New ₹37 cr modern academic building to come up at MNNIT

PRAYAGRAJ : State’s lone NIT— Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT)-Allahabad— will soon get a brand new modern academic building embellished with all the latest amenities soon.

The building would be constructed at a cost of ₹37 crores. The Union Ministry of Education has sanctioned the budget for the building to the institute, informed MNNIT director, Prof Rajeev Tripathi.

He said that the institute has in turn now entrusted the construction responsibility to Central Public Works Department (CPWD), the central agency which has earlier too taken up vital construction work on its campus. This three-floor building (ground floor + two floors) will be built near the existing library of the institute. Besides a library, toilets and power backup, the building will have high-tech conference rooms and labs with state-of-the-art equipment, Tripathi said.

As soon as the building is completed, some departments, such as humanities and social sciences, mathematics, and electronics and communication engineering, could move into it, and others facing space crunch could be given space on vacated sites, said Tripathi.

It may be noted that in 2019, the Central government had directed the implementation of a 10 per cent economically weaker section quota in educational institutions. Under this, 25 per cent of seats were increased in institutions including at MNNIT.

The new building is being constructed to alleviate the shortage of space and resources caused by the gradual increase of seats in the institute under the EWS quota. After increasing the seats, the need to increase the infrastructure was being intensely felt. With the increase in the number of students, it had become imperative to increase the infrastructure too accordingly, the director explained.

Prof Tripathi said that a detailed proposal was prepared and sent to the union ministry of education for approval and sanction of the requisite funds. Now the funds worth ₹37 crores have been sanctioned for it and the institute has accordingly entrusted the task of construction of this new building to CPWD which would soon kickstart the construction on the selected site in the campus.