#GoodNews: IIT-Bombay Moves Towards Women-Friendly Campus

As per reports, IIT- Bombay will take up ten research projects with the local and state governments.

After taking feedback of stakeholders over a period of two years, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay has decided to increase the presence of women on campus.

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After taking feedback of stakeholders over a period of two years, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay has decided to increase the presence of women on campus.

In order to get more women on the IIT-Bombay campus, the committee has chalked out a plan in which they aim to promote success stories of students and alumni to school going girls, provide work from home facility for researchers who have small children.

Apart from engaging more women in the institute, which has been running on the same set of goals since the year 2000, IIT Bombay will also engage with society and industry.

As per reports by the Times of India, IIT- Bombay will take up ten research projects with the local and state governments. There are plans to incubate at least five start-ups and commercialise ten patents in a year. These are the few targets that the institute aims to achieve in the next five years.

Apart from achieving all its major targets since 2000, IIT Bombay is still struggling with certain issues such as the faculty taking up part-time employment in the industry, evening programmes for industry personnel, flexible teaching schedules, a smaller student-teacher ratio, no grading in first-year undergraduate programmes, and attracting international students.

While speaking to the Times of India, a professor associated with Institute Strategy and Planning Committee (ISPC) said that the committee has introduced specific metrics and targets to measure performance in 2022. 

According to the professor, the institute is also planning to start newer programmes, including filmmaking, fine arts, and some in existing branches like earth science, biology and social sciences. Apart from that, there will also be focus on developing a cleaner and greener campus.

(With inputs from The Times of India.)

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