The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) joins the Hedera Hashgraph council for decentralized governance. ITM is one of India's top institutes for technical education, which falls under the direct jurisdiction of India's Ministry of Education. By joining the Hedera Governing Council, IITM becomes the 39 global organizations that run initial network nodes for governing the Hedera public ledger built on distributed ledger technology (DLT).