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Hospitality training for 500 persons in Orissa
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
BPUT, Orissa JEE Cordinators and the responsible Orissa government officials have created a mess
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