BANGALORE: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Dharwad is expected to switch its functioning to a temporary campus the following academic year. To begin with, a total of 120 students in civil, electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering streams will be admitted, reports TOI.

 As per the content of director of IITs, Tripti Gurha’s letter to the Karnataka government, until the construction of a permanent campus is made, The IIT campus will function in the Water & Land Management Institute (WALMI) which is situated neighboring the Karnataka High Court Bench of the Pune-Bengaluru Highway.

 Gruha has put forward two propositions, the first pertaining to the states renovation of the buildings and quarters at WALMI for which the HRD ministry is ready to shoulder the cost. The second being that the wall should be built approximately around 507-acre land of Mummigatti and Kelageri villages and then entrusted over to the  union HRD ministry .

BJP MLA Aravind Bellad quoted R Subrahmanyam, additional secretary (technical education), union department of higher education, saying that the Centre aims at making the IIT functional from 2016-17.

Senior IAS officer P Manivannan who administers the construction at the Dharwad district had expressed his approval on IIT’s functioning at the WALMI premises.  Apart from the demonstration farm which has majority of its part unutilized, the 135-acre campus holds faculty, administrative and residential buildings.

Bellad stated that WALMI is utilizing only 2 pct of the campus as the classrooms along with the hostel in the 50,000 sqft building facilitates only 200 students who are available. "It needs some renovation, which can be completed within three months,'' he said.

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