Chandigarh, 20 November - Haryana Chief Minister Mr. Manohar Lal said that an extension campus of IIT Delhi will be set up on 50 acres of land in village Badsa in Jhajjar district.. The Chief Minister held a meeting regarding the establishment of this campus with the officials of IIT Delhi at Haryana Bhawan, Delhi today.

In this meeting, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Sh. V. Umashankar, Principal Secretary of Technical Education and Higher Education, Sh. Vijayendra Kumar, Director, Technical Education, Sh. Rajiv Rattan, Director of IIT Delhi, Prof. Rangan Banerjee and other faculty members of IIT Delhi were present.

In the meeting, Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal approved the proposal of setting up an extension campus of IIT Delhi at village Badsa in Jhajjar. He assured the team of IIT Delhi that the Haryana Government would extend complete cooperation to set up the campus. He said that with this initiative, new health care technologies will be developed by incorporating the data of patients received from the National Cancer Institute located at Badsa. Apart from MSc, PhD, different types of certificate courses will also be started on this campus. These special courses and training programmes will impart and enhance skills of the youth. It will create various employment opportunities for the youth of Haryana, he added.

The Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal said that this campus will become India's first centre for precision medicine. Precision medicine is research which is required to develop medicine according to a particular patient. This initiative will also benefit our pharma companies as the companies will be able to develop new medicines for cancer patients on the basis of research by medical experts of National Cancer Institute and technical experts from IIT Delhi.

The Chief Minister also said that technology to perform better in sports and prevention of injury would also be developed in this campus to help the players to perform in a better way. The Chief Minister suggested that the technology and research to be developed for the sports persons should be developed in coordination with the Sports University, Rai (Sonipat) so that the sports persons can get maximum benefit out of it.

It was apprised in the meeting that this campus will develop techniques for the treatment of cancer patients by using medical imaging and artificial intelligence, so that the place of origin of cancer tissue can be detected and there will be no need of removing the entire organ affected by cancer form the body. Apart from this, research work on dental implants, hip protection devices in the elderly, prosthetic knee joints, etc. will continue in the campus to explore new technology required from time to time with the help of technical experts of IIT Delhi.

In the meeting, Director, IIT Delhi, Prof. Rangan Banerjee was apprised that it will take about 3 years for the construction of the campus. Besides this, it may take 3 to 5 years to completely expand academic programmes and development of research and design facilities focusing on the patients of the National Cancer Institute.