The Campus Front of India has said that it will launch a protest in North Karnataka if the Union government does not change its decision to set up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Dharwad and relocate it to Raichur as recommended by a high-powered committee on redressal of regional imbalances headed by D.M. Nanjundappa.
Abdul Rahim, State president of the organisation, told presspersons here on Monday that Bharatiya Janata Party leaders from the Bombay Karnataka region were conspiring to deny the IIT to Raichur and were pressuring the Union government to establish the IIT at Dharwad. He said that the people of the region continued to be denied of reservation facilities in education and employment as per the provisions of Article 371(J) of the Constitution.
Mr. Rahim said that the government had also failed to ensure that these facilities were extended properly to the people of the region. Even the funds allocated under the Hyderabad Karnataka Region Development Board were not being spent properly.
The funds allocated under a special development programme to implement the recommendations of the high-powered committee on the redressal of regional imbalances, headed by D.M. Nanjundappa, too were not being spent, he said.
