"We request Hon. Chief Minister Shri. Siddaramaiah and Hon. Minister Shri. R V Deshpande to consider IIT for Dharwad District."

Dharwad district has the following merits to support the claims mentioned here.

· Dharwad is the most suitable location with wonderful climatic conditions all round the year.

· It has very good connectivity infrastructure like Airport, Rail and Road.

· It has been an established educational hub, with well known Institutes like KIMS (Govt. Medical college), BVB College of Engineering (Estd.1947)along with host of KLE Society colleges, SDM Group of College in Engineering, Medical and Dental Programs.

· It comes under Bangalore - Mumbai industrial corridor.

· It is geographically located equidistance from IIT, Mumbai, IIT, Chennai and shall be good for Karnataka students technological aspirations.

· KIADB has huge tract of land here