NIT Sikkim’s permanent campus likely to be ready by 2024, says MoS Education

Since its inception in 2010, NIT Sikkim has been functioning from a temporary campus at Ravangla. 

The permanent campus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim is likely to be ready in three years with the construction work set to begin soon, Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar announced. 

Since its inception in 2010, NIT Sikkim has been functioning from a temporary campus at Ravangla. Sarkar said construction of the second phase of the Sikkim Central University’s campus at Yangyang in South Sikkim will also be completed within the next two-and-half years. 

“I am happy that the Sikkim government has provided a good quality land, measuring about 100 acres at Khamdong, East Sikkim, for building the NIT campus. The construction work is likely to start very soon after the completion of all formalities. A total of INR 500 crore has been set aside for this,” he said. 

“While 90 acres of land has already been acquired, the remaining 10 acres is expected to be acquired soon,” Sarkar said. 

He further said, “Another good news is that the first phase of Sikkim University campus at Yangyang in South Sikkim has already been completed at the cost of INR 98 crore and Expression of Interest for the second phase for INR 300 crore has been published. We hope to complete the construction within the next two-and-half years and shift the campus there.” 

“To get the out-of-school children (OoSC) back, a curriculum for the elementary level has been designed and the enrolment of these 15 to 18-year-old OoSC children in NIOS is underway,” he added. He said this while addressing a national conference on ‘NEP 2020: Towards India-Centred Holistic Inclusive Quality School Education’. The conference was organised by the Board of Open Schooling and Skill Education, Sikkim, an open school board to cater for 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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