PM Narendra Modi inaugrates IIT Madras 'Discovery Campus'
India TodayPrime Minister of India, Narendra Modi inaugurated the Discovery Campus of Indian Institute of Technology Madras, located at Thaiyur near Chennai, to accommodate the growing research infrastructure requirements of students and faculty. Given the rapidly expanding research footprint of IIT Madras, and the need to create world-class research facilities quickly over the next decade, the satellite campus at Thaiyur has been planned primarily as a research campus. After the pioneering IIT Madras Research Park established in 2010-2017, the IIT Madras Discovery Campus will be next iconic facility to be created by IIT Madras. Along with the unique Main Campus and the IIT Madras Research Park, the Discovery Campus of IIT Madras will take IIT Madras to the top of the league among the universities of the world.