IIT Rajasthan - Kota, Jaipur

IIT Rajasthan - Kota, Jaipur

IIT Rajasthan is one among the new set of IITs announced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. The location of the IIT in Rajasthan will be announced by the Govt. of India.

A few days ago, the French government expressed interest in collaborating with the government of India in setting up IIT-Rajasthan.  The Union HRD ministry and its French counterpart are likely to sign a memorandum of understanding soon on IIT-R. The French are expected to provide monetary support and also provide experts in the initial stages.

Why Jaipur is better than Kota ?

The main hurdle to setting up the institute had been the fight over the location. The Vasundhara Raje government had been keen on setting up the IIT at Kota, a coaching hub for future IITians. and had even acquired land there.

Kota, which is teeming with elite coaching schools, sends a record number of successful students to various IITs in the country.
Some estimates say that a third of the 5,000 students who manage to clear the entrance tests for the premier institute are groomed in Kota, which the state government describes as a modern-day Nalanda, the famed Buddhist centre of learning that existed during the Buddha’s times.

But Kota was not the choice of experts who had suggested Jaipur from the very beginning, largely because of its superior connectivity compared to other cities in the state.

However, in the meantime, IIT Kanpur has been designated as the mentor IIT for looking after the incubation activities of the new IIT in Rajasthan. The academic session in IIT Rajasthan have been started from August 2008.

All the new IITs, however, are coming up near or in the state capitals: IIT-Bihar in Patna, the Andhra one in Hyderabad, the Punjab insititute at Chandigarh, the Orissa IIT at Bhubaneswar, and the Gujarat one at Gandhinagar. So, it will be rather odd if it is an aberration in the case of Rajasthan.

Moreover, those coming to teach at IIT-R will need to factor in things like good schools for their children, and in that respect Jaipur has an edge over other cities.

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