CM Writes to PM on the IIT shifting issue
February 1st, 2007
Various news papers report that the CM has written to the PM on the IIT shifting issue. Following is some excerpts from the New Indian Express article.
BHUBANESWAR: Taking strong exception to the reported move of the Centre to shift the establishment of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) from Orissa to Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that a greenfield IIT should be sanctioned for the State.The Centre had announced establishment of three greenfield IITs in the country during the Eleventh Five Year Plan. Orissa was included in this proposal, which was also announced by Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development MM Fatmi on August 28 last year at Patna.Describing the move by the Centre to establish the IITs in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan as ‘shocking’, the Chief Minister has sought the intervention of the Prime Minister in setting up such an institute in Orissa. …
This news also appears in Pioneer, Samaja, Sambada and Dharitri (2). Telegraph has an article on the subject with some context, but the telegraph article is a bit erroneous as it does not mention NISER and the IISER issue correctly. A first response by the Congress party appears in a news item by NewIndiaPress.
(The CM’s letter follows.)
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