Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister of Haryana, said on Sunday that the IIT Delhi extension campus would be built on a 50-acre plot of land in the Badsa village of the Jhajjar district.
In a meeting with IIT-Delhi representatives in the nation’s capital on Sunday, Khattar authorised the plan to build the famed institute’s extension campus and pledged full support for the project.
At the meeting were V Umashankar, principal secretary to the chief minister of Haryana, Vijayendra Kumar, principal secretary to the technical education and higher education department, Rajiv Rattan, director of technical education, Prof. Rangan Banerjee, director of IIT-Delhi, and other faculty members from the institute.
According to Khattar, this site would house India’s first precision medicine centre.
The Haryana chief minister declared that new medical technologies would be created using patient data obtained from the National Cancer Institute in Badsa.
To create medicine for a specific patient, precision medicine research is necessary. According to a statement from the Haryana government, this programme would also help our pharmaceutical businesses because they will be able to create novel cancer treatments based on research from the National Cancer Institute and IIT-technological Delhi’s expertise.
In addition, research on dental implants, senior hip protection devices, and prosthetic knee joints will be conducted on campus to investigate new technology.
Khattar advised that the Sports University at Rai in Sonipat be consulted in the development of technology and research for athletes.
Prof. Rangan Banerjee was informed during the meeting that the campus’ construction would take roughly three years.
Additionally, according to the statement, it could take three to five years to fully develop academic programmes and facilities for research and design that are specifically targeted at patients of the National Cancer Institute.
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