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Patna,(BiharTimes): Though the Nitish government has finally provided 100 acres of land to the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna and the latter has accepted it––reportedly with some reluctance––a new problem has emerged before this engineering college. |
While stating that his government can not give 300 acres of land as Bihar is essentially an agrarian state chief minister Nitish Kumar had earlier suggested the NIT authorities to go for vertical construction, that is, build multi-storied building to overcome space crunch. But now the NIT authorities are sceptical about it as the land provided by the state government in village Amhara near Bihta block of Patna district is sandy. River Sone is not far away from there and high rise building can not be build in that particular area. Besides, the land is not in one plot and two roads pass through it.
According to S M Jha, the Director (In-charge), NIT, Patna, based on maps provided by the state government, it can be said that the land is not a single plot and two roads pass through it. In such a situation, it would be difficult for it to function smoothly.
Now the NIT administration has formed a three-member committee comprising teachers and officials for inspecting the land and the legal documents of the plot.
The decision to open NIT in Patna was taken during the then Vajpayee government in 2003-04. Nitish, then the Railway Minister, played an important role. It was upon his suggestion that the Bihar College of Engineering, his alma mater, was converted into NIT, Patna. It was Nitish, who first raised the demand of land for the new campus for NIT.
Ironically it took over six long years after he became the chief minister for the same NIT to get land.
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