IIT Kharagpur to Set Up New Off-Shore Campus in Malaysia

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New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur Saturday celebrated its 68th convocation ceremony where the management announced that IIT Malaysia campus will be established in the near future.

IIT Kharagpur Director V K Tewary on Saturday said that as part of the plan of the premier institute to set up top quality higher educational institutions outside India, an IIT is expected to come up in Malaysia in near future.

IIT Kharagpur “aims to become the world-wide benchmark in education excellence by establishing IIT Malaysia, which will be a major step for the institute to set its global footprint in the international domain of Higher Education promoting Indian standards of education,” said VK Tewari, director of IIT Kharagpur.

“From the rejuvenation of the industrial sector and augmenting it through Atma Nirbhar Bharat policy to the education sector to establish the BRAND INDIA. We need active engagement of government in telling this story of India and we are fortunate to have them beside us to the creative and innovative influx of ‘Dynamic Education’ as education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in a man,” he said.

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The institute has compiled a compendium of its 75 innovations, Tewary said as the audience broke into applause.

Listing the project innovation success stories of IIT Kharagpur in the past two years, he said while the Covirap diagnostic kit for coronavirus was sold at Rs 6.7 crore, many other successful new devices were sold at prices of more than Rs one crore. "We are supporting 25 identified innovations," he said, adding the institute has set up the 260-bed Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences,” Tewary said.

"From Vinod Gupta to Sunder Pichai, many ex-IIT KGPians, numbering thousands, brought laurels to the institute," he added. Chief Guest of the Convocation, Peter Chan, Chief Executive Officer of Herons Bonsai Ltd, an IIT alumnus having passed in 1962, said that he feels proud to be moulded by IIT Kharagpur, an 'institute of eminence'.

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