NEW DELHI, July 25: The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which seeks to set up six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) including one at Jammu.
The other new IITs are to come up in Tirupati, Palakkad, Goa, Dharwad, and Bhilai. Several members supported the bill but opposed the fee hike at the premier engineering institutes.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, said that the government is focussing on improving the performance of the institutes and quality of education.
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