The Delhi government on Wednesday launched a scheme for IIIT-D to help fund its research programmes and also to encourage the autonomous, self-sustaining institute to raise funds for itself from outside sponsors.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia launched an annual 'matching fund' scheme for Indraprashtha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D), according to which the state government will allocate as much amount of research fund to the institute as the latter manages to raise from outside sponsors.
The largesse thus promised to the institue by the state government will also incentivise the corporate sponsors to invest in the institute, the government said.
IIIT-D has already raised over Rs 15 crore for research in computer science, electronics and communication and information technology which will be matched by the Delhi government.
The corporate sponsors which have invested in the institute are IBM, Google, Infoys, TCS, Adobe, VMWare, among others, with Infosys being the most generous of them all with a grant of Rs 8 crore.
"For supporting research, the government has approved the Director of IIIT Delhi, Professor Pankaj Jalote's proposal that it (the government) will provide a matching grant each year to the Institute for the funds it raises from funding agencies and corporations," said a Delhi government statement.
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