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“Establish NIT in Puducherry”

PUDUCHERRY: Leader of the PMK in Parliament M.Ramadass on Friday urged the Centre to initiate immediate steps to establish a National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Puducherry.

The territorial government would be willing to offer the required land, he said, adding that the institute could be started this year itself, if the Ministry so decided, by securing transit accommodation on the campus of the Puducherry Engineering College.

In a letter to Union Minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh, he said the demand assumed significance against the backdrop of the new policy announced by the Centre for admission to NITs from this academic year.

According to the policy, 50 per cent of seats of a NIT would be allotted to the students belonging to the respective State and the remaining would be filled from the merit list prepared on the basis of the performance of candidates in the all India examination, he said, adding that this would deprive the students of facilities in a national institute.

“More particularly, the students of Puducherry are likely to be victims of the changed admission policy and they are likely to forego the reserved seats, which they were getting in NITs till last year,” he said.

Apart from this, there were other pertinent factors which justified the establishment of a NIT in Puducherry such as the need to meet an increasing demand for sophisticated, qualitative technical and scientific manpower consistent with the rapid transformation of the Union Territory’s economy and provide a new opportunity to the local students to master in specialised courses and become experts.

The NIT could create centres of excellence which would improve the scope for the qualitative technical education in the Union Territory, besides opening new vistas for international collaborations between the institute and the multifarious centres of education on the one hand and industries of repute on the other, he said.

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