kolkata it was lauded as the best in business and deemed west bengal chef minister buddhadeb bhattacharjees brainchild in the left fronts election manifesto of 2001 but more than a year after bhattacharjee took over the state government run indian institute of information technologyiiit at salt lake in kolkata has neither its promised sprawling campus nor adequate teachers and most importantly no recognition from either the aicte nor affiliation from any university speaking to tnn on thursday minister for technical education md salim said students had approached him on the issue and admitted that things were far from rosy in the institute but the government is committed to solve the crisis iitc is ours and we will do whatever we can to make it the best he said salim said he would visit the campus on friday to specially meet the students and hear their problems when told about students allegations that authorities at iiitc were threatening students with expulsion if they dared to complain to the minister salim said i have heard this too i will look into it students of the college however are not satisfied when the first batch of students took admission in early 2000 the prospectus promised a sprawling 10 acre campus we were also shown photographs of an excellent library stacked with books and cds and told we would have some 200 computers the advertisement which was published in several newspapers also promised deemed university status in a years time faculty members from the iits of india would join in we were told said a senior student none of the promises have materialised yet even the new building that director of technical education rc bhattacharya told us had started on in basanti highway never came up he said students allege that instead of solving problems the government in 2001 announced plans to open four extension centres of the institute all over the city and called 800 students for counselling pandemonium ensued during counselling for admission when the government had to back away from their promise of taking in these students the image of our institute was tarnished with almost all national newspapers reporting the embarrassing events many of our mates have left the institute in despair and disgust the student said even iiit hyderabad is chadrababu naidus brainchild the cm there visits the institute at regular intervals buddhadab babu is yet to visit us even once he said