Archive for April 8th, 2007
Dear Sir,
Its a great pleasure to learn about ur interest on OSME. The college has become a constituent college of BPUT. Govt. have sanctioned 5 crores & alloted 37 Ac land. The bldg. construction work is likely to start during April 2007 by IDCO. Possibly the Inst. will run in the new campus from 2008 session & new branches of Engg.i.e. Electronics, Comp. Sc.& Mineral Processing will be introduced.
The Inst. will run in a Self-Financing mode as per present planning. Govt. is commited to provide 50 Crores for the project. There are some initial administrative problems but hopefully everything will be settled shortly. It probably needs some more serious Govt. attention to bring it to the shape it was visualised. I’m optimistic.
I shall always be in touch with you Sir & seek ur valuable suggestions/guidelines as apart of the project, in making it a Centre of Excellence for Mining & Mineral Processing Engg.
Thank you once again. With kind regards.
April 8th, 2007
Dear all: Following is a letter that I have sent to the Chief minister. I would urge others to send a similar letter to cmo@ori.nic.in .
Thanks
Chitta
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Dear Chief minister:
I recently read that Bokaro steel plant (a unit of SAIL) has agreed with Jharkhand Government to set up an engineering college and medical college in Bokaro.
(See http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070226/asp/jamshedpur/story_7441681.asp)
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The news report mentions that the TATAs, Mittal and POSCO are planning to put huge sums of money in the “Corporate Social Responsibility” fund. We suggest that the Orissa government start a formal policy of “From mineral resources to Human resources” and require that any company using Orissa minerals should contribute to the HRD develpment of Orissa. Depending on the size of the minerals used by the company the contribution could be of the form of making a medical college, an engineering college, several ITIs, science and technology magnet schools etc.
This policy should not be only for new companies or private companies, this should be also applicable for public sector companies and companies that are already in Orissa.
In this regard it has been reported that Bokaro Steel plant (part of SAIL) will be opening a medical school as well as an engineering college in Jharkhand. Why is Rourkela Steel Plant (also part of SAIL) not doing the same in Orissa? Why is Orissa government not approaching them about it. The Orissa government should also approach other public sectors such as NALCO, MCL (Mahanadi Coal Fields), and NTPC as well as its own OMC (Orissa mining corporation). These biggies should open a medical college each near their operational area and not in Bhubaneswar.
We must write to Orissa CM about this. I will come up with a draft letter in a few days.
April 8th, 2007
After a long time and with the Orissa financial situation improving the government of Orissa has lifted the ban on hiring regular faculty in Orissa Universities. For a long time, universities could not hire regular faculty and were hiring faculty on short-term contracts. This had resulted in the lack of quality faculty in the universities and as a result the Orissa universities suffered a lot. The lifting of this ban is an welcome step.
This news is reported in various newspapers. (Sambada, New indian Express)
In the first phase the Orissa government has sanctioned hiring of 70 regular faculty at the four universities of Sambalpur University (47 positions), Sri Jagannath Sanskrit University (4 positions), North Orissa University (Baripada-13 positions) and Fakirmohan University (6 positions). The 6 positions in Fakirmohan University is to start a new program in Applied Physics and Ballistics in collaboration with DRDO. 12 of the positions in the North Orissa University are for 3 newly introduced self-financing courses in biotechnology, business administration and computer science. 1 position in the North Orissa University is for a new department in tribal studies.
April 8th, 2007
The Orissa government has decided to make capital hospital (location) a full-fledged medical college. This is reported in various media outlets. (Kalinga Times, New Indian Express,Samaja1,Samaja2) The government is also planning to open another medical college in Rourkela or in the Mayurbhanj district. For the medical college in Bhubaneswar, the government plans an outlay of 100 crores with an immediate outlay of 25 crores. It is also reported that there is some plans to start PG classes in the Unit IV hospital of Bhubaneswar.With these developments Bhubaneswar-Cuttack area the medical college situation in Bhuabaneswar-CTC-Puri area will be as follows:
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