IIT Delhi to Set Up a Campus in UAE; Read More

New Delhi: On Monday, the Ministry of Education informed the Lok Sabha that on the Centre’s request, IIT Delhi has held two rounds of meetings with the Department of Education and Knowledge, Abu Dhabi, to set up a campus in United Arab Emirates (UAE).

When IIT Madras among others, started considering requests from many countries, including Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania, as part of its expansion plans, this development came into context. The plans worked under a framework developed by a committee chaired by former ISRO chairperson Dr K Radhakrishnan.

In February the decision to establish an Indian Institute of Technology in the UAE was announced in the vision statement issued jointly by the two countries. The government chose IIT Delhi as it had earlier expressed interest in having campuses in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to execute the proposal.

As per the answer said by the Ministry of Education in response to a question raised by Congress MP MK Raghavan, “As per the joint India-UAE vision statement issued on February 18, 2022, after a virtual summit between the leaders of the two countries,…the leaders agreed to establish an Indian Institute of Technology in the United Arab Emirates. As a follow-up to this, the government has requested the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to explore the possibility of establishing a campus in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). IIT Delhi requested the Indian ambassador to the UAE to identify and arrange a meeting with the relevant UAE authorities.”

Shashi Tharoor, Member of the Lok Sabha, has tweeted on IIT Delhi’s UAE Campus stating:

India to set up first IIT abroad in UAE under newly inked trade deal:
https://t.co/tyxTLL56CE
Will Indian students who crack the JEE also be eligible to attend? Will UAE & other nationals be admitted without JEE? @PiyushGoyal @dpradhanbjp
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) February 19, 2022

According to further details shared by the Education Ministry, based on IIT Delhi’s request, the Department of Education and Knowledge, Abu Dhabi, or ADEK, was identified as the relevant authority in this regard. Hence, two meetings were held.

“In the first ADEK-IITD meeting, both sides made presentations about their respective organisations and conveyed their eagerness and enthusiasm to move forward with this project. In the second ADEK-IITD meeting, ADEK invited representatives from the Department of Economic Development and from the Advanced Technology Research Council who made presentations on the economic vision and the research priorities of Abu Dhabi, respectively,” the statement added.

In 2021, IIT Delhi proposed an expression of willingness to the government to set up campuses in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The proposal states that the overseas campuses will offer four-year UG courses with an annual intake of up to 240 students in four branches based on SAT scores .

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