MUMBAI: In what could be one of the largest donations by an individual to the IITs, IIT-Kanpur will receive Rs 100 crore from one of its alumni – Rakesh Gangwal, co-founder of IndiGo Airline.
\nThe endowment will be made to the institute over a period of two years. The funds will be used for setting up the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology, which will also include a 500-bed super specialty hospital on the campus.
\nAmong large contributions in the past, Binny Bansal from Flipkart committed Rs 100 crore to IIT-Delhi. Bansal was to release the sum over five years. A total of Rs 36 crore has already been donated by him to the institute.
\nOn Monday, an agreement was signed between IIT-Kanpur and Rakesh Gangwal to work together on establishing the School of Medical Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: In what could be one of the largest donations by an individual to the IITs, IIT-Kanpur will receive Rs 100 crore from one of its alumni – Rakesh Gangwal, co-founder of IndiGo Airline. The endowment will be made to the institute over a period of two years. The funds will be used for setting up the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology, which will also include a 500-bed super specialty hospital on the campus. Among large contributions in the past, Binny Bansal from Flipkart committed Rs 100 crore to IIT-Delhi. Bansal was to release the sum over five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}