Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas are CBSE board schools set up by the MHRD across India. As per their website their objective is:
* to provide good quality modern education to the talented children predominently from the rural areas, without regard to their family’s socio-economic condition.
* to ensure that all students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas attain a reasonable level of competence in three languages as envisaged in the Three Language Formula.
* to serve, in each district, as focal points for improvements in quality of school education in general through sharing of experiences and facilities.
In Orissa currently there are several such schools with the school in Cuttack as the nodal school.
Continue Reading May 22nd, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
In an earlier post we mentioned that NITs will now become institutions of national importance. We have come across a draft of the NIT Bill and also the IIT Bill of 1961. It looks like the NIT Bill (draft) is a good one and has even some improvements over the IIT Bill. Once the NIT Bill is passed in the parliament it will become the NIT act.
May 21st, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
Tathya’s running headline of today says that Best Western will open a culinary institute in Orissa. In the past Hotel Swosti in Bhubaneswar used to have the Best Western label. I am not sure if it still does.
Update: Tathya now has a full article on it. Following are some excerpts.
The leading hotel chain, Cabana Hotel Management Private Limited (CHMPL), which is the franchise holder of Best Western group for India has been allotted 7 acres of land in the capital city. The chairman and other board members of Best Western are visiting Orissa in the last week of this month to lay the foundation stone of the culinary institute.
May 21st, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
Dear all:
Thank you for all that you have already done for the IIT in Orissa cause. We are chronicling the efforts and happenings at http://iitorissa.org and http://orissawatch.org
Based on various news reports following is the current situation -in a nutshell-with respect to getting an IIT in Orissa.
1. The media is regularly covering the issue and the general people in streets have become aware of the issue of IIT as well as the central neglect/injustice/discrimination against Orissa. http://iitorissa.org http://orissawatch.org
Continue Reading May 21st, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
The IIT issue and the associated issue of central government neglect (injustice, discrimination) has become a hot political issue in Orissa. While the BJD and its CM supremo Naveen Patnaik has been discussing it forcefully in its meetings, even in villages; the Congress has been forced to respond. However the response of the Congress is feeble and lacks merit. BJD spokespersons (including MPs) have started mentioning economic blockade such as stopping coal transport and rail movement as a way to make the center take notice of Orissa’s genuine grievances in the HRD arena.
May 21st, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
Sometimes people question that how an IIT in Orissa is going to help Orissa. Earlier we had given some arguments in regards to this. A recent Economic times article bolsters our contention and gives current examples of companies that want to establish units in certain places because of the marquee institutions there.
May 21st, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
CALLING ATTENTION
Need to set up an Indian Institute of Technology in Orissa
1408 hours
SHRI BRAJA KISHORE TRIPATHY (PURI): Sir, I call the attention of the Minister of Human Resource Development to the following matter of urgent public importance and request that he may make a statement thereon:
“Need to set up an Indian Institute of Technology in Orissa as proposed in the Eleventh Five Year Plan and agreed to by the Government earlier.â€
Continue Reading May 19th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
Details of this scolarship is in this document. Following are some excerpts.
Title of Scheme: “Maulana Azad National Scholarship Schemeâ€
Objective of the Scheme: To recognize, promote and assist meritorious Girl
students belonging to national Minorities who can not continue their
education without financial support.
Purpose of Scholarship: Sholarship will be admissible for expenditure on Payment of School/College Fee, purchase of syllabus books, purchase of stationery/equipments required for the course & payment of Boarding/Lodging charges.
May 19th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
During the last several years several new plus two science colleges have opened in Orissa; especially in the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack area. Here is an attempt to make a list for the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack area, as I am more familiar with it. (I will appreciate if the readers can point to the ones I am missing so that we can create a more comprehensive list.) I start with the plus two programs that have been there for some time.
Continue Reading May 19th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
Sri Sri University is planned to be established in Naraj (Cuttack) near Bhubaneswar, Orissa. It will be established by the Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir (SSRVM) Trust, the educational wing of the Art of Living. I am in touch with a couple of people associated with the Sri Sri University project. I have requested them for more information (plans, time lines etc.) on the project. If and when I receive them I will post it here.
So far the only information that is available on this are the ones in the news items about the MOU, and its wikipaedia entry.
May 18th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
Dear Readers of this site:
Lalit Patnaik, the working president of Agami Orissa met the CM as well as minister Chandrasekhar Sahu. They both highly appreciated what we common people have been doing on the IIT issue. They suggested that we should do that even more vigorously. It was conveyed that at the PM level the efforts of common people have a much bigger impact than efforts by party cadres. Hence my appeal to all of you to write or fax letters to the PM and copy it to to the CM as well as minister Chandrasekhar Sahu. Sample copies of letters are available at http://iitorissa.org.
Relevant addresses and fax numbers:
May 18th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
Sambada reports that WIPRO will visit SCS College Puri for campus selection. They will conduct a test for students in Maths, Computer Science, Statistics, Electronics, IT and Physics.
May 18th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
New Indian Express reports that:
A release issued by Sahu‘s office stated that Sahu had also proposed to the Textile Minister for a National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) centre at Bhubaneswar.
The proposal was accepted by Vaghela who promised to open the centre.
The news item also states that the center has decided to establish IIHT (Indian Institute of Handloom Technology) in Baragarh and minister Chandrasekhar Sahu’s office issued a release to that effect. The IIHT part is somewhat old news. The NIFT news, if true, is most welcome. However, if these small budgeted institutes are in lieu of an IIT then minister Sahu is selling Orissa cheap. He should not think that Orissans are so gullible that they would be happy to lose a 1000-4000 crore IIT and instead get 5-10 crore type institutes.
May 18th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
New Indian Express and Samaja report that the CM has again written to Dr. Birla for a BITS Pilani campus in Orissa and also for the proposed IIM like institute of management that Dr. Birla wants to establish.
May 18th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
A PIB press release says among other things:
Shri Singh also informed that Parliament has also approved the Bill seeking to cover all National Institutes of Technology (NITs). They would be accorded status of institutes of national importance.
This is good news, as this may somewhat prevent the proposed IIESTs to have a higher status than the NITs, as IIESTs were to be accorded the status of “institutes of national importance.” Among the proposed IIESTs, IT-BHU is currently better than most or perhaps all the NITs; but many of the NITs are currently better than the other proposed IIESTs.
May 18th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
Sambada has a nice analysis on how Arjun Singh has hoodwinked CM Naveen Patnaik. The main point is that in the Lok sabha one of the HRD minister already said that the MHRD has already sent in its recommendation on the IITs in the 11th plan to the planning commission. So Arjun Singh’s assurance to reconsider when sending his recommendation to the planning commission for the 11th plan does not make any sense. He has already made his recommendation! If he had said he will reconsider MHRD’s decision then it would have made sense. But he did not say that!
Sambada follows up with the above opening with an analysis of how MHRD has been biased against Orissa during the last UPA term. This analysis and a similar analysis by Samaja (both were probably fed by Tathya.in) are based on the initial tabulation of fully MHRD funded marquee institutions in our article “MHRD discriminates against Orissa: You be the judge!”
May 17th, 2007
Author : Chitta Baral
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