The new sprawling campus of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur coming up near Rakhi Bhananga village on the old Dhamtari road will be equipped with state-of-the-art amenities. The massive campus planned to be built over an area of 209 acres by spending Rs1,007 crore will be a multi-purpose campus with residential facilities for students and college faculties.
The new campus proposed to set up about 32 km away from Raipur would provide an academic Eden for engineering students, said Dean Planning RK Tirpathi talking with
The Pioneer. He said that the new campus once completed will be home for about 5,000 students where cutting edge technologies will be available for the students. However due to delay in the budget allocation the construction work is yet to start, he said and added that after the required budget is allocated the project will take 5 years to complete.
Detailing about the campus Tripathi said the campus will be divided in four zones. First residential zone will contain boys’ hostel, girls’ hostel, warden quarters and Sports zone. Second institutional zone will have guest house dormitory, cafeteria, auditorium, central library. Third zone shall have academic departments, project centre, research centre, future development lecture hall. The fourth zone will constitutes of health care centre, shopping complex, under-ground water tank, canteen block and studio apartment. The entire campus will be equipped with WiFi. The buildings in campus will also have lift facilities, Tirpathi added.