Patna, (Bihar Times): Indecision by the Bihar government is causing delay in the finalization of site for the Indian Institute of Technology in the state.

It needs to be mentioned that the state government had finalized Bihta, a small township west to Patna as the site. But when the Central team came to inspect the area, it found that the place has a water-logging problem.

According to reports the state government was then asked to explain how it would deal with the problem. Four months have passed since then but the Union human resources development ministry is yet to hear from the Bihar government.

Apart from Bihar, an IIT is going to be opened in Medak in Andhra Pradesh while the site for Rajasthan has also not been finalized. While the state chief minister, Vasundhraraje  Scindia, want it to be opened in Kota the Central team which went to Rajasthan received strong representations in favour of Udaipur, Ajmer and Jodhpur.

With two states still to take any decision, the HRD ministry has sought clearance of the Expenditure Finance Committee for the IITs, a necessary step before the project gets moving.