PM to inaugurate IIT Dharwad new campus: Joshi

Union Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said the inauguration date of the new IIT Dharwad campus will be finalised after reviewing the progress of the construction next week.

If everything goes as per plans, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad campus of on January 1, The Hindu reported. While inspecting the ongoing construction at Mummigatti Industrial Estate on the outskirts of Dharwad, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi said preparations were on to get the IIT Dharwad campus inaugurated by the Prime Minister, for which he had already given consent, the report said. 

Joshi said the inauguration date would be finalised after reviewing the progress of the construction next week. He said Modi was scheduled to visit the state at least two to three times in January to take part in various programmes. 

On the move to rename ‘Salam Arati’ as ‘Namaskara’, Joshi said the term ‘Namaskara’ was used in Sanskrit and Kannada. There was a need to come out of the ‘slave culture’ and reinstate the local culture, he said. 

IIT Dharwad is an autonomous premier institute founded by the Ministry of Education in 2016 under the mentorship of IIT Bombay. Currently, the Institute offers a total of nine courses via eight departments in the stream of science and technology at UG, PG and PhD levels. At present, IIT Dharwad is operating from its temporary campus established within the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI). 

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