Odisha HRD

Progress on the AIIMS-like institutes, including the one proposed for Bhubaneswar

Following are excerpts from the current content at http://www.mohfw.nic.in/EoI_FOR_PC.htm.

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Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW),Government of India, intends to set up AIIMS like Apex Healthcare Institutes one each at Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh. The institutes are being set up in approximately 100 acre land already made available by State Government.

These apex institutes have been envisaged as Centers of Excellence with 500 bedded hospital, 300 additional Super-specialty and ICU beds, an independent 100 beds for Trauma Care, 30 beds each for PMR and  AYUSH  Facilities. These Institutes will provide undergraduate and post graduate medical education and medical services in 39 specialty /super-specialty disciplines. The activities of the institutes will focus on providing the highest quality of patient care services, medical education and engage in biomedical research.

HLL has been appointed ‘In-house Consultant’ by MoH&FW for implementing the project. The Project is being envisaged as Hospital and College Complex and Hostel and Residential Complex. Land at Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur and Rishikesh are contiguous for the entire project while at Patna and Raipur Residential Complex are being located separately. Site Survey, Sub-Soil Investigation and Zoning plan have been completed for all the sites. Area has also been earmarked and boundary wall have been constructed.

Hospital and College Complex. The RFP Document for Design and Detailed Project Report (DDPR) has been issued to short listed firms. The DDPR Consultant is likely to be selected for each site by Nov, 2007.

Residential and Hostel Complex.  The Complex is being developed by EPC Developer on turnkey basis and Contractor for each site is likely to be selected by Sep 2007.

Hospital Furniture and Medical Equipment. The client has already constituted a committee to finalize the requirement of Hospital furniture and medical equipments. The project consultant will be required to be associated in supervision, installation and commissioning of equipment and furniture as per delivery schedule till final handing over to the hospital authorities.

The approximate cost of works per institute  for hospital and college complex is Rs 125.00 Crore.
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The proposal named PRADHAN MANTRI SWASTHYA SURAKSHA YOJNA (PMSSY) has been launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India to offer Speciality and Super-speciality medical care and to improve the quality of medical education by creating six AIIMS like apex healthcare Institutes at Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur & Rishikesh in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand respectively.

• The proposed Institutes shall have state-of-the-art multi-specialty /super-specialty facilities with captive hospital, medical college with annual intake of 100 undergraduates and P.G/Doctoral courses in various Specialty/Super-specialty disciplines based on Medical Council of India (MCI) norms, requisite infrastructures, nursing college, hostels and housing complexes.  The AIIMS like Institutes would be centre of excellence and completely autonomous on the line of IITs/IIMs. These Institutes would be run and managed by Government of India.
•  These Institutes will participate in providing national leadership in the education of physicians and medical scientists, biomedical research and in the application of sophisticated medical technology to patient care. The activities of the Institutes will focus on providing the highest quality patient care services, medical education and in advancing biomedical research.
• Hospital facilities in India attract very large crowds .The facilities being created are to be used by the poorest population of the country. It is envisaged that these facilities would be holistic in nature, economical to build, respond to the local environment and climatic conditions and create an environment which is user friendly.
• The objectives of project development are Modular Pattern of development, ability to expand to meet future needs, be energy efficient in use of Water, Power and other scarce resources. Air-conditioned areas would be limited to essential services of the hospital functioning.
• Service needs of these facilities plays an important part in the development of the facility. Thus building services, mechanical systems, materials of Construction and movement systems for waste management etc form a major component of these facilities.
• The Institutes have been envisaged as centres of excellence for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, nursing education and medical services and are to be trendsetter in health research and advancement of medical sciences in India. The Institutes will provide educational facilities of very high quality comparable to the very best in the world for necessary medical manpower development.
• The Institutes will train medical graduates, post-graduates with international levels of quality and efficiency in health care delivery.  The Institutes will implement new approaches for medical education. They will provide best facilities for postgraduate studies and research.
• The Institutes, with state-of-the-art high-tech medical equipment, will offer diagnostic and therapeutic care in clearly identified specialty and super-specialty services. The Institutes will also conduct health research, both basic and applied.
• The Institutes shall consists of :-
  •       500 Beds hospital providing Medical treatment in 18 Specialty disciplines
  •       300 beds in 15 Super-Specialty discipline.
  •       50 beds in ICU and critical care
  •       50 beds Trauma ICU expandable to 100 beds and 50 bedded Recovery cum Rehabilitation Unit to be constructed at a later date.
  •       30 beds for PMR (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
  •       30 beds  for AYUSH Facilities
  •       6 Basic Science Department
  •       Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation Centre.
  •        State of the  art Diagnostic Centre to be constructed later
  •       Medical College with 100 intake capacity per year and PG/Doctoral courses in various discipline with admission based on MCI norms.
  •       Nursing College with annual intake of 60 students.

•    Residential Facilities shall come up as under
  • Housing for 167 Staff from Type I to V  and Director’s Bungalow
  • Hostel for UG for 375 Occupants
  • Hostel for PG and Interns 216 Occupants
  • Hostel for Residents 190 Occupants
  • Hostel for Nurses 200 Occupants

Bed Distributions:

SPECIALTIES	Beds
Surgical & Allied Specialties	220
General Surgery	120
Orthopaedics	60
Ophthalmology	20
Oto-rhinolaryngology	20
Medicine & Allied Specialties	220
General Medicine	120
Paediatrics	60
TB & Respiratory Diseases	20
Dermatology & STD	10
Psychiatry	10
Obstetrics & Gynaecology	60
Obstetrics	35
Post-partum	5
Gynaecology	20
TOTAL	500

 

The Institute shall also have the following super-specialty departments with the bed distribution as indicated below:

 

SUPERSPECIALTIES	Beds
Cardiology	20
Cardio-thoracic Vascular Surgery	20
Gastro-enter logy	20
Surgical Gastro-enter logy	20
Nephrology	20
Urology	20
Neurology	20
Neurosurgery	20
Medical Oncology	20
Surgical Oncology	20
Endocrinology/Metabolism	20
Clinical Haematology	20
Paediatric Surgery	20
Burns & Plastic Surgery	20
Pulmonary Medicine	20
TOTAL	300
Intensive Care Unit and Critical Care	50

 Two additional divisions are also to be integrated to the Institute

AYUSH Facilities	30
PMR DEPARTMENT	30

1 comment September 3rd, 2007

NISER Bhubaneswar list of successful candidates and admission information

The following is from the NISER web pages, particularly from this page.

General information regarding admission

Admission and registration to NISER is scheduled on 10th Sept. 2007 at 10 a.m. The inauguration of the academic programme of NISER will be held at 5 p.m. on 10Sept. 2007. Students have been allotted the stream of their first choice provisionally. The final allotment of streams will be done at the end of the first year based on their overall academic performance in semester I and semester II. Students will receive scholarship at the rate of Rs. 3,000/-per month.
All the students will have to register for all the courses which are to be credited by all the entrants to NISER’s 5-year integrated M.Sc. programme. The details of course descriptions are being posted in the webpage of NISER.

All the students are required to bring with them at the time of admission the originals of the following documents:

                    (a) Class X and Class XII Mark Sheets,

                    (b) Class X certificate,

                    (c) Caste / Tribe certificate (in case of SC/ST candidates).

In addition they should also bring four passport size photographs and two stamp size photographs and a Demand Draft for Rs. 13,000/= (Rs. 7,000/-for SC/ST students) towards payment of tuition fee, caution money and mess advance. The DD should be drawn in favour of NISER, payable at Bhubaneswar.

The selected students are required to deposit tuition fee and other charges latest by September 14, 2007 failing which they will forfeit their seat in NISER.
Hostel accommodation
All the students will be provided hostel accommodation. They are expected to register for the hostel accommodation at the time of admission. Details about the availability of hostel accommodation for boys and girls will be posted on the web soon.

5 comments September 3rd, 2007

Dresss code for teachers and other plans regarding K-12 BSE schools – report from Samaja

September 2nd, 2007

Monthly VLSI certificate program at Central Tool Room – ad in Samaja

September 2nd, 2007

Samaja interview with Dr. P. L. Nayak – Scientists are neglected in Orissa

Dr. P. L. Nayak is an expert in biodegradable polymers made out of agricultural feed-stock such as maize and is the Chairman of the board of directors of the company SPC  Botech in Hyderabad. He did a lot of his research on this topic during his days in Ravesnhaw College, Cuttack. Following is an interview of him in Samaja.

September 2nd, 2007

Detailed schedule for Orissa AIEEE/Remaining JEE/etc. available at Orissa JEE website

(Update on June 17 2008:  For guidance on what you can get with your Orissa JEE rank in 2008, please see https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/1185 I do not have more information than that.)

See http://www.jeeorissa.com/newsfiles/news_23.htm. Following is its content as of now. (As always, please check the original source for up-to-date or corrected -if any- information.)

JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION-2007, ORISSA

COUNSELLING-CUM-ADMISSION FOR VACANT NRI/JEE/AIEEE/AIPMEE/AIPDEE QUOTA SEATS

As per approved provisions of the Government the counselling-cum-admission for vacant NRI/JEE and AIEEE/AIPMEE/AIPDEE quota seats for different courses will be held as noted below.

Venue:            OUAT Conference Hall (Swaminathan Hall)

Schedule of Counselling-cum-Admission

Session Timing- Reporting Time: Session 1- 8.15am; Session 2 – 11.30am; session 3 – 3pm.

All Candidates are required to bring the following documents to the counselling: (i) Original rank card (AIEEE/AIPMEE/ AIPDEE) or registration card for JEE admitted candidates or downloaded rank card for JEE extended merit-list candidates, (ii) All their certificates and mark-sheets starting from 10^th standard with one set of Xerox copies of each, (iii) SLC/CLC in original (iv) Certificate from the head of the Institution last attended (Appendix V in JEE Counselling-cum-admission Instructions available in our website: www.jeeorissa.com, (v) Two Bank drafts of Rs.16,000/- and Rs.200/- in favour of “JEE-2007” payable at Bhubaneswar ; Rs.200/- draft only for JEE admitted candidates, (vi) Valid NATA score card for candidates seeking admission to Architecture (vii) Permanent resident/nativity certificate for candidates seeking admission to MBBS/BDS course.                 

 # The details of schedule and venue for MBA and MCA counselling shall be intimated shortly.

           Chairman, JEE-2007, Orissa

42 comments September 2nd, 2007

Orissa JEE (AIEEE etc.) second round counseling schedule

Following is from Tathya.in.

Venue for counseling will be the Swaminathan Hall of OUAT, Bhubaneswar.  The counseling of MBA and MCA will be notified shortly.

Counseling Schedule

Date	Programme
5th & 6th September	AIPMT, vacant seats of MBBS/BDS
7th to 12th September	AIEEE and vacant seats of Architecture
13th of September	Vacant seats of JEE
14th and 15th September	Vacant seats of Pharmacy-JEE

81 comments September 2nd, 2007

Orissa JEE (AIEEE etc.) second round counseling on Sept 4th and 5th

Dharitri and Sambada report that the Department of Industries, Government of Orissa has a notification that the second round of JEE counseling will be done during September 4th and 5th. Neither article says where. Tathya.in has many reports on the reason behind the delay. Following are from Sambada and Dharitri, respectively.

46 comments September 1st, 2007

Gopabandhu Academy of Administration has a web presence

Tathya.in points us to the web page of the Gopabandhu Academy of Administration. Its great that the web page also has the email addresses of the faculty. The training imparted by this institute is very important as all the Orissa administrative officers (including IAS officers) are trained here. Their current training schedule is there.  It seems they are not trained to obtain information and write proposals. That is one of many aspects where Orissa is doing pretty badly.

September 1st, 2007

IMIT, Cuttack may see some improvement

Following are some excerpts from a New indian Express report.

If things move in the right direction, the Institute of Management and Information Technology (IMIT) here, could have a new look replete with infrastructural adequacies.

Biju Patnaik University of Technology Vice- Chancellor Omkarnath Mohanty announced here on Thursday that the ailing institution would have a new campus, land for which is being scouted at Naraj, in the vicinity of the proposed second campus of the Ravenshaw University and the Law University.

However, before that the existing building of the Institute would be renovated and the classrooms spruced up for the comfort of the students. The move to renovate and modernise the institution came as students went on a strike on Thursday over the issue.

The VC also said the college, which offered three-year MCA course and MBA would be provided with 55 computers within a month, 17 of which would be available within 10 days. It presently has 25 computers, all of them outdated.

Further, only 18 of them are functional. Internet facilities would be provided at the earliest The college would also have its library refurbished and computerised. For the first time, the Government-run institution would also have a functional placement cell.

I hope the above happens.

9 comments August 31st, 2007

UGC’s thrust and priorities in the 11th plan

The document at http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/xiplanthrust_priorities.pdf discusses UGC’s thrusts and priorities for the 11th plan. I hope Orissa Universities are taking appropriate steps in this direction. I urge anyone with expertise and ideas on how universities in Orissa can take advantage of the UGC thrust areas to make suggestions in the comments section. Furthermore, if they have contacts in Orissa Universities (such as, they know the VC, the registrar or infleuntial faculty), then they can directly suggest ideas to them.

August 31st, 2007

Institutes of Public health in Hyderabad and Gandhinagar

The following is from a PIB report.

The Government has decided to support the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in setting up world class Institutes of Public health in India through contribution of upto Rs. 65 crore as one-time grant to the initial Rs. 200 crore PHFI corpus. The representatives of the Government are also there in the Governing Board of PHFI. PHFI is an autonomous Public-Private partnership and besides Government of India, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Deshpande Foundation, Amar Foundation and other high net worth corporates/individuals, both from within India and abroad, are contributing to the PHFI corpus fund.

PHFI is an initiative to bridge the gap between the requirement and availability of trained personnel in public health and to effectively promote public health management. It will not only train health professionals, but will also assist in strengthening the existing institutions in the public health sector, create a pool of excellent faculty, act as a think tank for the Government providing inputs for policy initiatives and set standards for public health education. The research programmes of PHFI would be geared to facilitate policy and programme development in public health through inter-disciplinary studies.

PHFI has decided to establish Institutes of Public health in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The institutes will be fully operation by 2009, although short and medium term education and training programmes are expected to start from year 2008 itself.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.

5 comments August 31st, 2007

Veterinary related research center in Orissa: Samaja

1 comment August 30th, 2007

Ekalavya School (Class VI to XII) for Adivasis in Kalinganagar – Kudos to past Jajpur Collector Dr. Arvind Padhee for his initiative on this (a Samaja article)

August 30th, 2007

ITER advertises (in Samaja) for its M.Tech program again

ITER had earlier advertised for its M. tech program. Today there is the following new ad.

August 30th, 2007

Short term training programs in hardware: ad in Samaja

August 30th, 2007