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Establishment of Centre of Excellence in Polymer Technology: PIB

Following is from http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=70461.

The scheme of ‘Centres of Excellence in Polymer Technology’ aims at setting up of Centers of Excellence (COE) in existing educational and research institutions working in the field of polymers. It is expected that each Centre of Excellence (COE) will emerge as an internationally recognized Centre for the analysis and dissemination of existing global knowledge in the chosen fields. Detailed proposals received from the Institutions have been evaluated by an expert Panel for finalizing the names of institutions as Centres of Excellence during the 11th Plan period. Two fully functional Centres of Excellences (COEs) are to be established over a period of three years.

The campaign against plastic is restricted to plastic carry bags and their indiscriminate littering. The aim of setting up Centres of Excellence, inter alia, includes developing bio-polymers and bio-degradable polymers and innovative recycling process technology which may ultimately result in developing strategies to address such issues.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Shri Srikant Kumar Jena in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

DNM/PKM/SB

Perhaps one of these centers of excellence will be in Odisha as the CIPET campuses in Odisha have good research programs in polymer technology and it has the LARPM (Laboratory for advanced research in polymeric materials).

March 4th, 2011

Special allocations to selected institutions in this budget

Following is compiled from a report in India Today, a report in Telegraph and a report in Hindu.

  • Rs 200 crore one-time grant to IIT-Kharagpur (West Bengal)
  • Rs 50 crore for Aligarh Muslim University centre at Murshidabad (West Bengal)
  • Rs 20 crore for IIM-Calcutta to set up its Financial Research and Trading Laboratory (West Bengal)
  • Rs 10 crore for the Kolkata centre of the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (West Bengal)
  • Rs 10 crore for the Allahabad centre of the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (UP)
  • Rs 100 crore one-time grant to Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University at Pookode (Kerala)
  • Rs 50 crore for Aligarh Muslim University centre at Malappuram (Kerala)
  • Rs.15 crore has been allocated for the Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education (LNCPE) at Karyavattom. (Kerala)
  • Rs 20 crore for Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (Tamil Nadu)
  • Rs 10 crore for Madras School of Economics (Tamil Nadu)
  • Rs 10 crore for Delhi School of Economics (Delhi)

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2011-12 budget allocations for various HRD institutions

The 2011-12 budget is available at http://indiabudget.nic.in/ebmain.asp. The HRD budget page is http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2011-12/eb/sbe59.pdf. Following is from those pages.

MHRD: Higher Education:

  • Total budget for Higher Education: 21912 crores.   (2010-11: 18206 crores)
  • UGC: Total budget is 8675.66 crores. (2010-11: 7530.19 crores) [Includes the budget of the old and new central universities.]**CUO Koraput**
  • Educational Loan interest subsidy: 640 crores (2010-11: 500 crores; this program was introduced in 2010-11.)
  • 7 old IITs: 2081.68 crores (2010-11: 1771.71 crores)
  • Setting up of 8 new IITs: 500 crores (2010-11: 250 crores)**IIT Bhubaneswar**
  • IISc Bangalore: 290.41 crores (2010-11: 267.65 crores)
  • ISMU Dhanbad: 138.68 crores (2010-11: 122.47 crores)
  • 5 IISERs: 580 crores (2010-11: 450 crores)
  • 20 NITs: 1378.58 crores (2010-11: 1292.51 crores)**NIT Rourkela**
  • Setting up of new NITs: 40 crores (2010-11: 16.81 crores)
  • IIEST: 25 crores
  • 7 old IIMs (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore, Shillong): 148.93 crores (2010-11: 108.8 crores)
  • Setting up of new IIMs: 60 crores (2010-11: 13 crores)
  • IIITs:  Gwalior – 39.38 crores; Allahabad  – 52.35 crores; Jabalpur – 40 crores; Kanchipuram – 70 crores.
  • New IIITs: 29 crores **IIIT Berhampur ??**
  • SLIET: 39.03 crores (2010-11: 27 crores)
  • NERIST: 39.66 crores (2010-11: 36.34 crores)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare:

  • Total: 26897 crores (2010-11: 23300 crores)
  • Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi: 345 crores (2010-11: 330.69 crores)
  • Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi: 283 crores (2010-11: 257.54 crores)
  • Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi: 67 crores (2010-11: 52.03 crores)
  • All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mumbai: 14.5 crores (2010-11: 11.6 crores)
  • Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi: 56.22 crores (2010-11: 53.91 crores)
  • Vallabh Bhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi University: 33.4 crores (2010-11: 30.72 crores)
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College & Smt. Sucheta Kripalani Hospital New Delhi: 194 crores (2010-11: 174.72 crores)
  • NIMHANS Bangalore: 166.23 crores (2010-11: 140.46 crores)
  • All India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore: 41 crores (2010-11: 34.35 crores)
  • PGIMER, Chandigarh: 470 crores (2010-11: 407 crores)
  • JIPGMER, Puducherry: 250 crores (2010-11: 266 crores)
  • AIIMS New Delhi: 1022.35 crores (2010-11: 985 crores)
  • 6 New AIIIMS-like institutions and upgrading of state govt. hospitals: 1616.57 crores (2010-11: 747 crores)**AIIMS-like Bhubaneswar**

Department of Atomic Energy:

  • Total: 7602.41 crores (2010-11: 6535.29 crores)
  • BARC, Mumbai: 2554 crores (2010-11: 2338.20 crores)
  • IGCAR, Kalpakkam: 711.70 crores (2010-11: 454 crores)
  • RRCAT, Indore: 248.15 crores (2010-11: 226.25 crores)
  • VECC, Kolkata: 155.69 crores (2010-11: 106.54 crores)
  • TIFR, Mumbai: 510.38 crores (2010-11: 417.30 crores)
  • Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai: 289.78 crores (2010-11: 286.60 crores)
  • Saha Institute, Kolkata:  117.05 crores (2010-11: 116.9  crores)
  • Institute Of Physics (IOP), Bhubaneswar: 239.6 crores (2010-11:  76.86 crores)
  • Harish-Chandra Institute, Allahabad: 25.8 crores (2010-11: 19.74  crores)
  • Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai: 28 crores (2010-11: 27.5  crores)
  • Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar: 564.48 crores (2010-11: 384.63 crores)

(IOP’s budget used to be around 20-25 crores, close to the budget of HCI Allahabad and IMS Chennai. The substantially higher amount is because it includes the budget of NISER, Bhubaneswar. I wonder why NISER does not have a line item budget.)

Ministry of Statistics and programme Implementation

  • Indian Statistical Institute: 141 Crores (2010-11: 131.76 crores)

Ministry of Textiles

  • National Institute of Fashion Technology: 167 crores (2010-11: 108 crores) [Several campuses, including one in Bhubaneswar]

Ministry of Environment and Forests

  • Indian Institute of Forest Management: 12.5 crores (2010-11: 12.5 crores)

Department of Space

  • Vikram Sarabhai Space Center: 686.03 crores (2010-11: 603.05 crores)
  • ISRO-Inertial Systems Unit: 39.74 crores (2010-11: 29.63 crores)
  • Liquid propulsions systems center: 314.33 crores (2010-11: 271.32 crores)
  • Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology: 100 crores (2010-11: 100 crores)
  • ISRO Satellite Center (ISAC): 320.69 crores (2010-11: 348.10 crores)
  • Laboratory for Electro-Optics System: 42.85 crores (2010-11: 36.71 crores)
  • Semi-Conductor Laboratory: 80 crores (2010-11: 58 crores)
  • Satish Dhawan Space Center: 434.77 crores (2010-11: 364.41 crores)
  • Space Application Center: 420.75 crores (2010-11: 300.86 crores)
  • National Remote Sensing Center: 223.80 crores (2010-11: 222.2 crores)
  • Physical Research Laboratory: 80.7 crores (2010-11: 47.13 crores)
  • National Atmospheric Research Laboratory: 19.34 crores (2010-11: 9.1 crores

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

  • Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology:  39 crores (2010-11: 36 crores)

Ministry of Chemical and Fertlizers

  • NIPER (old and several new ones): 132.31 crores (2010-11: 71.22 crores)
  • CIPET: 44.32 crores (2010-11: 74.55 crores) [*Several campuses including one in Bhubaneswar*]
  • Institute of Pesticides Formulation Technology: 4 crores (2010-11: 3.19 crores)

Ministry of Agriculture

  • National Institute of Biotic Stress Management: 20 crores (new)
  • Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology: 30 crores (new)
  • Central Agricultural University, Bundelkhand: 30 crores (new)

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

  • Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development: 10.8 crores (2010-11: 9.9 crores)
  • Laxmi Bai National Institute of Physical Education: 24.63 crores (2010-11: 36.63 crores)
  • Laxmi Bai National Institute of Physical Education – NE area and Sikkim Initiative: 15 crores (2010-11: 3 crores)

Ministry of Science & Technology

  • 23 autonomous S & T institutions and professional bodies: 713 crores (2010-11: 589 crores)
  • 14 autonomous Biotechnology R & D institutions: 378.35 crores (2010-11: 330.1 crores) **Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar**
  • 37 CSIR National Laboratories and 38 field centers: 2312.68 crores (2010-11: 2083.84 crores)
  • Institute of Translational Research (Innovation Complexes): 10 crores (new) [To be created at strategic locations.]

Ministry of Culture

  • National School of Drama: 21.2 crores (2010-11: 21.95 crores)

Ministry of Shipping

  • Indian Maritime University: 41 crores (2010-11: 26 crores)

Ministry of Tourism

  • Training (22 institutes of Hotel Management; 5 Food Craft Institutes; IITTM; National Institute of Water Sports): 123 crores (2010-11: 109.22 crores)

Department of Information Technology

  • National Informatic Centers: 679 crores (2010-11: 628 crores)
  • C-DAC: 185.4 crores (2010-11: 163 crores)

Ministry of Corporate Affairs

  • Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs: 28 crores (2010-11: 87.36 crores)

Ministry of Commerce

  • National Institute of Design: 9.5 crores (2010-11: 11.49 crores)
  • National Institute of Intellectual Property Management: 8.4 crores (2010-11: 10.3 crores)
  • Central Manufacturing Technology Institutes: 5.5 crores (2010-11: 4.24 crores)

I have not been able to figure out which ministry funds the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Also, if I am missing some institutes which I should include, please let me know.

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