Lok Sabha passes bill providing for opening of 6 new IITs: A bill accommodating opening six new IITs, including at Jammu and Tirupati, was today passed by the Lok Sabha. Under the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill 2016, new IITs will likewise be begun in Palakkad, Goa, Dharward and Bhilai.
The Bill additionally looks to bring the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, inside the ambit of the Act. Answering to a level headed discussion on the bill, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said the legislature has shaped High Education Financial Agency (HEFA) to update the framework.
The administration's philosophy is 'Sabko Shiksha Acchi Shiksa (Good Education to All) and has taken various endeavors in this respects, he said.
On the charge structure, he said understudies from the ST and SC people group, from the Below Poverty Line (BPL) classification and physically tested have full waiver of expenses in the IITs and NITs. He said, those whose family pay is underneath Rs 9 lakh for every annum likewise get zero for each penny instruction credit.
"Instruction must be comprehensive. Be that as it may, those fit for paying must pay. You ought not contradict when rich are being requested that compensation," the priest said. Javadekar said keeping in mind the end goal to address the issue of high expense of IIT instructing class placement test, the legislature has begun online project IIT-PAL Lok Sabha passes bill providing for opening of 6 new IITs.
Under this program the understudies can take free instructional exercises, exams, homework. In future, he said, the legislature is additionally wanting to take it at the TV level for a more extensive access. To an inquiry regarding the part of industry in the IITs, Javadekar said the legislature is even prepared to decrease its control yet the business needs to acknowledge a bigger obligation.
He said the administration has been attempting to give wi-fi availability of 1 GBPS system to all colleges in the nation which will gradually be reached out to the universities subsidiary to it also in next two years. In Central colleges, this office will be reached out to classrooms, containers, inns, the clergyman said.
Javadekar likewise tried to scatter the idea that the subsidizing in IITs have gone down, saying this year, the administration has allotted Rs 4035 crore to the IITs as against Rs 3855 crore the most recent year.