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Ajay Parmar, TNN Jun 19, 2011, 06.40 am IST
JODHPUR: The new campus of the IIT-R, to be constructed about 25 km from Jodhpur at Karwad village on Jodhpur-Nagaur Highway, will be an environmental masterpiece, one of the most eco-friendly green institutions the nation has today. According to experts, this campus is likely to have a temperature at least 10 degrees lower than outside because of the design.
The possession of the land was given to the IIT-R by the divisional commissioner a couple of months ago and the IIT administration is drawing up a master plan for the campus, which will be spread over 872 acres, of which 196 acres has been earmarked for various centres of excellence. P K Kalra, institute director, said by the time, the Environmental Impact Assessment for environmental clearance is complete, which is expected to take 1 year at the most, we will have our master plan ready for the campus followed by the ecological and hydrological surveys of the location. "Based upon the completion of these formalities, we hope to begin construction sometime between July and December 2012 and complete first phase to correspond with the 2013-14 session," he said. Meanwhile, construction of the boundary wall is set to begin soon.
Kalra said the campus will be developed keeping in mind the local environmental conditions. This campus will be independent in terms of its energy and water requirements and will be completely eco-friendly. The energy needs of the campus will be met by its own 10 MW solar power plant keeping the 10 years energy need of the IIT-R in mind. "But with the spurt in the energy requirement in future following the addition of the features, we will expand the plant further", he added.
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Asian Solar Knowledge Centre to come up at IIT Rajasthan
Source: Bhaskar News | Last Updated 05:45(19/06/11)
Jodhpur: The Indian Institute of Technology, Rajasthan, will soon boast of an Asian Solar Knowledge Centre (ASKC).
Addressing newspersons on Saturday, IIT-Rajasthan director Prof. Prem K. Kalra said the representatives of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank would attend two conferences at the institute in September where the final shape of the ASKC would be discussed.
Prof. Kalra said ASKC, which is likely to receive a 1.5-million-USD-grant, would benefit scholars from all Asian countries.
He also said IIT-Rajasthan would set up two more ‘Centres of Excellence’ apart from the three that had already been proposed to come up on the campus.
The Centres of Excellence planned at IIT-Rajasthan are:
ICT
System Science
Solar Energy,
Art, culture and heritage, and
Water Align Technology
The construction of a new building for the centres will start anytime between July-December 2012.
Prof. Kalra told media persons that IIT-Rajasthan would offer many new courses from the academic session 2011-12.
Undergraduate – 40 seats in System Science
Postgraduate – 15 seats each in ICT and Energy 15-15
Ph.D – 20 seats each in ICT, Energy and System Science
Research – Solar Thermal
The new academic session at IIT-Rajasthan begins on July 25.
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