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Please, NOT Kharagpur for IIT of Orissa
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, It is a welcome news that an IIT is going to be set up in Orissa. But the most astonishing and disturbing news that our students will go to IIT- Kharagpur this year due to lack of proper infrastructure. All concerned in our state should take up the issue immediately. An alternative or temporary accommodation to the proposed IIT in Orissa can be decided in a day ! Any good institution in Bhubaneswar ; or IGIT- in Sarang (Talcher ) ; or the now defunct Fertilizer Township in Talcher or any other suitable site can be finalised in the best interest of all concerned.Let us remind ourselves that no where in India or for that matter in World a proposed institute is set up in some other state before being established at a state. This very proposal goes against Orissa's interest. And have we all forgotten that the so called premier IIT- Kharagpur was actually granted to Orissa and due to resons best known to the then leaders went to Kharagpur.Before the whole country laughs at us, needful and practical steps be taken immediately to set up the temporary IIT campus in Orissa.
with thanks
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