Sonepat To Come Up With IIIT, IIFTEM

The Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and the Indian Institute of Food Technology Enterpreneurship and Management (IIFTEM) will soon be set up in Sonepat, Haryana.

On Friday an official spokesman said that the IIIT will come up at Kilrod village while the IIFTEM will be established at kundli. He also said that the Centre was also considering setting up a National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Haryana while it has already approved the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Sunaria village.

Classes are held for this institute at the temporary campus in Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak. Fifty students were enrolled in 2010-11 and 125 students took admission in 2011-12.

Besides, four institutes- State Institute of Film and Television, State Institute of Fashion and Design, State Institute of Communication and State Institute of Fine Art were also set up at Rohtak with highly developed infrastructure. Admissions for the current session have been started by this Institutes.