National Institute of Design has been declared as Center of Excellence. A Bill in this regard is expected to be passed in the next session of Parliament, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry and Textile Anand Sharma said after laying the foundation stone of NID, at village Umri. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was also present on the occasion.
Sharma said Japan would provide technology assistance to bring NID, Kurukshetra at the International Map. Haryana has now become the first State in the Northern Region and second in the Country to have such an institute.
The first NID was set up at Ahmedabad in Gujarat in 1961. NID at Kurukshetra would be set up over an area of about 20 acres with an investment of Rs160 crore. The land for this institute has been provided free by the State Government.
This institute would provide world class design education and training to the professionals in the field of Animation, Film, Exhibition, Graphics, Product, Ceramic and Glass, life Style and Furniture and Interior Design. The concerned departments of the Ministry have been directed to complete all the relevant formalities so as to set up this institute in a record time.
Speaking on the occasion, Hooda said that NID being developed in Kurukshetra would be the only such institute of Northern India. The campus will provide education to 500 students of under-graduate and post-graduate programmes with a teaching faculty of about 100 and supporting technical staff of 150.
The Chief Minister said that during the last about eight years, inclusive development of all areas and welfare of every section of the society has been ensured. Separate polices have been prepared for the welfare of every section be it farmer, poor, labourer, scheduled castes, backward classes and imparting qualitative education to the children.
Hooda said National Institute of Fashion Technology will be set up at Panchkula, first Defence University of the country to be set up in Gurgaon and other prestigious institutes in the State. He said that a Nuclear Science Institute would come up in Bahadurgarh, the foundation stone of which would be laid by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh soon.