AGARTALA, August 24 (TIWN): In view of getting open Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) for the first ever in the northeastern states of land-locked Tripura the state’s Left front government had pushed the centre to call for a private investments. Once the Rs. 128 crore project is opened it will be the first such institute in the northeast.“We have urged the centre and its Ministry to call for private investments from the ONGC, NBCC and NEEPCO to open IIIT in Tripura,” said State Higher Education Minister Tapan Chakroborty after meeting with the Union Minister for Human resource Development (HRD) Smriti Irani at Delhi.Saying that the ONGC, NEEPCO and NBCC is doing a good work for Tripura Chakroborty pointed out that as all the three companies are centre owned they can invest for the IIIT in Tripura once the government pushes them.He said that the then MHRD during the year 2012 had approved the Rs. 128 crore project work to open IIIT in Tripura following which the government had allotted 50 acres of land for the institute immediately.The major objective in establishing IIITs is to set up a model of education which can produce best-in-class human resources in IT and harness the multi-dimensional facets of IT in various domains.

“But, despite several persuasions by the government the centre had not taken any further steps  so far in this regard,” adding Chakroborty told reporters that even the government had also handed over a memorandum with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit in state.

“We have been demanding for the IIIT from a long time but the government remained backtracked from it whereas this is the Tripura government which had immediately given a land to the centre for opening the IIIT,” said Chakroborty.

This will greatly boost up our infrastructure for higher education based on two medical colleges , one engineering college, NIT, nursing , paramedical and pharmaceutical and law college and other institutions of general education said Tapan Chakraborty.