{"id":482522,"date":"2022-04-06T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482522"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T03:24:47","slug":"indigo-co-founder-rakesh-gangwal-pledges-rs-100-cr-to-alma-mater-iit-kanpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-co-founder-rakesh-gangwal-pledges-rs-100-cr-to-alma-mater-iit-kanpur\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo co-founder Rakesh Gangwal pledges Rs 100 cr to alma mater IIT Kanpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the largest private donations made to an educational entity, IndiGo Co-founder Rakesh Gangwal has pledged to donate Rs 100 crore to his alma mater Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, to establish a medical school on the campus.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was signed between the institute and Gangwal on Monday to support the flagship medical project. The proposed school will be named \u2018Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology&#8217; where he will join its Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed medical school will play an important role in driving IIT Kanpur\u2019s innovations in medical research and technology and catapult India into the global league of institutions that are converging medical sciences and technology to benefit humankind,\u201d said IIT Kanpur Director Abhay Karandikar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the largest private donations made to an educational entity, IndiGo Co-founder Rakesh Gangwal has pledged to donate Rs 100 crore to his alma mater Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, to establish a medical school on the campus. The agreement was signed between the institute and Gangwal on Monday to support the flagship medical project. The proposed school will be named \u2018Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology&#8217; where he will join its Advisory Board. \u201cThe proposed medical school will play an important role in driving IIT Kanpur\u2019s innovations in medical research and technology and catapult India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482522","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}