The temple town is all set to be a ‘knowledge hub’, with three premier national institutes coming up here soon.
Union Minister for Human Resources Development Smriti Irani will lay the foundation stone for three institutes of repute such as Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) and Indian Institute of Information Technology (Chittoor) on Mar 28. Union Ministers M. Venkaiah Naidu, Y.S. Chowdary and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu are also expected to grace the occasion.
While the IIT and IISER will come up within a few kilometres to each other, in Yerpedu mandal of Srikalahasti constituency, while IIIT campus has been planned in Satyavedu constituency near the Sri City industrial hub, abutting the Vijayawada-Chennai national highway.
The Union Minister, in all probability, will lay the foundation stones at the proposed sites respectively.
“We are contemplating an interaction programme, wherein the Chief Minister will share his vision with college students on how the establishment of these institutes will transform Tirupati into a knowledge hub,” Chittoor Collector Siddharth Jain told The Hindu .
The foundation stone laying for the IIIT,Chittoor is all set to be included in the itinerary of the Union Minister, with the district administration successfully clinching the nagging issue of land acquisition by offering higher compensation to the land owners.
In total, 77 acres have been acquired for the campus at Mallavaripalem revenue village in Satyavedu mandal. “The institute, at present, is functioning from a temporary campus. We hope to move into the new campus within the next two years,” says IIIT,Chittoor, head (academic affairs) P. Ramachandra Reddy.
Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani will lay foundation stone for IIT, IISER and IIIT on March 28
