Team Herald
PANJIM: With the first batch of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) set to commence from July-August 2016, its temporary campus – Goa Engineering College (GEC), Farmagudi has already provided the required infrastructure to conduct theory as well as practical classes.
The college, which has been an ‘incubator’ for National Institute of Technology and now IIT, will also share a portion of the newly renovated students’ hostel with IIT.
“We have already provided classrooms to fulfil their requirement of 90 seats in each of the three streams – electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineering, and laboratories. A part of the renovated hostel will be shared by Goa Engineering College and IIT students,” Goa Engineering College Principal Vinayak Shet said. The Goa Engineering College campus has been a temporary campus for NIT as well.
Out of the total students selected for one of the most prestigious IIT course, the faculty expects 10 percent enrolment from girl students. The Ministry of Human Resources Development recently approved IIT classes in Goa, after finalising a permanent campus at approx 280 acres of land at Loliem in Canacona.
IIT Bombay, that has mentored IIT Gwalior, IIT Gandhinagar and IIT in Karnataka, will also mentor IIT Goa at its initial stage.
