IIT Madras becomes first ever IIT to be set up outside India in Tanzania

IIT Madras becomes first ever IIT to be set up outside India in Tanzania: Recently, the Ministry of External Affairs signed an MoU with the IIT Madras and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training Zanzibar (Tanzania) to set up the first-ever IIT campus outside India.

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It was signed in the presence of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Zanzibar’s President Hussein Ali Mwinyi.

The National Education Policy 2020 recommends that high-performing Indian universities will be encouraged to set up campuses in other countries.