XLRI agrees to Andhra invitation for a campus in Hyderabad
September 23rd, 2010
(Thanks to Deba Nayak for the pointer.)
Following is an excerpt from a report in Telegraph.
… Andhra Pradesh chief minister K. Rosaiah should personally request it to open its second campus in Hyderabad. The chief minister, in his August 18 letter, also promised all support from the government.
XLRI authorities are elated to be invited to Cyberabad, the latest sobriquet that stole the thunder of its earlier, more traditional one — City of Pearls.
Director Father E. Abraham accompanied by an XLRI team visited Hyderabad to get a full picture. “This move is in mutual interest for the Andhra government and XLRI. It is a recent development and a lot of things have to be finalised. But the Andhra government will support us in areas such as land acquisition,” said dean (academics) Pranabesh Ray.
In fact, the southern state has set the ball rolling, having almost finalised 75 acres in Hyderabad for the XLRI campus at Jawahar Nagar, close to BITS, Pilani. Sources said a US-based company has also evinced interest to invest in the project estimated to exceed Rs 100 crore.
For now, slow and steady is XLRI’s mantra. The dean said that once the Hyderabad campus got operational, it would first offer 60 seats for business management course. Its famed personnel management and industrial relations course will follow. …
Andhra Pradesh is good at this. In the last several years they invited and suceeded in getting a BITS Pilani campus and TIFR campus in Hyderabad and a BARC campus in Visakhapatnam. We should learn from them. This is beyond the central govt. institutes such as an IIT in Hyderabad and a SPA in Vijaywada.
In contrast our own XIM wants to become a university and have courses in arts and commerce (areas where we do not have any nationally ranked colleges) and our government is giving it a hard time.
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1. bijoy | September 23rd, 2010 at 10:07 am
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2. Devasis | September 24th, 2010 at 11:55 am
We will need to make our Govt see reason otherwise our neighbour will be the rischest state and we the pooerest be it in capital or knowledge.
Unfortunatley we are not yet united in this front. We need to rise beyond our crab mentality.
I will endevour to impress upon the Higher Education team whenever I meet them next