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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following is not among the list of 6 new IITs announced by the Union Government
A
Jammu
B
Goa
C
Tirupati
D
Raipur
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A. The seven old IITs are IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati and IIT Delhi.

Detailed explanation-2: -From 2008 to 2009, eight new IITs were set up in Gandhinagar, Jodhpur, Hyderabad, Indore, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Ropar, and Mandi. Following a similar selection process since 1972, in 2012 the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University was made a member of the IITs and renamed as IIT (BHU) Varanasi.

Detailed explanation-3: -THE NEWEST IITS "Accordingly, new IITs at Tirupati and Palakkad started their academic session in 2015 and IITs at Bhilai, Jammu, Goa and Dharwad started in 2016. In the state of Uttar Pradesh, IIT Kanpur and IIT (BHU), Varanasi are operational, ” Sarkar said.

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