New Delhi: Two new schools of planning and architecture will come up in Bhopal and Vijayawada at a cost of over Rs.3.48 million, a minister said on Thursday.

The government on Thursday approved the proposal of the projects, which are to be completed by 2012-13, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan told reporters here.

"The institutes would integrate graduate, post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral education in architecture and town planning and foster research in these areas," said Chavan. IANS