Sikkim: NIT permanent campus to be ready by 2024: MoS Education

GANGTOK: Union Minister of State for Education, Subhas Sarkar, assured that National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim's permanent campus would be ready within the next three years with construction set to begin soon.

The institute has been functioning from a temporary campus at Ravangla since its inception in 2010. The minister also announced that the second phase of construction of the Sikkim Central University's campus at Yangang, South Sikkim, will also be completed in the next two and a half years.

This year marked the 14th Foundation Day of the Central University of Sikkim. In the wake of Sikkim carrying on with the implementation of the new National Education Policy (NEP), Sarkar said that the restructuring of standalone colleges for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary courses has started.

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Sarkar was attending a national conference on 'NEP 2020: Towards India-Centred Holistic Inclusive Quality School Education'.

The conference was conducted by the Board of Open Schooling and Skill Education, Sikkim, an open school board to cater to the varied academic needs of the divergent group of students up to pre-degree level, including secondary, senior secondary and skill and vocational education.

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