President gives nod to setting up of 6 new IITs
President Pranab Mukherjee has given his nod to Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2016, which seeks to set up six new IITs in Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh), Palakkad (Kerala), Dharwad (Karnataka), and Bhilai (Chhattisgarh). Further, Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad has been brought under the law and it will now be renamed as IIT (ISM).