Cabinet has decided to establish IIESTs across the country: Union Minister for State for Science and Technology
November 2nd, 2010
Following is an excerpt from a report in Indian Express.
“To boost innovation in basic sciences, the government is keen on funding and establishing world class institutes. We have recently established more IITs, IISERs and institutes in pharmaceutical science. On the same lines, the Cabinet has decided to establish IIESTs across the country,” said Prithviraj Chavan, Union Minister for State for Science and Technology.
He was inaugurating a seminar on Nano Technology: Materials and Composites for Frontier Applications, organised by Bharati Vidyapeeth University. Chavan did not commit that CoEP would feature on the list of five colleges to be converted into IIESTs, but said there was a possibility because the college has been trying to get deemed university status.
Odisha should remind the central government regarding its earlier request to upgrade VSSUT, Burla to an IIEST.
Entry Filed under: IIESTs,Sambaplpur-Burla-Jharsuguda-Baragarh area (4),VSS University of Technology (formerly UCE Burla)
8 Writeup
1. preeti | November 3rd, 2010 at 11:54 am
sir you are not given any comment on nit and rourkela airport expansion in your forum.
2. Chitta Baral | November 3rd, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Its in the other page. See http://www.orissalinks.com/orissagrowth/archives/4308
3. ashburn | November 3rd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
all said and done i feel that segregating different branches of education and establishing them as somewhat exclusive institutions does not serve the purpose. i think government should focus more on university based education where focus is on interdisciplinary activity. also i think establishing few institutes of national importance makes the whole system imperialistic for example one exam separates the whole science stream to iitians and non-iitians. i also feel government should do away with allocating fixed number of seats to every college. the no. of seats should be flexible .
4. Abhisek | November 3rd, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Why not a Green field IIEST, if the centre has no preconditions like elevation of an existing Institute?
In Orissa all major cities of the state except Berhampur have a University standard/multi-disciplinary Technological Institute. Bhubaneswar, Rourkela and Sambalpur cities have IIT, NIT and VSSUT respectively. Why not give a chance to Berhampur this time, which missed the IIT bus? The technical education map of Orissa would look only more balanced and egalitarian with this.
5. pabitra kumar barad | November 4th, 2010 at 12:26 am
Chitta sir,we are for a greenfield IIEST.The institution should be in bolangir or phulbani.as the 12th plan approaching we hahe to demand for an IIM.Why MR srikant jena is sielent about NIPER which is under his ministry.AP govt.is now setting the TISS, TIFR,BITS .whyour CM is not inviting such institutions.MDI is now opened its branch at WB.WE should also need MDI, NITIE type management institution.
6. SOURAV | November 5th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
AS A VSSUTIAN, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE VSSUT TO BE UPGRADED AS AN IIEST…IT WILL BE A LANDMARK IN THE INSTITUTE HISTORY AND THIS HISTORIC INSTITUTE TRULY DESERVES THIS ,WHICH NEARLY LOST IIT UP-GRADATION. VSSUT ROCKS!!!
7. preeti | November 10th, 2010 at 11:02 am
IIEST should go tribal areas like bolangir,kalahandi
8. rajat kumar mohapatra | November 10th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
sir
can you please tell us what to do??on every college of odissa they are taking 200 rs per back on bput sem exams but koustuv group is taking 260rs per subject…and when we are asking about it they are totally silent,even in the rasid they are showing it as 200…..is there any solution ,??