Orissa government mulls grading engineering colleges: Dharitri
September 12th, 2007
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Mostly job oriented programs at Fakirmohan University: Dharitri
New Indian Express also reports on this.
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Some numbers related to IIT Kharagpur : a reference point to NISER
Update on April 14, 2008: IIM Kozhikode has a faculty of 17 against the sanctioned strength of 40 members, IIM Calcutta has 70 against a sanctioned strength of 88; IIM Bangalore has 74 as against the sanctioned strength of 89.
Update on Oct 16, 2007: IIT Delhi has a sanctioned faculty of 583, with 130 vacancies.
Update on Oct 2, 2007: IIT Bombay has a faculty strength of 420, with 100 vacancies.
Frontline has a nice article on IIT Kharagpur. Following are some excerpts.
it has 19 departments, eight multidisciplinary centres and schools and 13 schools of excellence besides laboratories and central research facilities. It employs 1,600 employees, including 460 faculty members, and has 7,000 students on a sprawling, green campus of over 2,100 acres…
In comparison, according to various reports NISER (New Indian Express, Kalinga Times) would have 250 faculty, 2000 students, 761 employees and will be built in 300 acres with a project cost of 823.19 crores. Thus, in terms of faculty size and employee size it is envisaged to be about half the size of IIT Kharagpur.
Some information on IISER as was given in a recent PIB is as follows:
The Government of India has set up three Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), at Pune, Kolkata and Mohali. Two more IISERs are being set up at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram. These Institutes have been/are being set up on th3 recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM). The total estimated project cost of each IISER is Rs. 500.00 crores which includes Rs. 241.00 crores fro construction of building and other infrastructural facilities and Rs. 259.00 crores as recurring expenditure, spread over a period of 7 years.
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Admission announcement by TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences): ad in Samaja
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