IIT slips away from Raichur’s reach

RAICHUR: There is sad news for the people of Raichur, who have waged a protracted battle for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology in the district. It is clear now that the City is not going to get the premier institute and instead it will be established at Dharwad as approved by the Centre.

This became evident from the refusal of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to lead a delegation to the Prime Minister to urge him to sanction IIT for Raichur and the failure of the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Jagadish Shettar to attend a tripartite meeting convened here It may be mentioned that two weeks after Dharwad got the Centre's nod as the location for Karnataka's first IIT, CM Siddaramaiah had written a letter to the Union ministry for human resource development (HRD) on September 20 to reconsider its decision and locate the premier technology institute in Raichur as Dharwad has already been sanctioned an Indian Institute for Information Technology.

At a meeting with the representatives of IIT Manjoorati Horata Samiti, Mr Siddaramaiah was said to have declined to lead an all party delegation to the PM stating that the latter had not shown a good response to the State’s plea for Centre’s intervention in the Kalasa-Banduri Nala project. “In this case also we may not get good response from the Prime Minister”, the Chief Minister was understood to have told the Samiti leaders at the meeting.

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