Setting up of 20 new IIITs
The MHRD in its page http://www.education.nic.in/tech/tech-newIIITs.asp has put several documents regarding this. The list of documents present there are:
- Scheme of the setting up of 20 new IIITs on PPP model.
- Records of discussion of the workshop on setting up of 20 new IIITs on PPP model organized on 18th March 2011 at IIT, Delhi.
- Draft – Memorandum of Association and Rules of IIIT.
- Draft – Memorandum of Agreement between the President of India; the Governor of the State and Industry Partner namely in connection with setting up 20 new IIITs on PPP model.
- Draft format for Proposals from the Government/UTs for setting up of new IIIT.
- Draft recommendations for selecting industry partners for setting up IITs in PPP mode.
- Draft criteria for selection of proposals received from the State Government/Union Territories for setting up of new IIITs.
- DPR on setting up new IIITs.
It will be a competitive process in terms of which ones are made when. Several states are gearing up for this. Recently there has been news about this from states such as:
- Maharashtra, proposing it to be in the Pune-Mumbai belt. (May 25, 2011).
- Chhatisgarh. (May 29, 2011).
- Himachal Pradesh. (May 21, 2011)
- Karnataka, in Dharwad (May 19, 2011).
- Bihar (May 2 2011).
Earlier there was news from West Bengal (Feb 17, 2011) and Odisha (Feb 22, 2011). But this is before the 18th March 2011 meeting and the recent publication of the "Draft criteria for selection of proposals received from the State Government/Union Territories for setting up of new IIITs". Odisha government needs to immediately respond with a good proposal that addresses all aspects of the draft criteria. Odisha’s work is cut-out as proposing Berhampur as a location would need a very strong and well-articulated proposal. The readers from Berhampur, and those who want this to be in Berhampur, need to help the government in this.
3 comments May 29th, 2011