A ring road will come up around National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Adityapur, some 6km from Jamshedpur, to protect the campus from outsiders who use its road and disturb its academic ambience.

Once the road is ready for use, commuters from Asangi, a semi-urban area near NIT, won't need to enter the artery on the sprawling campus to reach Adityapur, which is a daily occurrence at present.

Asangi residents will have their own road to reach Adityapur, but after taking a 2km detour.

Confirming the development, NIT spokesperson Deepak Chourasia said that demarcation work for the ring road had been completed. "We have submitted a report in this regard to Seraikela-Kharsawan administration. Tenders will be floated soon," Chourasia told The Telegraph.

Central public works department will build the road, with streetlights and a drainage system. Details like deadline, road length, among others, will be discussed at a meeting next week.

Chourasia said some makeshift stalls and shops had come up around the campus that would need to be removed to pave way for the road.

"We have already identified encroachments and also intimated the local administration about them," he added.

A separate road for residents outside the campus gets imperative with the number of students increasing in NIT from the new academic session, starting August.

From this session, NIT will host the first batch of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT). The first batch of IIIT will comprise 39 seats allotted by Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) in computer science engineering (CSE) and electronics and communications engineering (ECE).

This apart, around 570 students have taken admission to various branches of BTech.

"We are, therefore, serious about the ring road project as we do not want disturbance in the academic ambience of the institute," said an official of NIT admissions department.

A five-member land demarcation panel of the institute would meet next week to review the project. The actual length of the ring road would be finalised then. This apart, the land demarcation panel will also discuss construction of the boundary wall, the lack of which was a security concern for the tech college ever since it was set up as a Regional Institute of Technology in 1960. The wall will also be built by the central public works department.

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