Dr. Digambara Patra on lack of state funded higher education institutions in undivided Kalahandi, Balangir and Boudha-Kandhamal districts.
February 8th, 2007
Tathya.in has an article titled “Kalahandi Crying for Center of Higher Learning” which reports on Dr. Digambara Patra’s concerns. Following are some paragraphs from Dr. Patra’s recent mail to a newsgroup.
… Instead of looking at 30 districts, first the state government should focus on 13 undivided districts as there are still imbalances (I had made a table earlier on this or, one could also observe from your excellent and detail studied table at the end), for example, a cluster of undivided Kandhamal, Koraput, Kalahandi and Bolangir (total 10 district of the state out of 30 districts and covering 38% of land & 23% population of Orissa) does not have any type of government institutions like medical college, engineering college, state university etc, except few private engineering colleges located only in industrial towns such as Jeypore, Rayagada, Gunpur, and Koraput. (All of them are in undivided Koraput district as industrially it is bit developed unlike undivided Kandhamal, Bolangir and Kalahandi districts).
Kalahandi, Nuapada, Boud, Sonpur, Bolangir, Kandhamal and Nawrangpur districts do not have any private and government engineering colleges although area of this cluster would be near about 30% of Orissa.
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Beside central government (such as central university), the state government must have a role to do more in higher and technical education for these South-Western Orissa regions. Other wise it is just giving a message that KBK region were like a union territory as for every thing in the region the state government was only asking for central help without doing anything for the region on its own unlike for other regions.
Entry Filed under: Central University of Orissa, Koraput,General Colleges,KBK education