Archive for March, 2007
It seems progress is being made in this regard. A prominent leader in one of the top IT company of India is in charge of identifying a Dean for the IT/Computer Science program. I am told that T. N. Sheshan again visited Orissa last week regarding starting the university in August 2007. They are planning to have programs in medicine, sciences, and IT/Computer science, among other topics. The grapevine strongly suggests that the land overlooking Kathjodi near the origin of Kathajodi will be given to this university rather than NISER and NISER is being shown alternative land between Khurda and Jatni.
March 13th, 2007
NIT Rourkela has decided to start the following departments/schools/centers.
- Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering
- B. Tech. (Biotechnology), B. Tech (Biomedical Engg), M. Tech. (Biotechnology), M. Tech (Biomedical Engg), M. Tech.(R ), Ph.D.
- Department of Life Sciences
- M.Sc., M.Tech. ( R) , Ph.D.
- Department of Industrial Design
- B. Des, M. Des., M. Des.(R ), Ph.D.
- School of Management
- MBA/MBM/MMS, PGDMS, PH D, Executive Development Programmes
- Centre of Tribal Development
Admission to all programmes of the department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering will start in the Academic Year 2007-08 and to the other Departments by Academic Year 2008-09.
This is a great move. I hope they will team up with RSP hospital and/or Rourkela General hospital to start a medical school.
(Thanks to Sandip babu for this news.)
March 5th, 2007
An IANS story with the above title has been picked by many papers including Times of India, Hindustan Times and New Indian Express. It talks about the green field IIT alloted to Andhra and the upgradation of Andhra University College of Engineering and Osmania University College of Engineering to IIT like institutions (IIESTs). It also talks about how Orissa was unlucky in neither getting a greefield IIT nor a branch campus of IIT Kharagpur. With the wide coverage this article has received I hope people all over India become aware of the divisive, partisan and discriminatory practices of the HRD ministry. I hope the UPA and its cabinet will realize the follies of their HRD minister and urge him to change course and not blatantly discriminate against Orissa.
Following are some links where the article of the above title appeared:
Continue Reading March 5th, 2007
Recently we at Agamee Odisha had two rounds of preparatory meetings (on 26th and 28th Feb) on IIT- movement, of intellectuals, students, professionals, activists and Representatives of mass organisations, net work organisations, NGOs etc. These two meetings were well attended and one of the remarkable features of the meetings was that many important dignitaries attended the meetings and conveyed their solidarity to the movement for IIT in Orissa. In these two meetings the agenda of the first phase of movement has been finalised
which are as below-
Continue Reading March 1st, 2007
Today’s New Indian Express reports that director serach for IIIT Bhubaneswar is going on in full swing. The search committee consists of Dr. Sadagopan from IIIT Bangalore, Mr. Subroto Bagchi of Mindtree, Dr. Ramani from HP labs and Mr. Vishal Dev, Director OCAC. The report also says that the project cost will be Rs 45 crores out of which state government has budgeted 10 crores and the remaining is to be raised from private companies.
March 1st, 2007
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