Highway No. 5 (a part of the Golden Quadrilateral) to this new IIT for increased connectivity. Khurda Rd railway station is 4 km away from the campus, and the Biju Patnaik airport is 35 km away. A new international airport is being constructed even closer to the IIT campus at a distance of 12 km. Organization and administration Governance All IITs follow the same organization structure which has President of India as visitor at the top of the hierarchy. Directly under the president is the IIT Council. Under the IIT Council is the board of governors of each IIT. Under the board of governors is the director, who is the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. Under the director, in the organizational structure, comes the deputy director. Under the director and the deputy director, come the deans, heads of departments, registrar. Schools The institute has adopted the concept of Schools rather than Departments for promoting inter-disciplinary research. At present the following Schools offer academic programmes: School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Bio Science & Mathematics) School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management (Economics, English & Psychology) School of Mechanical Sciences (Mechanical Engineering) School of Infrastructure (Civil Engineering) School of Electrical Sciences (CSE, ECE & Electrical Engineering) School of Mineral, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (Metallurgy & Material Engineering) School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences (Geology, Atmospheric & Ocean Science) Research Centres Virtual & Augmented Reality Design & Innovation Probiotics & Human Microbiome Material Science AI & Mechatronics Human-Computer Interface Quantum Chemistry Protein Biophysics Synthetic Organic Chemistry Coastal Observatory Chips 2 Startup Structure Academics The academic programmes of Institute include BTech (Hons.) in Computer Science, Civil, Electrical, ECE and Mechanical Engineering with an intake capacity of 50 each at the undergraduate level. BTech (Hons.) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering is with intake capacity of 20. The institute also started Dual degree courses in Mechanical and Civil with intake of 10 from academic year 2016–17, which has been increased to 15 for Mechanical and 13 for Civil as of 2020–21. The Institute started the Doctoral programme from the academic session 2009–2010 and will offer admission to the joint MTech-PhD Programme from July 2012. The institute has broadly adopted the course curricula, syllabi and other academic regulations of IIT Kharagpur, the mentor institute. Academic year The academic year is divided into two semesters, a spring semester and an autumn semester. Between