BJB Junior College Plus two science and arts merit list of students
BJB Junior College has put its plus two science and arts merit list of students in the web.
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Archive for July 16th, 2007
Yet another engineering college coming to Bhubaneswar
Indus College of Engineering has advertised for positions and mentions in its website that it has received letter of intent and waiting for letter of approval. Earlier we mentioned some of the other colleges that are listed in the BPUT 2007 counseling brochure for the first time. Indus does not appear there.
From the "about us" page of this college, I found out that it is being established by a trust led by Dr. Ravi Reddy. 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 become a good engineering college.
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Several NRIs including three US based professors starting an engineering college near Bhubaneswar
Several NRIs including three US based professors are starting an engineering college near Bhubaneswar. The college is tentatively named as Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology and a brief biography of its US based trustees is here. Business standard reports on this. Following are some excerpts.
Orissa is all set to have an all non-resident Indian (NRI) sponsored degree engineering college.
The new degree engineering college is being set up near Khandagiri on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar by seven US-based NRIs. The Orissa government is actively promoting the endeavour. …
The NRIs are all professors and analysts from different US-based IT institutions and colleges. The Orissa government has allotted 20-acres of land near Khandigiri to the seven-member consortium for setting up the engineering college.
… state IT minister Surya Narayan Patro said, "the seven US-based NRIs have long approached us for setting up the degree college. Finally the government has decided to provide land for the venture".
According to Patro, "the engineering college would shortly be set up and construction work would begin soon."
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Orissa’s dismal performance in IIT entrance examinations; no one cares
The Telegraph has an article titled "IIT wake-up bell for backbencher Bengal" where it rues the low performance of students from Bengal in the IIT entrance exams. It concludes with: "Fewer students from Bengal in the IITs and IIMs mean fewer decision makers of tomorrow from Bengal." Orissa has been doing much worse than Bengal, but hardly anyone in Orissa is worried about it. Its time decision makers in Orissa, start worrying about it and taking corrective actions.
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Regional College of Management plans campuses in Dubai, Jamshedpur and Delhi
Bhubaneswar based Regional College of Management plans a campus in Dubai. Business standard reports on this. Following are some excerpts.
Orissa’s oldest management college, Regional College of Management (RCM) is planning an overseas campus at Dubai. The campus, in all likelihood, would be set up by 2009 with an investment of Rs 10 crore.
… "Setting up of the Dubai campus is in an advanced stage of negotiation. We are confident it would fructify shortly", he added.
For setting up the Dubai campus, RCM authorities have already started teaching Arabic to students at the institute’s School of Languages. About 35-40 students are currently taking training in Arabic language to suit the requirements of Dubai.
RCM, meanwhile, has also started tying up with different Dubai-based firms for finding placements for students.
"Within the next two years we would comfortably be able to manage high placements in Dubai from our College," says Pal. These are mostly in the areas of retail management.
Alongside, RCM is planning to set up two management colleges at Jamshedpur and Delhi. This would take up an investment of Rs 10 crore. Pal said that the college already has an annual fund reserve of over Rs 5 crore. We would utilise the fund for the new colleges and the remaining would be sourced through bank loans.
… In Master of Computer Application (MCA) , RCM has achieved a 100% placement, with almost 85% of its students placed in top IT companies of Bangalore.
July 16th, 2007
ASBM (Asian School of Business Management)’s dream
ASBM plans to start an engineering college in the coming year and beyond that dreams of becoming a private university approved by the state. Following are some excerpts of a Business standard report on this.
Bhubaneswar-based Asian School of Business Management (ASBM) is setting up a full-fledged degree engineering college, to be christened ASBM Institute of Technology (ASBMIT), from the next academic session of 2008-09. …
Details of the project is being worked by the Hyderabad based ZCS Consulting Limited. The college building would also be set up by another Hyderabad based construction company – Arunoday Construction.
Alongside, the B-school is also setting up a new Undegraduate (UG) Campus on a 25-acre plot adjoining to its existing campus at Chandaka on the outskirts of the Temple City.
The UG campus would be housing ASBMIT, ASBM School of Information Technology, Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) discipline and junior college for plus 2 commerce course. …
All the decisions were taken at ASBM’s Board of Governors (BoG) meeting on July 2, 2007.
…, " a total of around Rs 20 crore would be invested in future for setting up the degree engineering college, school of information technology and other courses like BBA and plus 2 commerce".
With the higher education department of the Orissa government already announcing that provisions are being kept in the state for setting up 6 private universities, Pattanayak said, "ASBM’s name figures prominently among them and we are awaiting the government approval".
As for the engineering course, it would have four streams – electronics and telecommunication ( E&TC), electronics and electrical engineering ( E&E), Computer Science and Information Technology ( IT).
During the first academic year 240 students would be admitted to the engineering degree course. The School of Information Technology would be having a 2-year course where the basic focus would be on Information Technology (IT) management. The end view for the school is to get comfortable placements for students in different IT multinationals. ...
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