Permanent NIT campus to come up at Sumari

Dehradun, July 24

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The permanent campus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Uttarakhand, would come up at Sumari in Pauri district where 200 acres had been identified by the state government, officials said Tuesday.

The foundation stone for it would be laid by September. The assurance was given by Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank to Uttarakhand Higher Education Minister Dhan Singh Rawat when the latter called on him in New Delhi on Monday, an official release quoting Dhan Singh Rawat said.

Admissions to the institute in the new session would take place in Srinagar. Students of the institute, who had shifted to Jaipur last year complaining of absence of a permanent campus and lack of facilities at the institute, would soon be called back, it said. More than 100 students of the NIT had gone back home en masse last year after a prolonged agitation in protest against of the lack of facilities on the institute’s temporary campus in Srinagar. — PTI