Cuncolim NIT project faces rough weather
PTI, PANAJI | 21 August 2013 21:26 IST
NIT, Goa presently housed at Goa Engg College
The proposed National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Cuncolim village of Goa is facing a tough road ahead with the municipal council as well as locals opposing the project.
The opposition Congress has also urged that the locals should be taken into confidence before going ahead with the project.
The state government has acquired six lakh square metres of land for the proposed NIT campus at Cuncolim village, 50 kms away from Panaji.
However, Cuncolim Municipal Council (CMC) has adopted a resolution opposing setting it up there.
CMC Chairman Devendra Desai said that the NIT would be allowed only if there is reservation for the people of Cuncolim in the jobs created at the institute as well as in the seats for students.
The temporary campus of NIT had been set up way back in 2010 at Farmagudi village.
The NIT already offers 50 per cent reservation in seats to students from the state. Notwithstanding this reservation, Desai said that the reservation should be for the people of that village.
