The government has approved the establishment of 14 new Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT). "Under the approved scheme of setting up 20 IIITs on a not-for-profit public private partnership, the central government has given approval for establishment in 14 states," said Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor. The new IIITs will be set up in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Tripura.