Earlier, announcement had been made to establish an IIT in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh and an IIM at Shillong. Though some of these institutions had been expected to be operational earlier, the IITs, barring the one in Himachal and the IIM in Shillong will begin admitting students from the 2008-09 academic year.
It is not clear how these institutions will actually deliver on this announcement, given that the Rajasthan government is yet to finalise a site for the IIT, and that physical infrastructure required to function from July 2008 is nowhere near complete.
It would appear that IIT (Delhi) would assist IIT (Rajasthan) in its efforts, while IIT (Bihar) would be assisted by IIT (Kanpur) and IIT (Andhra Pradesh) by IIT (Chennai).
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