Shillong set to get NIT

Centre has agreed to set up a National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Shillong provided land is allotted by the government for the purpose.The Meghalaya capital already has a medical college and an Indian Institute of Management.A meeting was held in Delhi between the ministry of human resource development and the secretaries and commissioners of different states and Union Territories to discuss the seat allotment at NITs in the country in 2008.according to the policy of reservation of seats in technical institutions for states lacking in such facilities, the Centre had agreed to allot mores seats to affected states.