Japan offers help in setting up IIT in Hyderabad

New Delhi: Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister, Masahiko Koumura today offered assistance in setting up a new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Hyderabad.

Koumura offered help in setting up the elite institute during a meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee here today.

Press Secretary of Japan's Foreign Ministry Kazuo Kodama said, "We are willing to support the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Hyderabad by providing the best of technologies."

Kodama added that both the ministers emphasised the need to have more Youth Exchange Programmes in order to strengthen the educational ties between the two countries.

As many as eight new IITs are being set up in the country during the current academic session to impart high quality technical education.

The new IITs are coming up in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.