Government set up a panel for framework on Indian University to start foreign campus

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The Government of India has set up a 16 member panel to lay down a road map for the Indian Universities to set up a foreign campuses.

The panel is headed by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) council standing committee chairman K Radhakrishnan.

• The committee includes  the directors of seven IITs of   Dhanbad, Madras,Mumbai, Delhi, Kharagpur,  Kanpur, Guwahati,  the vice chancellors (VCs) of four central universities — Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Banaras Hindu University and University of Hyderabad and the director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
• The committee was set up after IIT Delhi submitted a proposal to set up a campus in Saudi Arabia and in Egypt.