Govt constitutes Task force to find third private partner for IIIT




By Vikas Vaidya


The Higher and Technical Education Department of Maharashtra Government has constituted task force that would assess how the students’ response would be for Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Nagpur and Pune. The task force has to submit the report by January 16, 2016 to Central Government. The task force also search for third private partner for both IIITs. For Nagpur IIIT, Divisional Commissioner Anoop Kumar will lead Task Force with District Collector Sachin Kurvey, Joint Director of Technical Education G R Thakare will be the members.
Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) had taken decision to increase the number of IIITs in the country. Those should be set up through ‘Not for profit Public Private Partnership (N-PPP). Accordingly in Maharashtra it Nagpur and Pune became two destinations for IIIT.
As per the guidelines of Central Government, the partnership will be of Central Government (50%), State Government (35%) and Private Industry Partners (15%). It comes to Rs 64 crore, Rs 45 crore and Rs 20 crore respectively. Before signing Memorandum of Association (MoA) with private industry partners, Government expects full bank guarantee of 15% amount from industry partners to be done.
After the guarantee by partners MoA will be signed. This MoA will pave way to constitute Regulatory Board for IIIT. After collecting the fund it will be spend as per the need. Then the temporary building needs to be acquired. As per the admission service rules of National Institute of Technology, faculties are to be appointed. The IIIT has to submit the proposal regarding admission of students through JEE or other CET.
Since the IIIT is will start functioning from the academic year 2016-17, the assessment of students response need to be done. Secondly, like IIM, Government has to find a temporary place where classes for IIIT can begin. Since the bank guarantee of Rs 20 crore needs to be done by private industry partners and the present partners TCS and ADCC have expressed their inability to pay beyond Rs 5 crore, the third private industry partner also to be traced.  With the help of third partner the project may get full Rs 20 crore. The Task Force under the Chairmanship of Anoop Kumar would have to complete the above tasks and furnish the report by January 16, 2016.

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