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Note that the Indian Maritime University now has a new campus in Kandla, Gujarat. The initial campuses were in Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam and Kochi. The Odisha government should push for a campus in Odisha; perhaps by taking over or in adjacent to the existing Orissa maritime academy in Paradeep.
November 27th, 2011
Following are some of the highlights mentioned in the above article.
- Utkal University’s rank increased from 44 to 21 in the latest India Today ranking.
- The Economics, Philosophy and Anthropology departments have received the Center for Advanced Studies designation for its research.
- The Psychology department has had the Center for Advanced Studies designation for the last 25 years. This is a first with respect to any state university in India.
- English and Odia programs are specially funded by UGC.
- With the help of UGC, the programs of Tourism management, Journalism and Yoga under the departments of Ancient history of Utkal, General administration and Sanskrit, respectively, have created their independent identity.
- All the Science departments of the university get independent funding from Department of Science & Technology of the Central government.
- The Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Geology departments have UGC funding and are part of the FIST program.
- It has been announced that the Biotechnology department will get full support from the Department of Biotechnology of the central government for the next two years.
November 27th, 2011
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