NIT stutus for RIT, Jamshedpur?

Telegraph: September 25, 2002
RIT knocks on Marandi door

KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Sept. 24: After failing to convince the inspector-general of registration Narendra Bhagat of registering the Regional Institute of Technology (RIT) as a National Institute of Technology (NIT) under the Registration and Society Act, college authorities have resolved to woo chief minister Babulal Marandi for the purpose.
A four-member team of the RIT is scheduled to meet the chief minister at Ranchi on the afternoon of September 26. The principal, RIT, Akhileswar Mishra, who will lead the team told The Telegraph that they would convince the chief minister on the benefits of NIT status and how that would turn out to be an asset for the state.
“We have decided to meet the chief minister as the IG, registration did not forward our application. Chief minister Babulal Marandi holds the portfolio for finalising the registration so we are approaching him,” said the principal. The principal also said the chief minister is already aware of RIT’s problems and it’s the NIT status. “The RIT Teachers’ Association’s office-bearers during their month-long agitation in March this year had even met the chief minister to brief him of the bottlenecks in the way of getting the NIT status. But we thought it better to make the chief minister aware of the problem once again,” said Mishra.
Expressing hope, the principal said that the chief minister would definitely take a positive stand so that the problem is solved at the earliest. “The chief minister is a dynamic personality and he would definitely see that the problem is solved at the earliest,” said the principal.
Significantly, the state science and technology minister Samresh Singh had, in a letter written to the IG, registration, Narendra Bhagat, last month, urged him not to grant a NIT registration status to the college. In his letter, he had pointed out that “sons of the soil” would stand to loose if RIT gets a NIT status.
The registration issue is the only stumbling block in the way of the RIT getting NIT status. For registration purposes the RIT authorities have made all necessary formalities and have also got the consent of ministry of human resources development. RIT’0s registrar S. Azmat Hussain had in July filed an application with the IG Registration’s office after getting a NIT registration with the Seraikela court. But it was useless.