Goa to get its own NIT

Updated on: Thursday, December 10, 2009

Mangalore: Goa will have its own National Institute of Technology (NIT) from the next academic year. This will be one of 10 such new NITs to come up across India and 10 existing NITs including NIT-Karnataka (NITK) at Surathkal near here has been given the task of `initial mentoring' and `holding' of the proposed NIT closest to them. NITK by virtue of its proximity to Goa will carry out this task of mentoring and holding.

NITK director Sandeep Sancheti had a 30-minute meeting with Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat and the Goa secretary for tourism, ports and education M Moddassir as well officials from the Board of Technical Education in this regard on December 4. Sancheti told TOI that it was agreed at the meeting that NIT Goa would function from the next academic year and cater to interests of students from Daman and Diu as well.

The process of setting up NIT Goa would start with constituting of a four or five-member site search committee. "Ideally, we will need around 300 acres of contiguous piece of land," Sancheti said, adding that the committee could complete this task by this month-end. The new NIT may receive some funding from the Union government in this financial year itself to enable the new institution get off the ground, Sancheti noted.

There are two important steps in setting up NIT Goa. The first is its registration as a society with the formal approval of memorandum of association, he explained. This would then be followed by the process of setting up the board of governors of the new institution. The second step will help it become administratively independent. NITK will continue to support the new NIT academically until it finds its feet fully, he noted.

Goa to get its own NIT

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