Four new IITs and six IIMs are announced on Friday to be established by Government in various states besides upgrading some of the state universities to the status of central universities. The decision is taken to encourage higher education in the country.
The new IITs would be located in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh (Indore), Gujarat and Punjab and the IIMs would come up in Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh (Raipur), Uttarakhand and Haryana. These new institutions would be...