Established 2015 Acronym IIT Palakkad, IIT Pkd Phone 04923 226 501 Undergraduates 230 | Director Prof P B Sunil Kumar Website www.iitpkd.ac.in Founded 2015 | |
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Type Public Education and Research Location Palakkad, Kerala, India Address Ahalia Integrated Campus, Palakkad Dist., Kozhippara, Kerala 678557 Similar Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Technolo | ||
Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad (IIT Palakkad) is a public autonomous engineering and research institute located in Palakkad, Kerala. It is one of the five new IITs proposed in the 2014 Union budget of India. The campus was inaugurated on 3 August 2015 at the temporary campus site located inside the Ahalia Integrated Campus, Palakkad.
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The Director of IIT Madras, Dr. Bhaskar Ramamurthi was made Mentor Director until the Professor-in-charge of IIT Palakkad, P B Sunil Kumar was appointed as Director by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. IIT Madras has deputed a batch of experienced professors including the ones recently retired, former deans and heads of various departments to the new campus as both permanent and visiting professors.
Campus and location
IIT Palakkad is initially functioning out of the campus of Ahalia Integrated campus, while the permanent campus would be coming up at Pudussery West in 500 acres of land. The land acquisition for the permanent campus of the IIT was expected to be complete by mid-February 2016. However, the acquisition has been further delayed.
Temporary Campus has a 55,000 sq. ft. academic building, which houses six class rooms, a seminar room, an auditorium, library, cafeteria, and faculty offices. It also provides hostel and sports and recreational facilities with access to high speed internet. Students have facilities at par with other IIT's.
The construction of the IIT Palakkad permanent campus had been delayed due the slow progress of land acquisition at the 500 acre Pudussery West site by the State Government of Kerala, and later, keeping their commitment, the State Government decided to hand over the remaining 70.02 acres of land free of cost to the IIT. The construction is to begin by mid-December 2016.
Academics
IIT Palakkad currently offers four-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) programmes in different engineering disciplines. Similar to the other IITs, admission to undergraduate programmes based on qualification through the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).
IIT Palakkad started its operation with the following 4 departments