After visiting the three sites — Mysuru, Dharwad, and Raichur — proposed by the Karnataka government for establishing an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), a Central team feels that all the three are perfect for establishing the premier institute.
R. Subramanian, Additional Secretary (Technical Education), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), who headed the Union government, team told presspersons that all the three sites were ideal, considering the availability of land and water resources, infrastructure, connectivity and other essential factors. “We are very much impressed by the commitment, enthusiasm and interest shown by Karnataka government, its officials, people’s representatives and general public for getting an IIT. We have seen all the three sites proposed by State government and all are excellent. I can tell you that it is going to be a very good IIT. An IIT is not an engineering college, but a knowledge hub of a very high order, not only at the national level but also at the international level. Hence, we basically require a knowledge environment. We also look at industrial environment so that what IIT produces should be useful to the industry,” Mr. Subramanian said. To a question, Mr. Subramanian said that the team would submit a report to MHRD within a week.
The other two members of the team, Sudhir L. Jain, Director of IIT Gandhinagar, and Ravikanth Soni, Chief Engineer, Central Public Works Department, and Bharat Lal Meena, Principal Secretary, Department of Higher Education, were present.
The team earlier visited Dharwad and inspected the facilities there. It visited Mysuru on Thursday.
