Date:06/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/06/stories/2008030653540400.htm

Andhra Pradesh

All roads clear for admissions to IIT in Medak

Staff Reporter

Team from IIT Chennai visits Ordnance Factory at Yeddumailaram

Students to be accommodated in the two blocks of ODF Grammar School
250 students to be admitted through the IIT-JEE to be held on April 13

Sangareddy: With the three-member team of professors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, zeroing in on the Ordnance Factory at Yeddumailaram on Wednesday, all roads are now clear for admissions to IIT Medak from the ensuing academic year.

Classes would be held and students accommodated in the two blocks of ODF Grammar School and the teaching staff would be housed in the factory’s residential quarters till the new campus is built in nearby Kandi.

In all, 250 students would be admitted through the IIT-JEE which would be held on April 13. The students would be given an option of joining IIT Medak at the time of counselling.

Two years in ODF

The team consisting of professors Chandy, Ravinder Gettu and Raghunath, Director of Technical Education Premchandra Reddy, Medak Collector Piyush Kumar and revenue officials visited the site near Kandi which was chosen for the construction of the new campus.

The team proceeded to the ODF and held talks with its officers and visited the ODF Grammar School and the residential quarters.

The team members told the Collector that they would require the facility for at least two years and more accommodation would be needed with the increase in the number of students and faculty during the second year.

The team wanted more toilets and a kitchen for the makeshift hostel. The Grammar School has nearly 40 rooms and ODF is ready to provide at least 30 quarters for te IIT staff, which are away from the hostel.

Architectural marvel

Later, speaking to reporters, Medak Collector Piyush Kumar said that the team which is expected to visit the two private educational institutions in Medak and neighbouring Rangareddy district would declare their choice within a fortnight.

But he pointed out that the IIT Chennai team was impressed with the existing facilities in ODF which is under the control of the Defence Ministry. He said that architects would soon visit the Kandi site and the IIT Medak would take shape within two years and would be an architectural marvel.