IIT Kanpur allows research scholars to return to campus after six months

The students had vacated hostels in March 2020 following pandemic

Six months after the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur had asked its students to vacate hostels following the Covid-19 outbreak, the premier Institute has now allowed its research scholars to return to the campus. In the first phase, the IIT Kanpur will allow PhD students to return, followed by the Masters students in separate batches.

“The first batch of 280 PhD students will undergo the 14 days’ mandatory quarantine in a special quarantine hostel, before they are allowed to return to their respective hostel blocks,” IIT Kanpur Director Prof Abhay Karandikar told Business Standard.

These students will return to