The chief minister formally launched the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) last week, releasing its admission brochure for the 2008-09 academic year. The state university for IT which seeks to broadbase study of the subject will start enrolling students from this academic year and will temporarily function from the NSIT campus in Dwarka before shifting to its own campus in Okhla.

IIIT, according to director Panjaj Jalote, will be specifically looking at applications of IT in various fields like e-governance , defence, life sciences, education , finance, automobile engineering and mobile computing . It will be a research-led institute offering facilities for B tech, M Tech and Phd. Former Nasscom chief Karan Karnik, who is a member of the institute's board of directors, lauded the effort to create students who would create intellectual property rather than swell the ranks of educated job-seekers .

The form is available on the institute's website iiitd .ac.in. Last date for receiving completed forms is August 20 and the examination is on August 23.