Haryana grants IIT-Delhi 50 acres for extension of research campus

The site will be developed as an extension of the IIT-Delhi campus and will include a science and technology park,a faculty development centre and a “high performance” computing centre.

Although the campus is an infrastructural expansion of the Delhi-based institute,its development is expected to be funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and IIT. “It is also likely that the Haryana government will fund this project,” institute officials said.

IIT-Delhi has also been pushing for another extension campus in the Jhajjar area where they had asked for about 100 acres of land. This second extension is being envisaged as IIT’s research campus while the Sonepat campus will be developed used for academic expansion.

A six-member team of faculty members and officials from IIT-Delhi had visited some plots in and around Jhajjar,near Gurgaon,in April last year to identify a site for the proposed expansion plans of the institute.