Members of Indian Institute of Technology College Horata Samiti took out a procession and staged a dharna outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Friday urging to pressure the Union government to set up an IIT in Davangere.
They took out the procession from Madakari Circle and culminated outside the Deputy Commissioner’s office.
They said that Davangere had a congenial atmosphere for the IIT with rail and road connectivity from every corner of the State.
“As per the Dr. Nanjundappa Committee report, the district is backward and has no major industries. So setting up IIT in the district would boost educational and economic growth,” they added.
Since there was ample land near Kondajji village there was a possibility that the surrounding area could get a boost and other institutions would also open their units.
Districts like Raichur, Hubballi-Dharwad and Mysuru already have a lot of technological institutes and universities and therefore the Centre should set up the institute here, they said.
They submitted a memorandum in this regard to Prime Minister Narendra Modi through Deputy Commissioner S.T. Anjankumar and said that the agitation would be intensified if the Union government failed to fulfill their demand soon.
