The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Palakkad is planning to start academic courses from the next academic year. Kerala government has agreed to offer 500 acres of land for the new IIT campus at Puthusseri near Kanjikode as suggested by the IIT expert committee and till the new campus comes up, IIT Palakkad will start offering courses from a temporary campus in Palakkad from next year.

The temporary campus of IIT Palakkad will be based 20 km from Palakkad and 25 km from Coimbatore, in the Ahalia Group of Institutions campus near Walayad. This temporary campus of IIT has good accessibility to Wi-Fi, well-facilitated training labs, cafeteria, gymnasium, a training and placement cell and well-furnished hostels for boys and girls too. Also, they provide sports and recreational and transportation facilities at the new IIT campus.

The state government is in the process of identifying and acquiring other 100 acres of land for the campus. In the first stage, the Central government will spend Rs 2,200 crore on the IIT Palakkad campus. "In the next academic session, IIT Palakkad will offer Civil, Mechanical, Computer Science, and Electronic Engineering courses to offer 120 students at its temporary campus," said IIT Palakkad Director P B Sunil Kumar.