Nilekanis donate Rs 50 cr to Indian Institute of Human Settlements

BS Reporter / Mumbai Jun 27, 2011, 15:02

	Print
	Email
	Comments
Share

Bangalore-based Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) has received Rs 50 crore ($11 million) from Nandan and Rohini Nilekani to fund the establishment of its School of Environment and Sustainability. Nilekani is one of the directors of IIHS.

Related Stories
	Rupee slumps to new low of 56.22 on Greece woes
	Facebook, banks sued over pre-IPO analyst calls
	Greek concern takes Wall Street down
	NSE loses trillion-dollar market cap tag, BSE a whisker away

IIHS is mobilising a resource campaign to collect Rs 300 crore to fund five interdisciplinary Schools, one of South Asia’s largest reference and digital libraries and other facilities for its Bangalore campus. An additional Rs 100 crore ($22 million) will be raised for chair professorships.

The IIHS is led by a group including Xerxes Desai, Jamshyd Godrej, Cyrus Guzder, Renana Jhabvala, Vijay Kelkar, Keshub Mahindra, Kishore Mariwala, Rahul Mehrotra, Bansi Mehta, Rakesh Mohan, Nandan Nilekani, Nasser Munjee, Deepak Parekh, Shirish Patel and Deepak Satwalekar.