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NISER’s plans

June 12th, 2009

Following are some excerpts from the news report in expressbuzz.com.

• The National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, is set to start PhD programmes from December this year.
• … It would be followed by an integrated PhD programme that would commence from August next year.
• … it plans to introduce new streams like Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environment Science and Computer Science by 2013.
• … the institution would move to its own campus at Jatni by 2013
• …. With the campus complete, the NISER would have about 1,000 UG and 700 PhD students along with 250 faculty members and 500 staff.
• … In the next two years, the intake would be 80 which would further go up to 200 in each wing by 2013.
• … Plans are also afoot to introduce a national combined entrance examination for NISER along with IISERs at Trivandrum, Bhopal, Mohali, Kolkata and Pune on the lines of IIT. At present, the IISERs are taking students from the extended merit list of IIT entrance examinations.
• NISER would also, from the next year, adopt one CBSE pattern school in the State to train its students to be absorbed in it for higher studies  

Following is an excerpt from a report in Orissadiary.

• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to lay the foundation stone for the new campus of the prestigious National Institute for Science Education and Research (NISER) near here next month. Though the exact date is yet to be finalised, the foundation stone for our own campus is likely to be laid by the Prime Minister by the second week of July, NISER director Prof T K Chandrasekhar told the media persons.

Following are excerpts from a report in Business Standard.

• The total cost of setting up the new campus is Rs 770 crore. Construction work on the new campus is expected to commence by February 2010.
• In the beginning NISER would be affiliated to Homi Bhabha National Institute, a deemed university within the Department of Atomic Energy, for the award of degrees. At a later stage it will seek UGC approval to get the status of a deemed university for awarding degrees on its own.

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