Architecture students from IIT Kharagpur and America’s MIT will soon conduct a joint study on how to preserve the heritage of Rabindranath Tagore’s abode in Santiniketan.

The department of architecture and regional planning at IIT Kharagpur has tied-up with the School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a course to study urbanisation in the current developing world.

A group of 6-8 students, at graduate and undergraduate levels from each institute, will come to Santiniketan this October for their research work.

Officials said during this period they will make a proposal regarding an integrated site management strategy for Visva Bharati university.

They will also suggest guidelines to control the scattered and unsystematic development in the university campus and tailor it in sync with Tagore’s ideology behind the inception of the place.