Kanpur: About 240 students of IIT-Rajasthan,
who are currently undertaking classes at IIT-Kanpur, will from
next year get their new place of study -- Mungilal Bangad
Engineering college in Jodhpur.
A temporary arrangement for residential purpose is also
being made for the students and the faculty at a Central
government hospital colony in Jodhpur.
Talking to PTI-Bhasha, Sanjeev Kashalkar, the IIT-Kanpur
Registrar who is also looking after IIT-Rajasthan for the past
two years, said that Mungilal Bangad Engineering college is a
60-year-old prestigious institute.
The new batch of students for the next academic session
of IIT-Rajasthan will also join at MBE college, he said.
Land for the campus of IIT-Rajasthan has already been
identified on Jodhpur-Nagaur road, but completion of the
building is expected to take a long time.
IIT-Rajasthan students are from 2008 studying at
IIT-Kanpur.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, December 09, 2009, 17:54