ITER ad in Samaja for M.Sc in Biotechnology
3 comments September 26th, 2007
ITR in Chandipur to become an Air Borne Range
Following are excerpts from a report in New Indian Express on this.
The Integrated Test Range (ITR), ‘dream child’ of former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, will soon achieve the status of an Air Borne Range (ABR).
This was announced by Dr V K Saraswat, chief controller research and development (R&D), DRDO, on Saturday evening. Saraswat was here to attend the silver jubilee function of ITR.
The status will mean there will be an instrumented station in space. A Floating and Tracking System will be set up in space to track missile systems.
28 comments September 24th, 2007
Orissa cabinet decides on land lease for Sri Sri Ravishankar University: 6 crores for 185.97 acres
Following is an excerpt from a news report in Economic Times.
Orissa Government on Saturday decided to allot nearly 200 acres of land at a concessional rate to Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidyamandir (SSRV) for setting up its proposed multi-disciplinary university in the state.
This was decided at the state cabinet’s meeting today, presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
According to the government’s decision, the Bangalore-based trust will pay Rs 6 crore for 185.970 acre of land near Naraj barrage over river Mahanadi in Cuttack district.
Officials said while the actual price of the land sanctioned in favour of the trust would be Rs 30 crore, the government, on the basis of its Industrial Resolution Policy, decided to offer the land at a cheaper price.
"The government is prompted to give land on concessional price as the trust would be setting up a university of international standard in the state," said Chief Secretary Ajit Tripathy. …
Sources said that the government has demarcated land for the purpose in three villages in Cuttack sadar tehsil. "While 105.57 acres are demarcated in Vidyadharpur village, 48.21 acres in Arilo village and 32.19 acres in Govindpur village," he said.
The SSRV had signed MOU with the state government on December 12, 2006 for the university.
The decision came close on the heels of the government’s decision to allot nearly 6,200 acre of land to Vedanta group for setting up its university near Puri.
2 comments September 23rd, 2007
ITER advertises for its M.Tech program for the third time: Ad in Samaja
ITER had earlier advertised for its M. tech program in August and then again in September. Perhaps it still has unfilled seats. Hence a third advertisement and a third entrance exam.
September 19th, 2007
Updates on the AIIMS-like institutes
Following are excerpts from a report in livemint.com.
Tenders open in Oct for Rs 1,500 cr AIIMS-like hospitals in six cities
C.H. Unnikrishnan
An ambitious Rs 10,000 crore project, led by the Union ministry of health and family welfare, to set up over a dozen multi-speciality hospitals and medical education institutions across the country, under the so-called National Rural Health Mission, will kick off in the first week of October with the opening of architecture and design tenders for six hospital projects.
The six medical institutions —being modelled on New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences—at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh costing Rs1,500 crore are expected to be completed in 2009. Other phases of the National Rural Health Mission, including super-speciality hospitals and medical institutions in 11 states, will be finalized soon.
This is the first major government investment for health care infrastructure in the country, even as private players such as Fortis Healthcare Ltd, Max Helathcare Ltd, Hinduja Group, Apollo Hospitals Ltd, and Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd, among others, have earmarked between Rs10,000 crore and Rs15,000 crore for new hospitals and expansion of existing ones.
According to an official at the state-owned Hindustan Latex Ltd’s procurement and consultancy division, which has been appointed a consultant to the first phase of the project, the government has received 14 “expressions of interest for the design and architecture of the six AIIMS-like medical institutions proposed in the project.”
IVRCL Infrastructure & Projects Ltd, RITES Ltd, HSCC India Ltd, Hospitech Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd, Technicalia Consultants Ltd, Kotari Associates Ltd, and Borg Lor Associates Ltd are among those that have bid for architecture contracts.
The proposed institutes will be equipped to handle multiple diseases and disorders with 800 hospital beds along with intensive care units and trauma care centres. They will have medical colleges with annual intake of 100 students and will also offer doctoral courses.
The following phases of the National Rural Health Mission, which include upgradation of seven medical institutions in six other states, and setting up of super-speciality medical institutions and research centres in another five states through the public-private partnership model, are also being finalised. The government is also planning upgradation of about 700 hospitals in rural areas especially in underserved states.
The emphasis on health care infrastructure under the five-year, Rs40,000 crore National Rural Health Mission of the government comes in the wake of strong criticism from non-governmental organizations and national healthcare action groups.
September 19th, 2007
NISER Bhubaneswar has a second and final list of candidates
The following list is from NISER’s web page.
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2nd Admission list for NISER 2007 -08 |
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Rank
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Dt. of Int.
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Name
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Town
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Category
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Gender
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32
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28/08/07
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Abhishek Dwivedy
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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M
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33
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28/08/07
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Abhishek Kumar Thakur
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Jharsuguda
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Gen
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M
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34
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27/08/07
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Akash Suman
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Patna
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Gen
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M
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36
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28/08/07
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Aaram A. Kumar
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T.V.P.M.
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Gen
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M
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38
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27/08/07
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Pragyanditi Dash
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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F
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39
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27/08/07
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Pallavee Vitti Krushna
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Keonjhar
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Gen
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F
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40
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28/08/07
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Shoumi Roy
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Kolkata
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Gen
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F
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41
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27/08/07
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Poonam Kumari
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Ranchi
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Gen
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F
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42
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30/08/07
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Kamal Kumar
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Begusarai
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Gen
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M
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43
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31/08/07
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Saswati Sucharita Pati
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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F
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44
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29/08/07
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Ankan Gantait
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Medinipur
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Gen
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M
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45
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30/08/07
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Raju Kumar Yadav
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Ranchi
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Gen
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M
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46
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31/08/07
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Sidharth Nanda
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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M
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47
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31/08/07
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Sourajit Soumya Ranjan Dash
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Sikarpai
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Gen
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M
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49
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28/08/07
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Amit Kumar
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Patna
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Gen
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M
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50
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7/9/2007
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Suman Sourav
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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M
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ST Category
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70
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30/08/07
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Roseleen Ekka
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Jalpaiguri
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ST
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F
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71
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28/08/07
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Vikram Singh Meena
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Swai Madhopur
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ST
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M
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PD Category
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74
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30/08/07
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Parmita Tiwari
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Raipur
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Gen
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F
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September 15th, 2007
Sainik School Bhubaneswar’s ad in Samaja
Update: A PIB release on this is at http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=31792. It lists the various Sainik Schools in the country.
September 15th, 2007
Mostly job oriented programs at Fakirmohan University: Dharitri
New Indian Express also reports on this.
2 comments September 12th, 2007
Some numbers related to IIT Kharagpur : a reference point to NISER
Update on April 14, 2008: IIM Kozhikode has a faculty of 17 against the sanctioned strength of 40 members, IIM Calcutta has 70 against a sanctioned strength of 88; IIM Bangalore has 74 as against the sanctioned strength of 89.
Update on Oct 16, 2007: IIT Delhi has a sanctioned faculty of 583, with 130 vacancies.
Update on Oct 2, 2007: IIT Bombay has a faculty strength of 420, with 100 vacancies.
Frontline has a nice article on IIT Kharagpur. Following are some excerpts.
it has 19 departments, eight multidisciplinary centres and schools and 13 schools of excellence besides laboratories and central research facilities. It employs 1,600 employees, including 460 faculty members, and has 7,000 students on a sprawling, green campus of over 2,100 acres…
In comparison, according to various reports NISER (New Indian Express, Kalinga Times) would have 250 faculty, 2000 students, 761 employees and will be built in 300 acres with a project cost of 823.19 crores. Thus, in terms of faculty size and employee size it is envisaged to be about half the size of IIT Kharagpur.
Some information on IISER as was given in a recent PIB is as follows:
The Government of India has set up three Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), at Pune, Kolkata and Mohali. Two more IISERs are being set up at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram. These Institutes have been/are being set up on th3 recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM). The total estimated project cost of each IISER is Rs. 500.00 crores which includes Rs. 241.00 crores fro construction of building and other infrastructural facilities and Rs. 259.00 crores as recurring expenditure, spread over a period of 7 years.
2 comments September 12th, 2007
