Engineered To Default

• IIT Bombay and IIT Madras wanted to set up satellite campuses that would have added up to 10,000 seats
  
• Gujarat was ready to allocate 300 acres of land, also chip in with financial support for the Rs 600 crore project
  
• The HRD ministry shot down plans on the grounds that setting up satellite campuses was the prerogative of the central government
  
• Gujarat and Kerala are the main losers

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• The board of governors of IIT Bombay approved the satellite campus.
  
• The Gujarat government agreed to arrange 300 acres of land to set up the satellite campus.
  
• The state gave an undertaking that it would also get local industry to support the venture.
  
• The whole project would cost an estimated Rs 600 crore. The funding would come from the central and state governments. Business houses would also chip in.
  
• The academic year could begin from this year with classes being held at a temporary location.