Patna, (Bihar Times): Nostalgia gripped chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday when he was present at a function of the National Institute of Technology Alumni Association, Patna. He got an occasion to freely mix with old friends, many of them present with their spouses.

So much moved was the chief minister with the situation that he suggested that the NIT Alumni Association be re-named as the BCE-NIT Alumni Association as almost all of them present there were students of the Bihar College of Engineering. His suggestion was accepted by all those present on the occasion.

Incidentally, Nitish as the railway minister under the Vajpayee government, played a key role in upgrading of the Bihar College of Engineering to the 18th National Institute of Technology in January 2004. On Sunday he confessed that the change in name pained him. Some of them present in the function were those who passed out from this college half a century back.