TIL Desk/National/Kingston/ India is planning to start new Indian Institutes of Technology abroad and Jamaica is the first country that has expressed interest in hosting it, President Ram Nath Kovind has said. Kovind, the first Indian President to visit the island nation, on Tuesday said: “India is poised to become a knowledge economy that creates, disseminates and utilises knowledge to promote growth and development.”
He praised India’s education sector, particularly its world-renowned institutes of excellence, with many of the alumni of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) heading the largest businesses and technology companies in the world.
“Under our National Education Policy released in 2020, India is planning to start new Indian Institutes of Technology abroad. I am happy that Jamaica is one of the first countries to express interest in hosting an Indian Institute of Technology here,” he said in his address to the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament of Jamaica.
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