for these institutions. The 17-member panel, headed by K Radhakrishnan, chairman of the standing committee of the IIT council, said, “Foreign campuses should operate in such a way that when working with IITs, no approval is required from the IITs or the Government of India.” Wanted.’
The panel said, “The person setting up the IIT (in India) must also have something to gain from the campus abroad. For example, there may be royalties for using the IIT brand. There should be safeguards to save the IIT brand for a long time. Every effort should be made to ensure that the IIT brand is not affected.
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