The Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar has informed that there is no "proposal to establish any new IIT in the country". "Accordingly, new IITs at Tirupati and Palakkad started their academic session in 2015 and IITs at Bhilai, Jammu, Goa and Dharwad started in 2016," Sarkar informed while replying to a written question in Lok Sabha.