The African Union (AU) ha set aside close to TSh529 million (USD 334701.97) to compensate the Tanzania Plantation Limited former 753-hectare piece in Karangai area to pave way for the second phase of the construction of Nelson Mandela Institute of Science and Technology.
The institute has been given some 3,285 acres at Karangai around Arusha, to construct a much bigger campus. The campus has in its possession 2,502 acres with full title even as more 732 acres are getting processed.
Now the Tanzania government has committed some US$60 million to the expansion project even as the institute enjoys massive support from the United States, South Korea, Canada and some European countries. The institute recently received US$1.5 million grant from India for its ICT Resource Centre.
Tanzania Plantation Limited has agreed to release the land for the state-of-the-art pan-African institute of technology expansion.
Frolence Turuka permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology, said the government is in the final stages of getting the land as the money for compensating the owner has now been allocated.
Briefing members of the parliamentary Finance committee recently, Turuka said: “Everything is going on well and very soon the institute will acquire the land and put up the required structures to accomplish its intended mission.”
The Pan-African institute was set up to increase the number of experts in different fields of technology in the country and the region.
The African Union (AU) helped in establishing the institute.
