So, they used teargas and mock bombs to disperse crowds who came out to block the field survey for the land acquisition for the construction of National Institute of Technology.
The news came out in all the three eveningers of Imphal.
They want to acquire around 100 acres of land for the campus of National Institute of Technology. The Chief Minister seems to be very enthusiastic about the project.
But what is National Institute of Technology? May be, poor man’s IIT!
All the 100 acres are producing paddy right now. So, the persons who are tiling the lands are not prepared to part away with them. That’s the proverbial links of the farmers with their lands.
But the Chief Minister himself seems to have a grand design of the whole project. The proposed site is just across a street from the present Manipur University. If the new Institute is constructed, it would form a single campus with the present MU, which would be grand, at least, in Chief Minister’s vision.
He is strongly pushing for the digging up of a historical moat, which runs from Kakwa to the present proposed site of the Institute. It is known as Leisaang Hiden. I think it is something to do with the old capital complex near the Manipur University campus. Royals always seem to like themselves encircled with deep moats!
If he can reconstruct the whole length of the moat and build the Institute, they would form, together with the present MU, at least a grand landscape!
Update: They are looking for 30 acres of land, not 100 acres, as was mentioned in my post. In a related development, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Lamphelpat is all ready to be upgraded to AIMS-type institute but the only constraint is the lack of land. They have not been able to acquire the land required for the proposed expansion.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
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