IITGN was included in The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011.The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.The permanent campus of IIT Gandhinagar, on the banks of the Sabarmati River near Palaj village, is under construction and is nearing completion. In 2011, in his inaugural speech for the Amalthea technology summit, then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi spoke of the land for the new permanent campus, saying, "[the] [s]tate government has decided to give [...] land on 99 year lease with a token amount of just one rupee for setting up a campus of IIT-Gandhinagar." The institute took possession of over 400 acres of land in August 2012 and the classes and other activities were started on the new campus from July 2015. The institute will function as a fully residential campus and will be constructed in phases. The campus will be run on solar power. It is envisioned to be a pollution-free, green zone.