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IIT panel visits three sites in Medak

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Committee members hold talks with district officials; sitting in Basar today

TASK CUT OUT: Members of the committee on the IIT inspecting land at Lakdaram in Medak district on Sunday. - Photo: Mohd. Arif

Sangareddy: The three-member high-powered committee constituted by the State Government to identify a suitable place to set up the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the State visited all the three places shortlisted by the district administration for the purpose on Sunday. Committee members R.Natarajan, former director of IIT Chennai, N.Balakrishnan, associate director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Rajiv Sangal, director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, accompanied by K.C.Reddy, Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education, inspected lands at the Ordnance Factory in Yeddumailaram, Kandi and Lakdaram.

Slogans for IIT

Earlier, the committee members held talks with the district officials comprising the Collector, B.Venkatesam, and Joint Collector Vani Mohan. Later they received petitions from the public, while several youth wing organisations shouted slogans demanding IIT for Medak. Local MLA T.Jayaprakash Reddy, academicians, consumer protection groups, District Congress Committee ST cell, DCC Mahila wing, municipal chairpersons of Sangareddy and Sadasivapet, Mandal Parishad members of Kandi, Lakdaram and Ramachandrapuram were among those who submitted written statements demanding the IIT for Medak.

The district administration explained the suitability of Kandi over the other two sites to the committee members.

The head of the committee, R.Natarajan, refusing to furnish any details of their programme told reporters that the process of selection of a site for the IIT was a complex one and he could not announce a date within which they could file their report to the Government. The team later left for Basar in Adilabad district.

District Collector B.Venkatesam, speaking to reporters in Lakdaram, said that if the venue was finalised, another team from the Ministry of Human Resource Development would arrive for approval.

MP's plea

Adilabad Staff Reporter writes: Meanwhile, Adilabad MP T. Madhusudan Reddy on Sunday made an impassioned plea to the Congress MLAs in Adilabad district to represent people's sentiments at the sitting of the three-member high-powered committee on IIT at Basar on Monday.

Addressing a press conference here, he said the committee should be apprised of various facts that could swing the issue in favour of Basar.

The MP tried to make light of the State Government's identification of Isnapur as the probable site for establishment of the premier institute in the State.

Meanwhile, the district administration readied a power point presentation for the three-member committee. The presentation would include data on infrastructure available and proposed at Basar, available amenities, income of the temple and tourist inflow, availability of extent of land for establishment of the IIT, agriculture in the area etc.

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