Earlier, based on a tathya.in report, we mentioned IIIT Bhubaneswar getting AICTE approval to start M.Tech classes. As per a New Indian Express report today, IIIT is hoping to start classes in November after getting the final AICTE approval. The FAQ section in the IIIT Bhubaneswar website also supports that.
2 comments September 3rd, 2007
The following is from the NISER web pages, particularly from this page.
General information regarding admission
Admission and registration to NISER is scheduled on 10th Sept. 2007 at 10 a.m. The inauguration of the academic programme of NISER will be held at 5 p.m. on 10Sept. 2007. Students have been allotted the stream of their first choice provisionally. The final allotment of streams will be done at the end of the first year based on their overall academic performance in semester I and semester II. Students will receive scholarship at the rate of Rs. 3,000/-per month.
All the students will have to register for all the courses which are to be credited by all the entrants to NISER’s 5-year integrated M.Sc. programme. The details of course descriptions are being posted in the webpage of NISER.
All the students are required to bring with them at the time of admission the originals of the following documents:
(a) Class X and Class XII Mark Sheets,
(b) Class X certificate,
(c) Caste / Tribe certificate (in case of SC/ST candidates).
In addition they should also bring four passport size photographs and two stamp size photographs and a Demand Draft for Rs. 13,000/= (Rs. 7,000/-for SC/ST students) towards payment of tuition fee, caution money and mess advance. The DD should be drawn in favour of NISER, payable at Bhubaneswar.
The selected students are required to deposit tuition fee and other charges latest by September 14, 2007 failing which they will forfeit their seat in NISER.
Hostel accommodation
All the students will be provided hostel accommodation. They are expected to register for the hostel accommodation at the time of admission. Details about the availability of hostel accommodation for boys and girls will be posted on the web soon.
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Admission list for NISER 2007 -08 |
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Dt. of Int.
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Name
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Town
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Category
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Gender
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General / Open Category
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1
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27/08/07
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Siddharth Satpathy
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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M
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2
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28/08/07
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Alokananda Ray
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Kolkata
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Gen
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F
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3
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30/08/07
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Sailen Kumar Bana
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Ganjam
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Gen
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M
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4
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27/08/07
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Amritansh Vats
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Deoghar
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Gen
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M
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5
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27/08/07
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Manoranjan Mishra
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Sambalpur
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Gen
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M
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6
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29/08/07
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Jayanth K. Ajay
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Thrissur
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Gen
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M
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7
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30/08/07
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Mahima Sneha
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Ghaziabad
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Gen
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F
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8
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31/08/07
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Ved Prakash
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Ranchi
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Gen
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M
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9
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31/08/07
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Sharmistha Sahoo
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Cuttack
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Gen
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F
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10
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29/08/07
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Ashish Kumar Pandey
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Ballia
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Gen
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M
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11
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31/08/07
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Sambhab Mohapatra
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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M
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12
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29/08/07
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Anshuman Kumar
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Patna
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Gen
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M
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13
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31/08/07
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Subhransu Sekhar Sahoo
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Jajpur
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Gen
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M
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14
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27/08/07
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Debajyoti Manadhata
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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M
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15
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28/08/07
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Adithya Kuchibhotla
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Secunderabad
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Gen
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M
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16
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30/08/07
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Neeraj Kumar Rai
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Itarsi
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Gen
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M
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17
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31/08/07
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Simrit Kaur Arora
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Delhi
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Gen
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F
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18
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27/08/07
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Deovrat
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Ranchi
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Gen
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M
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19
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27/08/07
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Mohit Soni
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Ajmer
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Gen
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M
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20
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30/08/07
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Parul Sood
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Chamba
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Gen
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F
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21
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31/08/07
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Sneha Chaubey
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Ranchi
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Gen
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F
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22
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29/08/07
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Gyanadutta Swain
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Jajpur
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Gen
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M
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23
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31/08/07
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Swagat Sanket Priyadarsini |
Khurda
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Gen
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M
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24
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31/08/07
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Vaisakh Mohan K.
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Thrissur
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Gen
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M
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25
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27/08/07
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Arnab Saha
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Bhubaneswar
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SC
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M
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26
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28/08/07
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Udaya Maurya
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Jabalpur
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Gen
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M
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27
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30/08/07
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Monalisa Behera
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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F
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28
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31/08/07
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Somnath Chakraborty
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Bhubaneswar
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Gen
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M
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29
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30/08/07
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Riju Banerjee
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Kolkata
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Gen
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M
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30
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30/08/07
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Rohit Pathak
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Bahraich
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Gen
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M
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31
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31/08/07
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Sayani Mukherjee
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Hooghly
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Gen
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F
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PD Category
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58
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27/08/07
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Mritunjay Kumar Verma
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Ballia
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Gen / PD
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M
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ST Category
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35
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27/08/07
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Bhupendra Singh Nagnyal
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Sultanpur
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ST
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M
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66
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29/08/07
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Chandan Sona
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Samastipur
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ST
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M
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67
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30/08/07
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Mukesh Johnson Kujur
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Bhubaneswar
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ST
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M
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SC Category
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37
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28/08/07
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Amit Roy
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Gaya
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SC
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M
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48
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29/08/07
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Archana Kumari Raut
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Bhubaneswar
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SC
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F
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78
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30/08/07
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Pubali Mandal
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N.24-Paragana |
SC
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F
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82
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30/08/07
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Rewati Raman Ujjwal
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Jaipur
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SC
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M
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84
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31/08/07
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Sasmita Behera
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Angul
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SC
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F
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91
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30/08/07
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Rakesh Kumar Majhi
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Cuttack
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SC
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M
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5 comments September 3rd, 2007
September 2nd, 2007
(Update on June 17 2008: For guidance on what you can get with your Orissa JEE rank in 2008, please see https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/1185 I do not have more information than that.)
See http://www.jeeorissa.com/newsfiles/news_23.htm. Following is its content as of now. (As always, please check the original source for up-to-date or corrected -if any- information.)
JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION-2007, ORISSA
COUNSELLING-CUM-ADMISSION FOR VACANT NRI/JEE/AIEEE/AIPMEE/AIPDEE QUOTA SEATS
As per approved provisions of the Government the counselling-cum-admission for vacant NRI/JEE and AIEEE/AIPMEE/AIPDEE quota seats for different courses will be held as noted below.
Venue: OUAT Conference Hall (Swaminathan Hall)
Schedule of Counselling-cum-Admission
Session Timing- Reporting Time: Session 1-
All Candidates are required to bring the following documents to the counselling: (i) Original rank card (AIEEE/AIPMEE/ AIPDEE) or registration card for JEE admitted candidates or downloaded rank card for JEE extended merit-list candidates, (ii) All their certificates and mark-sheets starting from 10th standard with one set of Xerox copies of each, (iii) SLC/CLC in original (iv) Certificate from the head of the Institution last attended (Appendix V in JEE Counselling-cum-admission Instructions available in our website: www.jeeorissa.com, (v) Two Bank drafts of Rs.16,000/- and Rs.200/- in favour of “JEE-2007” payable at Bhubaneswar ; Rs.200/- draft only for JEE admitted candidates, (vi) Valid NATA score card for candidates seeking admission to Architecture (vii) Permanent resident/nativity certificate for candidates seeking admission to MBBS/BDS course.
Chairman, JEE-2007, Orissa
42 comments September 2nd, 2007
Following is from Tathya.in.
Venue for counseling will be the Swaminathan Hall of OUAT, Bhubaneswar. The counseling of MBA and MCA will be notified shortly.
Counseling Schedule Date
Programme
5th & 6th September AIPMT, vacant seats of MBBS/BDS 7th to 12th September AIEEE and vacant seats of Architecture 13th of September Vacant seats of JEE 14th and 15th September Vacant seats of Pharmacy-JEE
81 comments September 2nd, 2007
Dharitri and Sambada report that the Department of Industries, Government of Orissa has a notification that the second round of JEE counseling will be done during September 4th and 5th. Neither article says where. Tathya.in has many reports on the reason behind the delay. Following are from Sambada and Dharitri, respectively.
46 comments September 1st, 2007
Following are some excerpts from a New indian Express report.
If things move in the right direction, the Institute of Management and Information Technology (IMIT) here, could have a new look replete with infrastructural adequacies.
Biju Patnaik University of Technology Vice- Chancellor Omkarnath Mohanty announced here on Thursday that the ailing institution would have a new campus, land for which is being scouted at Naraj, in the vicinity of the proposed second campus of the Ravenshaw University and the Law University.
However, before that the existing building of the Institute would be renovated and the classrooms spruced up for the comfort of the students. The move to renovate and modernise the institution came as students went on a strike on Thursday over the issue.
The VC also said the college, which offered three-year MCA course and MBA would be provided with 55 computers within a month, 17 of which would be available within 10 days. It presently has 25 computers, all of them outdated.
Further, only 18 of them are functional. Internet facilities would be provided at the earliest The college would also have its library refurbished and computerised. For the first time, the Government-run institution would also have a functional placement cell.
I hope the above happens.
9 comments August 31st, 2007
ITER had earlier advertised for its M. tech program. Today there is the following new ad.
August 30th, 2007
Satyabhama Devi College for hearing impaired
August 29th, 2007
7 comments August 29th, 2007
Following is a rejoinder to a recent Hindu article titled "Vedanta University: a flawed pipe dream," written by Philip G. Altbach.
While it is possible that Vedanta University, may not turn out as envisioned, it is definitely not a flawed pipe dream. We now show why some of the
arguments given in the above article is flawed.
1. This article talks about $1 billion (the number $3 billion is thrown as an afterthought towards the end of the article) and how it is not a lot money. First, Vedanta University folks have talked about $3 billion, not $1 billion. The $1 billion number is the number that Mr. Agrawal has pledged to contribute; not the number he thinks the university needs. He thinks the later number to be $3 billion. If one wonders where the rest of the $2 billion is supposed to come, then there are two likely sources: (i) the tuition paid by the students and (ii) the use of the real estate in the planned city around the Vedanta University.
Next, lets look at the budget of some of the existing Indian institutions:
What Vedanta University folks have said is that they will spend $1 billion in the initial phase (i.e. Rs 4000 crores) and $3 billion (Rs 12,000 crores) over the next 10-15 years.
Based on the estimates about Rs 4000 crores can be used to build two new IITs (1000 crore*2) + two new IISERs (500 crores*2) + two new central universities (300 crores*2) + two new IIMs (150 crores estimate) + a new National Institute of Design (100 crores estimate). The recurring cost of these would be at 2006-07 estimates would be 2 IITs (200 crores total), two IISERs (200 crores total), two central universities (200 crores), two IIMs (30 crores), an NID (12 crores) = 650 crores. That is about 650/(8000) = 8.125% of the remaining $2 billion of the Vedanta University estimate which is a fairly small percentage of interest. (The Indian market has been making much more in recent years.)
2. The article says: "No research university in the world has 100,000 students or even anything close."
As per, http://www.osu.edu/osutoday
| Arizona State University, Main Campus | 51,612 |
| University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 51,175 |
| The Ohio State University | 50,504 |
| University of Texas, Austin | 49,696 |
| University of Florida | 49,693 |
| Michigan State University | 45,166 |
| Texas A&M University, College Station | 44,910 |
| University of Illinois, Urbana | 41,862 |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | 41,447 |
| Pennsylvania State University, University Park | 40,709 |
As per http://www.asu.edu/enroll/news
So Vedanta’s goal of 100,000 students around the same time is not that different.
3. Location: It seems the author does not have much idea about the location. The Vedanta University location is about 30 miles from the outer periphery (read Khurda) of Bhubaneswar metropolitan area (the capital of Orissa) . Bhubaneswar is very well connected with the rest of the country both by train ( BBSR , Khurda Rd Schedules, Puri Schedules) and by plane and it is expected to have international flights within a year or two . The Bhubaneswar metropolitan area has a current population of 1.6 million and at the rate it is growing (both in area and population) it is likely that by 2020 it will be more than 3 million and its periphery would be close to (if not completely engulfing) Vedanta University.
4. India is hungry for good higher education and people are willing to pay for it. May be the example of KIIT, Bhubaneswar (Orissa) will open the eyes of the author. KIIT was started in 1992 by three young people with an initial investment of few thousand rupees. In 15 years it has programs in multiple fields (engineering, management, medical science, Rural management, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Dentistry, Diploma, ITI, international high schoo l) and is a deemed university. The growth and revenue of ICFAI and Amity also illustrates the revenue potential. Although none of the above are research universities, Vedanta University can collect similar revenues and spend a big part of it in research.
So it is not unreasonable that Vedanta University will have enough students paying enough in tuition to sustain it. Moreover, one should not take the real estate aspect of Vedanta University lightly. With 6000 acres, there will be enough land left beyond the core university, to earn a handsome income, which can then be ploughed into Vedanta University’s research programs. Currently, Bhubaneswar is a destination for many IT companies for their development centers. It has the big 4 of India (Wipro, Infosys, TCS and Satyam), IBM and many small and medium sized IT companies. With a top-notch environment the research park around Vedanta university should be able to attract research divisions of international companies.
Bhubaneswar metropolitan area has 26 engineering colleges (at least 5 more will start operating in the coming year) , 7 existing universities, several more in the making, etc. etc. Please see the right column of https://www.orissalinks.com/ to get an idea of the existing and expected educational infrastructure of greater Bhubaneswar.
7 comments August 29th, 2007
Following is an extract from a report of The New Indian Express
Continuing its efforts towards capacity building of service providers (CBSP) in the unorganised sector, Indiatourism, the tourism promotion wing of the Central Government, is set to impart training on hospitality to 500 such persons in the State this year.
Indiatourism would undertake the training programme for the staff of small hotels, lodgings and guest houses in Puri and Konark.
Started in 2004, the CBSP scheme has covered 1,500 service providers in the first year, 700 in 2005 and 550 in 2006. The programme, which was primarily being conducted in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Puri would now be extended to Gopalpur, Rourkela and Sambalpur.
August 27th, 2007
The initial vice chancellor of BPUT was Prof. Damodar Acharya, whose success in having a fixed non-negotiable semester schedule for colleges under BPUT, brought him and BPUT a lot of kudos and he went on to become the AICTE Chair and now the director of IIT Kharagpur. Since then BPUT’s functioning has seen a decline. But this year the functioning of BPUT and Orissa JEE has reached the lowest point. While classes have already started for students admitted during the initial counseling phase, the second counseling is yet to start. The lastest news (as of writing this) in the Orissa JEE website says the following:
Due to some unavoidable circumstances
it is not possible to publish the venue and schedule of counselling
for vacant NRI / JEE and AIEEE / AIPMEE / AIPDEE quota seats on 25/08/2007.
However, the same will be published shortly.
Tathya.in has some behind the scene news. I suggest that the students frustrated by this write to the Chief Minister and the Industry Secretary. Ultimately they are the ones responsible for this mess. The Orissa govt. web page is http://orissagov.nic.in/ from where you can find the email addresses of the CM and the industry secretary. BPUT web page is http://www.bput.org/ which has some contact email addresses. Although one can blow off steam by writing in the comments section of this blog, I am not sure if any of the responsible person (CMO, Industry Secretary or BPUT officials) read these pages. May be writing to them directly (in a polite manner) will let them know how their inaction and mishandling is frustrating many students. Writing comments in Tathya.in may have some impact as many of the news items in Tathya.in are picked up by other media. For example, the Tathya.in article about student’s frustration appears in a slightly edited form in Pioneer (the link will disappear in a day though). Following is a screen copy.
2 comments August 27th, 2007
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