JAMMU: Opposition National Conference (NC) and Congress today staged a walkout from Legislative Council over the Government’s alleged failure to ensure grant of an IIT to Kashmir after passage of a resolution in the upper house.
Replying to a question of NC MLC Showkat Hussain Ganai, minister of state (MoS) for Education Priya Sethi told the House that establishment of national-level institutions like IIT, IIM and NIT in different states was prerogative of the Government of India (GoI).
She said the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) has sanctioned an NIT in Srinagar and an IIT and an IIM in Jammu. “The out campus of the IIT Jammu has been sanctioned for Kashmir division”, She said. (AGENCIES)
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