PPP mode to help establish 20 IIITs

During the XIth Plan, in order to increase the skill challenges of the Indian IT industry and growth of the domestic IT market, the state Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry intends to establish 20 Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT). Besides this, 300 polytechnics are to be set up through Public Private Partnership by the state government/ union territories with roughly one fourth of the cost of capital assets being provided by the government of India with a ceiling of INR 3 crore.