New Delhi Aug 29 (IANS) The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal for the Phase-II construction of Delhi Technological University (DTU) and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-D) campuses here.
"Presently DTU -- having over 9 000 students -- is being run with insufficient infrastructure facilities which were created to cater to the needs of 3 000 students " a statement from the government said.
The Cabinet granted Rs 291.88 crore for the construction at DTU which will provide infrastructure for an additional 3 800 students in two academic blocks and will provide residential accommodation to 990 more students in the three hostel blocks.
For the construction of additional areas at IIIT-D campus at Okhla the Cabinet granted its approval for the sanction of additional funds of Rs 70 crore to be given to IIIT-D as interest-free loan due to increase in cost of construction of Phase II of the Campus of IIIT-D over and above the already sanctioned loan amount of Rs 250 crore.

--IANS nks/nir