Land Hurdle in New IIT Campuses at Chhattisgarh & Goa

Land Hurdle in New IIT Campuses at Chhattisgarh & Goa

LOCAL FIX Goa to amend its land law to find space for IIT while Chhattisgarh campus will be spread over three areas

While every state queues up to win an IIT or IIM, finding it a worthy enough campus in another battle altogether. If Chhattisgarh's IIT campus will be a combination mode with three establishments from Bhilai to Naya Raipur, tourist haven Goa needs to amend its land law to find space for the IIT.

Stuck for months due to land una vailability in Goa, the proposed new IIT in the state will now find its per manent campus only when the state a m e n d s i t s l a n d l aw. T h e Communidades of Goa -the com munity land holding system prevalent in Goa-needs to be amended to ensure that at least 300 acres are made available to set up a state-ofthe-art IIT. As per requirements set out by the Centre, a 500 acres campus is envisaged for the new IITs keeping in mind future needs and expansion. Due to land constraints in the coastal state and things already running slow, the requirement has been pruned to about 300 acres for Goa. The land amendment is expected to be taken up at the coming assembly session.

The IIT Goa permanent campus is expected to come up in Canacona in South Goa. It will operate temporar ily from the Goa Engineering college campus, of fering Electrical, Mechanical and computer Science engineering to a batch of 120 students starting this year.

The IIT Chhattisgarh has had a political twits to its tale. It will come up in Bhilaithe constituency of the state's Higher Education minister Prem Prakash Pandey. While the Centre has been pitching for the campus in Naya Raipur, the state government has been insistent on steel hub Bhilai. It has finally been agreed that while a 349 acres campus for IIT Bhilai will come at Kutelabhata, another 83 acres will be earmarked at close by Sirsa which will be connected to the main campus through a road the state government has committed to develop. Another 10 acres will be allotted in Naya Raipur to serve as an Extension centre.

Funds have not been released to both IIT Goa and Chhattisgarh pend ing land issues for the permanent campus but the two IITs are expected to start operating this year on.

Among the other new IITsIIT Tirupati will operate off a 511 acres campus in Chittoor district, IIT Palakkad in Kerala will come up on 501 acre area--both states are in the process of handing over most of the land for development. For IIT Jammu, 405 acres forest land has been dereserved in Nagrota area and handed over to mentor IITIIT Delhi, while IIT Karnataka will come up on a 507 acres area in Dharwad.

The process for appointments of Directors to the new IITs is also set to begin. 

Source | Economic Times | 23 March 2016

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