Archive for July 28th, 2007

Further updates on Orissa JEE counseling – seat availability

Earlier in this post we were tracking the Orissa JEE counseling of GEWO category. Now comes the big one the GE category which will also tell us which colleges are preferred by students.

Orissa JEE website has information on seat availability in various programs and various colleges updated daily based on what happens in counseling that day. Following are links in that site as of today. I have added the rank information based on the counseling schedule. Aspirants whose counseling is yet to happen may look at these links and get some idea on their chances.

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From the UGC pages – financial support links

With an eye to help Orissa universities take advantage of the opportunities provided by UGC we will dig through UGC pages and find out and highlight programs, opportunities and initiatives.

We start with the page “http://www.ugc.ac.in/financialsupport/guideline.html.” It has the following links:

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1000 hostels for Adivasi girls

Samaja reports on the progress towards the establishment of 1000 hostels of 100+ capacity each for Adivasi students.

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July 28th, 2007

Ravenshaw becomes eligible to get UGC funding

Devdas babu has done it! While universities like Fakir Mohan University, North Orissa University, BPUT and Utkal University of Culture are yet to get "funded by UGC" tag, Ravenshaw which was made a university on November 15 2006 has received UGC approval to get into the "funded by UGC tag." Mega kudos to Devdas Chhotray, the VC of Ravenshaw University, who made this possible within so short a time. Following is Sambada’s report on this.

The document has many details on what kind of funding UGC provides to state universities.

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Vikram Dev School of Art to be made a degree college

Daily Pioneer reports on this. Following are some excerpts.

The State Government is working on a proposal to upgrade the six-decade-old Vikram Dev School of Art and Craft at Jeypore as a degree college from the current academic session. From now on, the school will be known as Vikram Dev College of Art and Craft, sources in the Culture Department said…

Culture Secretary Gopinath Mohanty set up a committee comprising Orissa Lalit Kala Akadami secretary Chandramani Biwal, Utkal University of Culture’s officer on special duty Bhawani Charan Biswal and BK College of Art and Craft (BKAC) principal AC Sahoo, to have an on-the-spot assessment of the situation. …

It has recommended introduction of Bachelor’s Degree programme in visual art under the Utkal University of Culture from the current academic year.

The students, who pass out of the institution, would be directly admitted to degree courses while those who were intermediates would be considered for admission after an aptitude test, the committee has observed.

… the students of the Vikram Dev College should be provided stipend, it has suggested.

The committee has advised the faculty members of the institution to run Government-affiliated Sunday Art Schools at Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur and Jeypore immediately to prepare the students of the KBK region for admission in the institution.

It has also recommended posting of an experienced lecturer of the Government College of Art and Craft of Khallikote as the principal of the proposed degree college to look after teaching and administration in an effective manner. …

The abandoned office of the Irrigation Department in Jeypore town could be allotted to the institution till a permanent campus comes up, the committee has stated.

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Medical fees in private medical colleges reduced by Rs 50,000

The committee has reduced the fees from its earlier recommendation of Rs 450,000 to Rs 400,000. Following is Dharitri’s report on this.

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