x

First IIT outside India: Indian Institutes of Technology campus to be established in Tanzania’s Zanzibar, says MEA

Shortpedia

Content Team
Image Credit: Twitter/@airnewsalerts

The first IIT campus outside India will come up in Tanzania's Zanzibar, the MEA said on Thursday. A MoU has been signed for setting up of a campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar, which is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. The agreement was inked on Wednesday in presence of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Zanzibar's President Hussein Ali Mwinyi. Jaishakar is on a visit to Tanzania.