The first IIT campus outside India will come up at Zanzibar in Tanzania, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
- A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for the setting up of a campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar.
- The agreement was signed in the presence of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Zanzibar’s President Hussein Ali Mwinyi.
- This campus is reflective of the longstanding friendship between India and Tanzania and a reminder of the focus India places on building people to people ties across Africa and the Global South.
- It said the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 recommends that high performing Indian universities will be encouraged to set up campuses in other countries.
