IITKGP to establish campus in Malaysia

IIT Kharagpur Director said the institute aims to become the world-wide benchmark in education excellence by establishing IT Malaysia, which will be a major step for the institute to set its footprint in the international domain. 

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur is planning to set up its campus in Malaysia as part of a plan to go global, institute Director VK Tewary said during the 68th convocation ceremony of the institute.

“IIT Kharagpur aims to become the world-wide benchmark in education excellence by establishing IT Malaysia, which will be a major step for the institute to set its footprint in the international domain,” he said. Tewary, however, did not give any timeline for the establishment of the new college in Malaysia nor any information whether it would be a joint venture with any other institute, The Economic Times reported.
He also said the institute had compiled a compendium of 75 innovations, wrought by its staff and researchers. Listing the project innovation success stories of IIT Kharagpur in the past two years, he said while the ‘Covirap' diagnostic kit for coronavirus was sold at INR 6.7 crore, many other successful new devices fetched more than INR 1 crore. 

The institute awarded 1574 UG; 998 PG; 24 MS; 429 research scholars that includes 374 PhD [with 31 PhD (Joint)]; 46 LLB; 750 MTech; 6 MMST; 17MHRM; 39 MCP; 97 MBA; 14 LLM; 29 EMBA; 604 MTech Dual Degree; 2 MSc and MTech; 496 BTech (Hons); 37 BArch (Hons); 221 five-year integrated MSc; 5 three-year MSc and 209 two-year MSc degrees at the conocation ceremony.  

"From Vinod Gupta to Sunder Pichai, many ex-IIT KGPians, numbering thousands, brought laurels to the institute," Tewary said. 

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