Kapil Sibal aims at making IIT at par with Global institutes

Human Resource and Development minister, Mr. Kapil Sibal is looking ahead to bring reputed IITs at par with the foreign universities as it was announced after the meeting, which lasted for almost three and half hours, that IITs would offer Medical courses at  the post graduate level with the induction of both the foreign students and professors in the institute.

This decision to bringing global exposure to IIT was taken at a meeting of IIT council presided by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal here on Friday. Everything now depends on the Medical council of India which has been asked by the government to grant the approval in this regard.

Sibal also told the reporters that this step of his was primarily taken to boost the level of IITs and bring it at par with international institutes and to make them global in every sense.

He also told that the nearly 25 percent of the seat will be reserved for foreign students who will be enrolled in the post-graduate course and the foreigners would account for a maximum of 10 percent of the faculty. The minister said that medicine and medical research courses will be added to the field of IITs.

The meeting panel also decided to bring necessary amendments in the Institute of Technology’s Act to enable the IITs to offer the medicine programme, as per sources.

The latest buzz of the hour is the new pattern of IIT entrance regarding which Sibal told that marks obtained by a student in Class 12 along with an aptitude test would decide admissions into IITs and other engineering colleges. However, he did not declare any timeframe for the implementation of this pattern.

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