NIT has two sketch maps, one of which has the signatures of officers from their various offices and measures 352 acres of land...
Digital Desk: Arunachal Pradesh's National Institute of Technology, which was built for Rs 1200 crore, is said to have been the subject of a significant fraud. According to a PIL filed with the High Court, 200 of the 301 acres of land that were given for the institution's development are allegedly missing.
In response to the "missing" of more than 200 acres of land allocated to the NIT, Arunachal Pradesh at Jote, social activist Payi Gyadi filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Guahati High Court, Itanagar Permanent Bench. She asked for the court's intervention so that the state government could reclaim the land and properly identify it.
At a news conference on the matter, the social activist claimed that neither the State administration nor the Union government gave a meaningful response when informed about the problem of land grabbing and land disappearance. "According to the records in our possession, 301 acres of land were allocated for the construction of NIT. However, only 133 acres of the original land remain now," claimed social activist Payi Gyadi.
Reportedly, NIT has two sketch maps, one of which has the signatures of officers from their various offices and measures 352 acres of land, and the other which measures 301 acres of land and "needs to be clarified in court," states Payi.
According to him, the NIT-AP administration has been writing to the Papum Pare DC to request the correct demarcation of its boundaries, but so far there hasn't been an answer. He said that on January 23, 2012, "former Director of NIT-AP Prof (Dr) C T Bhunia informed the land shortage detected as per the notification issued by the DC."
The social activist added that the Executive Engineer, of PWD Doimukh Division, had been given the work order to demarcate a border with a pillar at the permanent location of NIT-AP, but due to a lack of land, the project had been postponed.
Gyadi added that the NIT-AP is operating without several essential utilities as a result of the lack of land.
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