Foundation laying ceremony for the permanent campus of IIIT-Delhi at Okhla

Hon CM of Delhi, Ms. Shelia Dikshit, lays the foundation of Permanent Campus of IIIT-Delhi at Okhla. Construction of the Permanent Campus has already started in Okhla, where the Institute has been allotted 25 Acres of land in the GB Pant Polytechnic compound. The Phase I of the Campus will come up in the next 15 months at a cost of appx. Rs 80 crore, and will have a total area of appx 30000 sqm containing an R&D block, an academic block, boys and girls hostels, a student activity center with food court and other facilities, and a faculty residence block. The campus will employ many energy and water saving features.