IIIT Raichur is one of the new IIITs proposed by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India, located at Raichur, Karnataka state. IIIT Raichur has started its academic activity in August 2019 with its first batch of Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering.
The institute will start functioning from its temporary campus in Govt Engineering College, Raichur from the academic year 2020-21. As the mentor institute, IIT Hyderabad will continue to oversee the functioning of IIIT Raichur. The Government Engineering College, Raichur, has been equipped with all the necessary arrangements to accommodate the IIIT Raichur. All the facilities and amenities at GEC Raichur Campus will be extended to IIIT Raichur as well.
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Karnataka
DIRECTIONS TO REACH IIIT RAICHUR CAMPUS at GEC Raichur
All the activities of IIIT Raichur will be running in new temporary campus at the Government Engineering College, Raichur.
GEC Raichur:┬аIt is located at Yeramarus which is 10 Kilometers away from Raichur city.
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From Raichur City
From Raichur Bus Station to GEC Raichur
Bus Stand Road, Androon Quilla, Raichur, Karnataka.
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+ Take a local bus at Raichur bus station towards Sagamkunta, D. Rampur. The Journey takes about 15 min from Raichur Bus station.
+ Bus station is about 7.2 Km from Government Engineering College Raichur.
+ At Raichur Bus Station Catch local bus towards Sagamkunta and D. Rampur (Raichur bus Station-Ambedkar circle stop-Basweshwara circle stop-Gung circle stop-RIMS-Yeramarus Camp-I Stop-SLN College of Engineering.)
+ GEC Bus stop will come before Yeramarus Camp I.
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Autos are also available from Raichur Bus Station to GEC Raichur.
Bus Charge approximately тАУ 10/-
Auto Charges approximately- 80/-
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From Raichur Railway Station to GEC Raichur
+ Autos are available from Raichur Railway station to Bus Stop.
+ Local autos are available from Raichur Railway station to GEC Raichur.
+ Auto Charges from Raichur Railway station to GEC Raichur Approx. 90/-
+ Local buses are available from Raichur bus station towards Sagamkunta and D. Rampur which will reach GEC Raichur within 20 min.
+ Distance from Railway station to GEC Raichur is Approximately 8.5 KM.
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From Hyderabad
By Bus from Mahatma Gandhi bus station (MGBS)
+ Take a bus towards Raichur from terminal no. 30 at Mahatma Gandhi bus station (MGBS) Hyderabad (Ticket charges Approx Rs.220/- )
+ Buses are available after every 30 min from MGBS.
+ Distance from MGBS to GEC Raichur is approx. 200 km.
By Train from Secunderabad railway station
+ Take a train from Secunderabad railway station towards Raichur.
+ Distance from Secunderabad Railway station to Raichur Railway station is approx. 220 km.
+ The Journey takes approximately 5 hrs from Secunderabad Railway Station to Raichur Railway station.
+ Ticket charges Rs.125/- (General ticket fair) from Secunderabad Railway station to Raichur Railway station.
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From Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Hyderabad
Authorized Taxis are available from RGI Airport to GEC Raichur. Taxi fare approx (Rs.3500 тАУ Rs.5000) depending on time.
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Take a Cab from RGI Airport to Mahatma Gandhi bus station (MGBS) Hyderabad, Catch interstate bus towards Raichur at terminal no 30 at Mahatma Gandhi bus station. (Ticket charges Approx Rs.220/- )
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Take a Cab from RGI Airport to Secunderabad railway station, Catch the trains towards Raichur.
IIIT
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are a group of Multidisciplinary Technical Universities of higher education in India, focused on Information Technology Engineering. Five of them are established, funded and managed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The rest are set up on the public-private partnership (PPP) model.
Prior to 2013, the IIITs at Gwalior, Allahabad, Jabalpur and Kancheepuram were set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
In 2013 the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Bill 2013 was introduced in Lok Sabha.The bill sought to grants the status of Institutes of National Importance (INI) upon the four IIITs. After much debate and changes, the bill was passed by the Parliament on 1 December 2014┬аand published as Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014 on 8 December 2014, coming into effect on 5 January 2015.
Admission
Admissions into undergraduate programmes in IIITs for 4,000 seats are through the Joint Seat Allocation Authority and JEE-Main.[20] For postgraduate programs admission is through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).
