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Images from the Pan-IIT extravaganza

December 19, 2008

Pan-IIT 2008 kicked off to a great start at IIT-Madras in Chennai on Friday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurating it through video conferencing from his office in New Delhi.

Surprisingly, of the six themes -- Research (leveraging research and technology in rural development), Entrepreneurship (enabling and launching a million entrepreneurs), Infrastructure (opportunities & problems in India), Education (transforming education for a better tomorrow), Innovation (innovation & entrepreneurship), the theme that has attracted the maximum number of people was Rural Transformation!

Text: Shobha Warrier

Photographs: Sreeram Selvaraj

Also read: Pan-IIT 2008: Complete Coverage

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