Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, inaugurated a new campus at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Jammu on Sunday.
The home minister arrived at Jammu on the second day of his visit to the Union Territory to inaugurate the new campus at IIT-Jammu and also lay the foundation stones for various development projects.
He will also meet MPs, MLAs and senior BJP leaders later in the day, ANI news agency reported.
Amit Shah is being accompanied by Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Dr Jitendra Singh and J-K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha.
Taking to Twitter, Dharmendra Pradhan said Amit Shah dedicated Phase 1A and 1B of the permanent campus of IIT Jammu and Saptarshi, a multidisciplinary research centre.
The union minister also laid the foundation stone for the construction of the last phase 1C of the permanent campus.
“Phase 1A & 1B of IIT Jammu has been developed at a total cost of Rs 210 crore. Phase 1C is estimated to be developed at a total cost of over Rs 700.19 crore,” Pradhan tweeted.
