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IIT-K alumnus Rakesh Gangwal commits another Rs 300 crore to medical school
IIT-K alumnus Rakesh Gangwal commits another Rs 300 crore to medical school
Rakesh Gangwal, co-founder of IndiGo and an IIT-Kanpur alumnus, has pledged an additional Rs 300 crore to the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology at his alma mater, taking his total…
Rakesh Gangwal, co-founder of IndiGo and an IIT-Kanpur alumnus, has pledged an additional Rs 300 crore to the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology at his alma mater, taking his total contribution to Rs 400 crore. His earlier Rs 100 crore donation in 2022 helped establish the medical school on campus.
Under the commitment, Gangwal will provide matching grants against contributions from other donors, up to Rs 300 crore, to develop the school. The plans include a 500-bed super-speciality hospital and a proposed 200-bed cancer care research centre on the IIT-K campus, aimed at advancing medical education, research, clinical innovation, and MedTech.
IIT-K director Prof Manindra Agarwal called it the highest ever contribution by an alumnus in the institute's history, and one of the largest in Indian academia.
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This donation pushes the Gangwal School's funded corpus to Rs 400 crore before construction has begun, a scale that covers the typical cost of a 500-bed teaching hospital in a Tier-2 city. IIT-K's model of pairing an engineering faculty with a medical school and attached hospital is rare in India, only IIT Jodhpur and IIT Hyderabad have announced similar integrated MedTech programmes. The matching-grant structure of up to Rs 300 crore is a deliberate fundraising tactic: it asks other donors to step forward knowing their rupee will be doubled. If fully matched, the school's endowment would reach Rs 700 crore, enough to sustain both the hospital's operations and research. The Institute's next milestone is to clear land acquisition and statutory approvals for the hospital before it can set a construction timeline.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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