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The coming assembly session of Orissa starts tomorrow. Various newspapers report that UPA injsutice regarding an IIT in Orissa will be a major issue in this session. Following are some excerpts.
1. Statesman:
The performance of UPA government at the Centre vis-Ã -vis allocations to Orissa is expected to hold centre stage during the budget session of the Assembly commencing here tomorrow.
Ruling BJD-BJP, which has been raising the hackneyed Central neglect theme in recent times, has decided to move a motion for discussion on the subject as well as one on price rise. Denying an IIT to Orissa, meagerly allocations under the Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutikaran Yojana and KBK programme are some of the issues with which the ruling combine is training its guns on the UPA government and the Congress party.
2. Telegraph:
On the other hand the BJD-BJP legislature party made it clear that they would continue to deplore the “step-motherly†attitude of the Centre towards Orissa.
Legislators of the ruling BJD-BJP and Opposition Congress today met separately at the Assembly to chalk out strategies a day before the commencement of the state Assembly Budget session.
Parliamentary affairs minister Raghunath Mohanty said the BJD-BJP alliance would bring two motions to be discussed in the second-half of the session.
“We will raise the issue of a special package for Orissa in view of the ill treatment and step-motherly attitude to Orissa in all matters. Take a look at the issue of setting up an IIT in Orissa or meagre Central funds for rural electrification,†he said.
June 1st, 2007
Update on June 1 2007: Pioneer has published a version of this article.
Tathya.in has a hard hitting article on the IIT issue that blames the Congress party. Following are some quotes from it:
After returning from New Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President Jaydev Jena said “Prime Minister (PM) Dr Man Mohan Singh has agreed to visit Orissa soon.
Jena requested PM to visit Orissa shortly and review several ongoing Centrally-sponsored welfare program in the state to which the latter agreed.”
There was a similar report about Union Minister of State (MOS) for Rural Development Chandrasekhar Sahu meeting the PM and Dr. Singh agreeing to come to Orissa.
And that he may announce some new institutes such as Indian Institute of Handloom Technology.
Lets compare an IIT with the Indian Institute of Handloom Technology (IIHT) in terms of investment, said an analyst.
As per the budget of the Department of Textiles the total money for human resource development is Rs 3 crores.
It seems like this Rs. 3 crore includes the budget for 4 existing handloom institutes and probably as well as the new one proposed in Bargarh.
In contrast there is Rs. 80 crores towards the groundwork for 3 new IITs and Rs. 1553 crores for the exisiting 7 IITs .
So annual budget of an existing IIT is Rs. 222 crores while for an IIHT (Indian Institute of Handloom Technology) it is at best Rs. 1 crore.
Similarly it takes Rs. 1000-4000 crores to make an IIT and for an handloom institute would be costing Rs. 5-10 crores at best.
IITs offer B.tech. M.Tech and Ph.Ds and IIHT offers only diplomas.
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But Congress MPs both in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha kept mum.
The other day when the Opposition Leader J B Patnaik was asked about IIT he said the State Government is not serious about the issue as they have not sent any formal proposal to open an IIT to the Centre.
But what prohibits you to raise the issue and impress the PM for an IIT, he engaged himself in the blame game.
The point is abundantly clear that the myopic and timid leaders of the Congress are not in a position to put their weight on the central leadership for an emotional and justified demand like an IIT.
May 31st, 2007
From http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=28365
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for introduction of a new Central Sector Scholarship Scheme of Top Quality Higher Education to Students belonging to Scheduled Tribes, to be implemented from 2007-08.
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RFP for EPC contractor for Housing Complex for Six AIIMS like Institutes:
- Volume 1: (a) Notice Inviting Bid (b) Instructions to Bidders (c) Terms of Reference (d) Evaluation Process and criteria.
- Volume 2 (a) Conditions of contract.
- Volume 3 (a) Client’s Requirement (b) Surveyed Site Plan (available with HLL)
RFP for Design DPR Consultants for Six AIIMS like Institutes:
- Volume 1 (a) Notice Inviting Bid (b) Instructions to Bidders (c) Terms of Reference (d) Evaluation Process and criteria.
- Volume 2 (a) Conditions of contract.
- Volume 3 (a) Client’s Requirement (b) Surveyed Site Plan (available with HLL) (c) Geotechnical investigation report (available with HLL) (d) Zoning Plan. (available with HLL)
May 31st, 2007
The Directorate of Construction, Services & Estate Management of DAE has published tenders for both the academic and the residential complex of NISER. The following table shows the Name of the work, the associated number, the sale period and the tender documents.
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These days the NISER, Bhubaneswar website seems to be very slow. We are putting a copy of their application form and information brochure in another location so that people having a hard time downloading it from NISER website can down load it from here (application form, information brochure). Both can be also obtained from the Homi Bhabha site of NISERNEST.
Please note that the last date of receipt of application form is June 8′ 2007.
Following is my archive of the NISER web pages as archived on April 25′ 2007.
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Following is a list of engineering colleges in Orissa which I earlier compiled at http://orissalinks.com.
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Following is a list of management institutes in Orissa which I earlier compiled in http://orissalinks.com.
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Following is a list of research institutes in Orissa which I earlier compiled at http://orissalinks.com.
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Following is a list of existing and proposed universities in Orissa which I earlier compiled in https://www.orissalinks.com.
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Following are ads of some coaching schools in Bhubaneswar that I came across.
- IBOOKS IIT medical coaching (web)
- Padhees tutorial
- Narayana coaching
- Naidu Coaching
- KIIT JEE coaching
May 31st, 2007
I came across this ad for a new engineering college in Bhubaneswar.
May 31st, 2007
Business standard reports on XIM’s future plans. Following is an excerpt:
At the Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar, the fresh batch will start on June 15. The institute has got an All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) approval to all its programmes and has thus decided to roll out new courses in econometrics, financial modelling and regulatory finance.
The institute will also start fresh courses in executive development programme through satellite training.
This academic year is significant to us as we got all our programmes approved by AICTE. We will be rolling out many more courses and will also be recruiting new faculty members this year, said Brijraj Mohanty, acting dean, XIM-B. XIM-B is also looking for a new campus in Orissa.
May 31st, 2007
With the Class X result out there have many many ads for various plus 2; most of them for plus 2 sc. Following is a collection of the ads that I came across. An earlier list is at http://www.orissawatch.org/?p=182.
Continue Reading May 30th, 2007
New Indian Express reports that Institute of Mathematics in Bhubaneswar is taking a lead in creating a new and improved high school Mathematics text in Oriya. Following is an excerpt from that report.
… the citybased Institute of Mathematics and Applications (IMA) has come forward with a project on textbook in two volumes in Oriya.
“The USP of these books are their content: Need-based, contemporary and specially written for those HSC passouts of Oriya medium schools,†says IMA Director Prof Swadhin Pattnaik.
The project, which began earlier this year would be completed in June so that by July the students will get the books through the Textbook Bureau, he says adding these books, apart from inspiring the students to take the subject more seriously, would help in easy understanding of the subject without going for tuitions.
The panel of writers include eminent mathematician and former vice-chancellor of Utkal University Prof Gokulananda Das, Prof PC Das of IIT Kanpur and Prof Pattnaik and mathematicians drawn from the apex colleges of the State.
From the psychological point of view, students can do better if they understand the subject in their mother tongue.
May 29th, 2007
I suggest that BPUT be moved from Rourkela to another location and a comprehensive university (like Utkal, Sambalpur, Berhampur etc.) be established in Rourkela, and the establishment of a medical college in Rourkela be expedited.
Some of you, before getting mad at me, please read the following reasoning.
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