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IIT-Madras plans a second campus

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Will soon approach State Government for land

CHENNAI: Its growth profile coupled with restrictions on expanding within reserve forest area is making Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) consider establishing a second campus.

"We hope to find land elsewhere to put up a second campus," IIT-M director M.S. Ananth told a national seminar here on Thursday.

Later, talking to The Hindu he said IIT-M at one point considered setting up the proposed second campus in another State. But, with the Centre shooting down the proposal, it would soon approach the Tamil Nadu Government for land.

He also told the seminar on `After globalisation: resurgence of history, ideology, nation and religion,' that in terms of new faculty, IIT-M had made 210 job offers over the last five years across various departments.

The Institute's Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is organising the two-day seminar.

According to Tata Consultancy Services vice-president K. Ananth Krishnan, who was the chief guest at the inaugural session, technology was a key driver of globalisation.

It made travel and communication easier.

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