mangaluru national institute of technology surathkal karnataka nitk has proposed to take up five projects at its srinivasnagar campus this year k n lokesh director incharge nitk surathkal said the project includes proposal to construct new buildings for school of management and school of interdisciplinary studies in addition to this the institute has proposed additional faculty departments of type v and vi and additional nonfaculty departments of type iii and iv the institute has also planned to construct a park for children all these new projects are subjected to take wings with the availability of funds from government added lokeshapart from it a pilot project is being worked out for using treated water from two of the three sewage treatment plants stps working in the campus for secondary use in hostel blocks academic buildings and gardening purpose nitk surathkal presently uses treated water from one of the three stps for secondary use in the mega hostelto make the existing buildings user friendly for persons with disabilities passenger elevators are being provided in phases at present elevators are being provided to health care centre and central computer centrecurrently as many as 11 buildings are under construction on the institute campus through the central public works department the major ongoing projects includes construction of new boys hostel building of 500 single occupancy rooms taken up at a cost of rs 51 crore construction of new building for department of computer science and engineering rs 33 crore new sports complex rs 34 crore construction of new faculty apartments rs 38 crore and vertical extension of new mechanical engineering block rs 23 crore