Kapil Sibal’s trip to US to invite foreign universities to India and Orissa’s dwindling window of opportunity
November 5th, 2009
Update:
- Telegraph: 3 top US universities have shown interest in mentoring the 14 "world-class" universities that India aims to establish.
- Yale Daily News: Yale University is exploring the possibilities in this regard.
HRD Minister Mr. Kapil Sibal spent last several days in the US trying to convince top US universities to collaborate and open branches in India. His talk at MIT is here http://techtv.mit.edu/tags/5218-sibal/videos/4310-mit-india-forum-2009. (Thanks to a commentator at Abi’s blog for the pointer.)
I wish some people of Orissa had not created road block for Vedanta University. If it had made progress as scheduled then it would have put the Bhubaneswar-Puri area in the map of top knowledge centers of India and there would have been a higher chance of some good foreign (especially US) universities thinking about having some operations in Orissa. As it stands now Orissa may lose the window of opportunity it has. Unless Orissa quickly positions itself among the top knowledge centers of India, the top foreign universities will give it a skip and it may again take a long long time for Orissa to catch up.
Entry Filed under: Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri- Khurda area (1),Foreign Universities in India,Universities of Innovation,Vedanta University, Puri
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1. pabitra kumar barad | November 5th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Dear Chitta sir,
I am agree with u on the point regarding Vedant University.Land acquistion is a major obstacle on the way of mega projects.Govt. should take appropriate measure on this issue.Administration should reach to people and convince them.The Virodhi Vistapan manch should adress the real problem of people and try to solve it in a peaceful manner rather in denial mood.They should think about the all round development of people.I can not understand why people like Medha patekar and other international prize winner oppose it.It is better for them not to interfer in our state matter.I also agree with your proposal in article Mineral resource to Human Resourcce.The people representative should make their demand like of MP Mr. Bhakta Das.