Kalinga Times Correspondent
Bhubaneswar, Dec 25: Aragul near Jatni has been finally chosen as the place for setting up of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar.

A four-member Central team sent by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development selected Aragul after visiting four different places.

The team comprised Ashok Thakur, Additional Secretary in the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development; Damodar Acharya, Director of IIT Kharagpur; A.K. Dey, former Director of IIT Mumbai; and K. Narayan Rao, Secretary of All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

The place selected is 12 km from Bhubaneswar airport by road and four km away from Jatni railway junction.

According to sources, the state government assured the visiting team that they would complete the formal transfer of the land shortly. Once the process is over, process of construction of the campus for the new IIT.

IIT Kharagpur, the mentor IIT for IIT Bhubaneswar, is facilitating the establishment of the new institute.

The classes of IIT Bhubaneswar, which are now running at Kharagpur, will be held at the Bhubaneswar Centre of IIT Kharagpur from July next year.