The faculties and students of department of Civil Engineering had organized an industrial visit to “Nirmithi Kendra” in Mysuru for the students of 5th semester civil BTech on the 4th of July 2015. The Department coordinator Prof. Raghunandan Kumar lead the team along with the department faculty members Dr. Nabil, Prof. Kavitha, Prof. Preethi and Prof. Pavan Kaushik.
The Director of Mysuru Nirmithi Kendra, Mr. M T Manjunath had made the necessary arrangement at the Kendra for the team’s visit.   The students were shown around the Kendra where several low cost construction activities were happening and also some of the latest technologies in low cost construction were on display by way of life size models. Students were all very curious and asking many questions to the guides in regards to the construction techniques and technologies that were on display at the site.  
Nirmithi Kendra is a government initiative to promote low cost housing and is located in several places in Karnataka and Kerala. Nirmithi Kendra usually undertakes government projects and low cost construction techniques are implemented to execute these projects.