Orissa government mulls grading engineering colleges: Dharitri
September 12th, 2007
More details on the NITER proposal
More details are emerging on the NITER proposal. It seems it is only an Orissa govt. proposal. So it is far away from happening. At this point Orissa govt. should focus on getting one of the new IITs and should pursue NITER only after it gets an IIT. Following is a report on this from Samaja. (New Indian Express also has a report on it.)
2 comments September 10th, 2007
A collocated NITER with NISER?
Following is from Pragativadi. (Thanks to Purna babu for the pointer.) I hope this news is true and not some gossip by a govt. official. If it is true, I hope it happens in addition to an IIT.
September 8th, 2007
Newly AICTE approved Indus college of Engineering will take students through the upcoming Orissa JEE counseling: Ad in Samaja
5 comments September 7th, 2007
Templecity institute’s advertisement in Samaja
(Disclosure: The management of this institute has been in contact with me to be one of their academic advisors, a non-paid position)
September 6th, 2007
New Engineering Colleges in Orissa that have received AICTE approval since the last counseling may admit students
There are at least two engineering colleges that have received AICTE approval to start classes this year. The next round of counseling may include some seats for those colleges. It may not allow admission to all its seats as that would be unfair to students who participated in the last counseling and did not have the choice. So to be fair only the NRI quota part (and possibly the AIEEE part) of the seats of these college may be filled during the next round of counseling. This is unconfirmed news, so watch for any formal announcement. The two colleges in the Bhubaneswar area that I know to have received AICTE approval recently are:
- Templecity Institute of Technology
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Indus College of Engineering
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
(Disclaimer: I was invited today to join the advisory board of Templecity Institute of Technology. I am seriously considering it, as i know and like couple of the promoters. Currently I am in a similar capacity at Silicon and JITM. None of them pay me though; nor have they done any favor to any of my relatives, family members, acquaintances, friends etc. I do not expect any favor in the future either. I just give them advice and sometimes they use it.)
6 comments September 3rd, 2007
IMIT, Cuttack may see some improvement
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 advertises (in Samaja) for its M.Tech program again
ITER had earlier advertised for its M. tech program. Today there is the following new ad.
August 30th, 2007
Another new engineering college gets AICTE approval
The founders of this new engineering college, TempleCity Institute of Technology and Engineering, includes a founder of KIIT (not Achyuta Samanta) and a US based initial financier of KIIT who is also very well respected in the US Oriya community. At least one (not me) north American based Orissa origin professor is involved in this project. Thus I think this will turn out to be a good college.
August 24th, 2007
Indus College of Engineering receives AICTE approval for taking students from 2007-08
I got an email from Dr. Ravi Reddy, Director(Academic) and Trustee of Indus college of engineering informing me that their college has received AICTE approval for taking admission for academic year 2007-8. Earlier we covered them in https://www.orissalinks.com/?p=382 and https://www.orissalinks.com/?p=509. As I mentioned earlier, "Dr. Reddy is a B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and a Ph.D from University of Houston, USA. He was one of the main person at NIST, Berhampur. Based on this information, I think this will also become a good engineering college."
4 comments August 20th, 2007
JITM Students obtain scholarships from LBW trust of Australia
Following are excerpts from a report in Pioneer on this.
Thirteen students belonging to B Tech, +2 Science and ITI of JITM, Paralkhemundi, have been chosen by the LBW Trust, which is based in Sydney, Australia, having the website http://www.lbwtrust.com.au.
The scholarships will cover the respective tuition fees in different programmes. The support is initially for a year and would be continued based on the academic performance of the students.
The awardees also include three female students. It is expected that this support will assist the selected students greatly, who are from weak financial background though being meritorious. It is also expected to encourage other students to perform well academically in order to avail similar opportunities in the future.
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The LBW Trust was established last year with the purpose of providing education and training to impoverished and underprivileged people overseas and within Australia.Candidates for assistance by the trust would be chosen from cricket playing nations among developing countries as well as from Australia.
The trust hopes that these young men and women, who are sponsored by it, would in their turn play their part in the upliftment of their countries.
Interested students should go to the Contact Us pages of the trust and send a mail to them to find out more about this scholarship and how to apply for it.
1 comment August 14th, 2007
Samaja: Additional JEE list for leftover seats in Engineering, MBA, etc.
Samaja reports that BPUT will soon come up with an additional list and do additional round of counseling for that list to fill-up the left-over seats in Engineering, MBA etc. It says that out of a total 14,600 seats in engineering, of the 10,642 seats earmarked for JEE, 251 seats are left. Similarly, for MBA, out of 2500 seats, 1406 are earmarked for JEE and out of that 517 seats are left. In MBBS among the 300 seats in the private medical colleges, 210 are earmarked for JEE, and 143 seats are left. In architecture out of 119 seats 90 are left over. In BDS (dental) out of 350 seats 325 are left.
On AIEEE it mentions that the government will soon come up with the schedule. For AIEEE there are 2250 engineering seats, 325 MBA seats, 154 pharmacy seats, 325 MCA seats, 18 architect seats, 18 hotel management seats, 45 MBBS seats and 45 BDS seats.
In addition 15% seats are reserved for NRIs and they will be charged 4 times the amount charged for regular seats.
1 comment August 13th, 2007
Vedanta being asked for an engineering college in Kalahandi: finally a sensible approach
Often various sundry organizations oppose various industries that are coming up just for the heck of it. A better approach would be to make sure the industry does not adversely affect them and then convince the industry to do positive things for the area. The later includes setting up of engineering colleges and necessary infrastructure like township, roads, parks, playgrounds, schools, medical facilities etc. Finally such an approach is being taken by the Koshali Ekta manch vis-a-vis Vedanta and Kalahandi. Despite the fact that Vedanta is in the process of making a world class university near Puri, they should listen to this demand, if only to give value to this general approach. Moreover, making an engineering college, of the kind made by most private trusts in Orissa, does not cost much. One can start it with an initial budget of 10 crores and then it can become self -sustaining through student fees. So Vedanta should seriously consider this. Also, people in other areas where industries are coming up, or have come up should take a similar approach. For example, the people in Paradip and Kujanga, rather than being hostile to POSCO should negotiate with POSCO to establish a medical college & hospital and a top-notch engineering college like POSTECH in Korea, that was established by POSCO. Same with respect to the Tatas in Kalinganagar; people in Kalinganagar should negotiate with the TATAs to establish an engineering college and a medical college in Kalinganagar. The Mittals should be asked for the same in Patana, Keonjhar area; RSP/SAIL should be asked for the same in Rourkela; MCL+NTPC should be asked for the same in Talcher area and NALCO for the same in Anugul and Damanjodi.
Following is an excerpt of a Pioneer report that triggered the above thoughts.
Bhawanipatna: A meeting of the Koshali Ekta Manch has decided that a memorandum would be submitted on August 24 to Vedanta Alumina limited in order to establish an engineering college in Kalahandi. … Manch leaders Jagannath Mund, Govind Chandra Rath and Padma Kishore Pujari were present at the meeting.
1 comment August 13th, 2007
Orissa AIEEE Counseling
UPDATE on 17th Aug 2007: see https://www.orissalinks.com/?cat=106 , jeeorissa for some new information on this.
UPDATE on 16th Aug 2007: There has not been any definite news on this. For latest news see https://www.orissalinks.com/?cat=106 , jeeorissa, and aieee Orissa sites.
Following is Sambada’s report on it. I hope soon the official AIEEE Orissa site will have the additional details.
131 comments August 11th, 2007
Krupajal starts M.Tech program; has AICTE approval
Earlier we had listed the various colleges in Orissa that offer M.Tech programs. To that we can now add Krupajal which will offer 18 seats in two of its branches: Computer Sc. and Electronics and Telecom. Following is Krupajal’s ad in Samaja on this.
16 comments August 10th, 2007