Union Minister of Education, and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan will lay the foundation stone of the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology and Yadupati Singhania Super Speciality Hospital at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur campus on July 16, 2022. The ceremony will be presided over by Dr K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Kanpur.

The school is now being named ‘The Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology’ to honour the generous contribution of a distinguished alumnus Rakesh Gangwal, Co-Founder, Indigo Airlines.

The Medical School will house a 450+ bedded Yadupati Singhania Super Speciality Hospital, a 50-bedded Center for Cancer Care and Research, an Academic Block, Residential blocks, and multiple centres of excellence (CoE) for R&D in futuristic medicine. The Super Speciality Hospital is being built with CSR support from JK Cements. The Academic block and Residential blocks for the resident doctors
are being built with CSR grants from IBM India and REC Foundation, respectively.