New Delhi: To address the increasing skill challenges of the Indian IT industry and growth of the domestic IT market, the state Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry intends to establish 20 Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) during the XIth Plan.

"Although, the proposal is for setting up all twenty IIITs in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode, since industry participation may not be forthcoming in some states like in the north east, it is proposed that IIITs in the north east may be set up by the central government with contributions from Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DONER)," said the Minister of state for HRD, D. Purandeswari, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

Besides this, 300 polytechnics are to be set up through PPP by the state government/ union territories with roughly one fourth of the cost of capital assets being provided by the government of India with a ceiling of Rs.3 crore.

"These 300 polytechnics will be selected in consultation with the state government/ union territories, various industrial organizations such as CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM and PHD Chamber of Commerce, etc," said an official.