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Security tightened at Kharagpur IIT

Special Correspondent

KOLKATA: Security has been considerably tightened in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, which has the largest campus of the seven such institutes in the country, in the wake of last week's terror attack in the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore. Similar steps have been taken in all the other IITs, it is learnt.

The situation is being reviewed daily and entry to its compounds — spread over more than 2000 acres — strictly monitored. The implementation of plans for installing a sophisticated and elaborate security system complete with a "centralised security frame" with surveillance cameras put up in different places of the sprawling campus, its Registrar D. Gunasekaran told The Hindu over telephone on Thursday.

The authorities got into the act "immediately" after the Bangalore incident and a high level meeting with the institute's security officers convened to chalk out measures to step up security, Dr. Gunasekaran said.

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