Archive for June 17th, 2009

IIT-Hyderabad to design inter-disciplinary courses; Whats up with IIT Bhubaneswar?

Following is an excerpt from business standard

The new director of IIT-H, U B Desai, will encourage more interplay between various streams to give an edge to the students.

Speaking to Business Standard, he said IIT-H will encourage interdisciplinary courses to give an edge to the students. For example, it might set up a school of thermal sciences that would house electrical engineering and IT streams. There might also be a wing that would have a mix of biological sciences and information technology for a degree in bioinformatics.

Research will be a key focus area for IIT-H, Desai said, adding that about 35 M.Techs will be admitted this July. The institute also plans to admit about 10-15 PhDs. Last year, it admitted 11 research scholars. The research areas will span across computer science,  chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering streams. “Faculty research will be promoted in a big way,” said Desai.

Eventually, it would have 10 departments and about 5,000 students and about 500 faculty at all levels to maintain a 1:10 faculty to student ratio. It would also gradually offer MSc courses in pure sciences. The total budget for the IIT-H complete with all facilities, faculty and infrastructure is put at Rs 1,200 crore, to be spent in phases including building a new campus in about 523 acre at Kandi.

IT-H, meanwhile, also plans to connect with the local community and invite local schools and colleges for various events at the institute to promote a scientific temperament among students. It also plans to work with universities and higher education institutes in the state in areas of mutual interest. “It is a challenging task to develop a greenfield institute,” said Desai, adding that best practices of other IITs would be replicated here.

June 17th, 2009

Dharitri says that the Abhinna Chandra Homeopathy medical college in Bhubaneswar is to have AIIMS like facilities

Update: A tathya.in article says the following:

With setting up of an All India Institute of Homeopathic Science(AIIHS) in Orissa, Minister Health & Family Welfare is hoping to make this system of medicine will be more popular among the people. Mr.Achrya revealed here on 26 June that the State Government has posed for this institution to the Centre. Recently we have sent a proposal to the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH), revealed Mr.Achrya. AYUSH is setting up All India institutions of Ayurveda and Homeopathy in various parts of the country. Keeping this in view, Orissa has sent the proposal entailing an investment of Rs.60-70 crores for the institution, said the Minister.

Note that in January 2008 the cabinet took decision to establish an All India Institute of Aurveda in New Delhi. See also this report in Hindu and this report in thaiindian.


Dharitri below mentions that it is one of the 5 such institutions that have been picked.  On the other hand the site http://www.indianmedicine.nic.in/national-institute.asp lists the existing national institutes under the Department of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy). They are:

  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AYURVEDA (NIA) JAIPUR.
  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SIDDHA (NIS), CHENNAI
  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY, KOLKATA
  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NATUROPATHY, PUNE
  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF UNANI MEDICINE, BANGALORE
  • INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE TEACHING & RESEARCH IN AYURVEDA, JAMNAGAR (GUJARAT)
  • RASHTRIYA AYURVED VIDYAPEETH, NEW DELHI
  • Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, New Delhi

Following is the report from Dharitri.

June 17th, 2009


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