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		<title>2010 Odisha budget has 32.5 crores for adding a medical college to Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See http://www.orissalinks.com/orissagrowth/archives/3365; in particular http://www.orissalinks.com/orissagrowth/wp-content/uploads/image/20100315%20budget.JPG. The later shows that the 2010 budget has 32.5 crores for making the building and the foundation for the proposed medical college associated with the Capital Hospital. This was proposed and announced several years back. Good to see this in the budget. This is a good and inexpensive way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/4008</link>
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		<title>IISERs will have their own aptitute test on July 18 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Thanks to the Suryanarayanan&#8217;s comment number 147 in http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/285).
The IISER admission site at http://www.iiser-admissions.in/ says that there will be three ways to get admission in the IISERs: (i) KVPY (ii) IIT JEE and (iii) Direct.
But by &#34;Direct&#34; they mean through an aptitude test that will be held on July 18 2010. They say:&#160;

Direct Admission is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New dynamic VCs lead the Sambalpur region towards a knowledge hub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UCE Burla becoming VSSUT and the hiring of dynamic vice Chancellors at VSSUT (Prof. D K Tripathy from IIT Kharagpur) as well as at Sambalpur University (Prof. Arun Pujari from the University of Hyderabad) has given a huge momentum in making the Sambalpur area a knowledge hub and together with similar progress at Rourkela a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education issues debated in Odisha Assembly: Naming of National/innovation University; Government taking over of the medical college in Kalahandi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tathya.in reports that this time nice debates are going on in the Odisha assembly.Following are some Samaja reports on debates relevant to education.



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		<title>DST funded Innovative Summer program in Science for +2 students at Sambalpur University</title>
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Kudos to the people at Sambalpur University (The VC and the others) for organizing this program. After this they should pursue the establishment of a UM-DAE CBS (Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences) type of institute associated with Sambalpur University. The current VC has the vision and ability to make it happen. Note that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rourkelacity.com: CM favorable towards ESIC Medical College in Rourkela</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt from http://www.rourkelacity.com/top-news/naveen-patnaik-assured-and-indicates-green-signal-for-esic-medical-college-at-rourkela/.

Today under the leadership of Dr. Prafulla Majhi ( MLA , Talsara Constituency, Sundargarh ) about 6 MLAs from Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar met the Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik and appraised him about the discontent among the civil society and people at Rourkela and Sundargarh on the on going issue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3984</link>
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		<title>NIFT Bhubaneswar to cost 58.65 crore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt from http://www.bharattextile.com/newsitems/2010539.

Ministry of Textiles has received a proposal from the State Government of Orissa for establishment of a NIFT Centre at Bhubaneswar. State Government has also conveyed its commitment for providing land free of cost and funds for creating necessary infrastructure. The approximate cost of establishing NIFT centre would be Rs.58.65 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3981</link>
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		<title>CSIR center to come up in Koraput via the CSIR-800 Programme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt from a report in expressbuzz.com.

Koraput will soon be connected to the nationwide network of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratories as it is chosen as an extension centre to have a pool of master trainers to train grassroots-level people in applied technologies in various fields.
The extension centre would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3976</link>
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		<title>Odisha should learn from Andhra Pradesh on how to go about creating knowledge hubs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard.

&#8230; Reddy mooted a proposal to IIM-A and IIM-B in 2008, requesting them to set up an &#8220;extended campus&#8221; in the state. IIM-A is learnt to have been offered nearly 150 acres at a nominal cost and a Rs 100-crore interest-free loan.
&#8230; Meanwhile, the Bangalore-located Indian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3972</link>
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		<title>Progress report and current thinking on the proposed AIIMS-like institutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update:Following is from PIB http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=59525.

LOK SABHA 
The Government has approved setting up of six AIIMS-like institutions in the States of Bihar (Patna), Chhattisgarh (Raipur), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal), Orissa (Bhubaneswar), Rajasthan (Jodhpur) and Uttarakhand (Rishikesh) under the first phase of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). It is also proposed to set up two more institutions, [...]]]></description>
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