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		<title>Jharkhand proactive with its public sectors for medical colleges; Odisha should learn from it</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/4022</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anugul-Talcher-Dhenkanal area (7)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From mineral resources to human resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koraput-Jeypore-Sunabeda area (5)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning from others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical, nursing and pharmacy colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rourkela-Rajgangpur area (2)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Thanks to http://www.rourkelacity.com/rdf/showthread.php?p=41#post41 for the pointer.) Following is an excerpt from a report in Ranchi Express.

State Health Minister Baithnath Ram on Monday informed the Assembly that  approval letters have been sent to HEC, Ranchi and SAIL, Bokaro to  start medical colleges at Ranchi and Bokaro respectively. About 250  students will be admitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Odisha budget has 32.5 crores for adding a medical college to Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/4008</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri- Khurda area (1)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital Medical College, Bhubaneswar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[See http://www.orissalinks.com/orissagrowth/archives/3365; in particular http://www.orissalinks.com/orissagrowth/wp-content/uploads/image/20100315%20budget.JPG. The later shows that the 2010 budget has 32.5 crores for making the building and the foundation for the proposed medical college associated with the Capital Hospital. This was proposed and announced several years back. Good to see this in the budget. This is a good and inexpensive way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IISERs will have their own aptitute test on July 18 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/4003</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri- Khurda area (1)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Five yr integrated MSc programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IITs, IISc, IISERs, NISER, IIMs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KVPY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NISER NEST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NISER, Bhubaneswar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Thanks to the Suryanarayanan&#8217;s comment number 147 in http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/285).
The IISER admission site at http://www.iiser-admissions.in/ says that there will be three ways to get admission in the IISERs: (i) KVPY (ii) IIT JEE and (iii) Direct.
But by &#34;Direct&#34; they mean through an aptitude test that will be held on July 18 2010. They say:&#160;

Direct Admission is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New dynamic VCs lead the Sambalpur region towards a knowledge hub</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3999</link>
		<comments>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3999#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CIFT, Burla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM College, Sambalpur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IIHT, Baragarh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orissa Higher Education Vision 2020]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sambalpur University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sambaplpur-Burla-Jharsuguda-Baragarh area (4)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCE Burla (became a university)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upgrading UCE Burla to IIT level]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VSS Medical College, Burla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VSS Medical University, Burla (mentioned)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VSS University of Technology (formerly UCE Burla)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[XIM Bhubaneswar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UCE Burla becoming VSSUT and the hiring of dynamic vice Chancellors at VSSUT (Prof. D K Tripathy from IIT Kharagpur) as well as at Sambalpur University (Prof. Arun Pujari from the University of Hyderabad) has given a huge momentum in making the Sambalpur area a knowledge hub and together with similar progress at Rourkela a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education issues debated in Odisha Assembly: Naming of National/innovation University; Government taking over of the medical college in Kalahandi</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3995</link>
		<comments>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3995#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bhawanipatna-Kesinga-Lanjigarh (8)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri- Khurda area (1)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation Universities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National University Bhubaneswar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sardar Raja Medical College, Jaring, Kalahandi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tathya.in reports that this time nice debates are going on in the Odisha assembly.Following are some Samaja reports on debates relevant to education.



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		<title>DST funded Innovative Summer program in Science for +2 students at Sambalpur University</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3991</link>
		<comments>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3991#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central Universities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sambalpur University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sambaplpur-Burla-Jharsuguda-Baragarh area (4)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer camps]]></category>

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Kudos to the people at Sambalpur University (The VC and the others) for organizing this program. After this they should pursue the establishment of a UM-DAE CBS (Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences) type of institute associated with Sambalpur University. The current VC has the vision and ability to make it happen. Note that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rourkelacity.com: CM favorable towards ESIC Medical College in Rourkela</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3984</link>
		<comments>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3984#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESI Medical College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESI Medical Colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rourkela-Rajgangpur area (2)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt from http://www.rourkelacity.com/top-news/naveen-patnaik-assured-and-indicates-green-signal-for-esic-medical-college-at-rourkela/.

Today under the leadership of Dr. Prafulla Majhi ( MLA , Talsara Constituency, Sundargarh ) about 6 MLAs from Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar met the Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik and appraised him about the discontent among the civil society and people at Rourkela and Sundargarh on the on going issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIFT Bhubaneswar to cost 58.65 crore</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3981</link>
		<comments>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3981#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri- Khurda area (1)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIFT, Bhubaneswar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt from http://www.bharattextile.com/newsitems/2010539.

Ministry of Textiles has received a proposal from the State Government of Orissa for establishment of a NIFT Centre at Bhubaneswar. State Government has also conveyed its commitment for providing land free of cost and funds for creating necessary infrastructure. The approximate cost of establishing NIFT centre would be Rs.58.65 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSIR center to come up in Koraput via the CSIR-800 Programme</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3976</link>
		<comments>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3976#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CSIR Labs & Institutes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koraput-Jeypore-Sunabeda area (5)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt from a report in expressbuzz.com.

Koraput will soon be connected to the nationwide network of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratories as it is chosen as an extension centre to have a pool of master trainers to train grassroots-level people in applied technologies in various fields.
The extension centre would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odisha should learn from Andhra Pradesh on how to go about creating knowledge hubs</title>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3972</link>
		<comments>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3972#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chitta Baral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational and Knowledge clusters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning from others]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard.

&#8230; Reddy mooted a proposal to IIM-A and IIM-B in 2008, requesting them to set up an &#8220;extended campus&#8221; in the state. IIM-A is learnt to have been offered nearly 150 acres at a nominal cost and a Rs 100-crore interest-free loan.
&#8230; Meanwhile, the Bangalore-located Indian [...]]]></description>
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