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A CRDA Authority meeting chaired by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu approved India's first dedicated Quantum and AI University campus at Amaravati.
The campus will be established by NIELIT, a deemed-to-be university under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, on 8.5 acres.
The project is costed at Rs 730.70 crore over five years and is to be funded entirely by Government of India grant-in-aid through MeitY.
Academic programmes are to begin in September 2026 from a temporary facility at Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, while the permanent campus is built.
The campus targets about 8,250 learners in five years, of whom about 1,650 through degree programmes and 6,600 through skilling and certification.
An autonomous scientific society with deemed-to-be university status that runs electronics and IT education and skilling; it will set up and run the Amaravati campus
The state authority for planning and development of the capital region; its Authority meeting cleared the campus proposal
Approved by the Union Cabinet on 19 April 2023 with an outlay of Rs 6,003.65 crore for 2023-24 to 2030-31, it aims to build scientific and industrial capacity in quantum technology - the trained workforce for which has to come from institutions such as this one.
The campus's chip design, VLSI and ATMP streams address the design and packaging skills gap that accompanies fabrication investment.
The artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science streams feed the national push on AI capacity.
The state provides land and clearance through CRDA while the Centre funds the project entirely through MeitY grant-in-aid - a model worth citing in answers on cooperative federalism in higher education.
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An institution granted university status by the Central Government on the recommendation of the University Grants Commission, allowing it to award its own degrees without being created by a separate Act.
Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging - the back-end stage of semiconductor manufacturing in which fabricated chips are packaged and tested.
Funds transferred by one level of government to another body or level for a specified purpose, not repayable, here the mode by which MeitY funds the entire campus.