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Orissa Cabinet approves the Vedanta University Bill; it will be placed in the next assembly session

August 5th, 2008

Following is an excerpt from a report in Pioneer.

 

For the first time, the State Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal for enactment of a law for establishment of a private university in the State.

The Vedanta University Act-2008, which received the Cabinet nod, will be placed in the State Legislative Assembly in its monsoon session beginning from August 20. The Anil Agarwal Foundation (AAF) has come up with a proposal to set up a world-class university with an investment of Rs 15,000 crore.

The multi-disciplinary, self-financed university will be set up with a modern self-contained township near Puri having a core campus to cater to the needs of 1 lakh students, 20,000 faculty members and a matching number of non-teaching staff. It will offer academic programmes like Basic Sciences, Humanities, Performing Arts, Law, Engineering, Medicines, Bio-Sciences, Business Management and Agriculture.

In order to allow it to function as a world-class university like Harvard, Oxford and Stanford Universities, the State Government will provide contiguous land of about 6,000 acres. Earlier, the AAF had asked for 10,000 acres, but due to unavailability of land the Government has agreed to provide 6,000 acres by the side of the Puri-Konark marine drive. …

Following is an excerpt from a report in Zee News.

 

The cabinet’s approval in this regard would be placed in the coming session of the Assembly as Vedanta University Bill-2008, sources said.

Describing the proposed private varsity to be developed by Vedanta Foundation subsequently known as Anil Agarwal Foundation, as an ‘ambitious project’, the cabinet approved the proposal, the first of its kind in the state.

The proposed multi-disciplinary university would be set up with a modern self contained township near Puri having core campus to cater to the needs of nearly one lakh students, 20,000 faculty members and matching number of non-teaching staff.

The varsity, which would offer academic programmes like basic science, humanities, performing arts, law, engineering, medicine, bio-science, business management and agriculture, would be self-financing.

"The state government will provide about 6,000 acres by way of acquisition and alienation," Chief Secretary Ajit Tripathy said.

… Replying to a query on the state’s control over the private university, Tripathy said the state might exercise any control on the affairs of the proposed university in the interest of the students as and when required.

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