Odisha HRD

Appeal to readers: need your urgent help on the IIT issue

Dear all:

I was told that the CM’s office has not sent a letter to the PM after the announcement of 5 more new IITs were made. This while, other states have staked their claim. He was supposed to have sent a letter a month back, but apparently he has not sent it.

Apparently his office can not decide which one of the options to pursue: upgrade Burla (300 crores); IIT KGP campus in BBSR (800 crores);  greenfield IIT 1000-4000 crores.

I can not believe that they are that indecisive.

Please send a short email immediately to the CM cmo@ori.nic.in withh cc to Industry Secretary indsec@ori.nic.in and urge them that the CM must send a letter to the PM on a new IIT followed by a vision document.

best regards
Chitta

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Follow-up to this: I had made the above appeal by email to certain groups. In response, many of you sent the mail on this. Thank you very much. I am being told that the emails have made the cmo office take notice. See the mention in http://tathya.in/story.asp?sno=1235

My purpose of writing this is to convey that your emails are not thrown away without reading. They are being read and not thrown away. How else a journalist will get hold of them and write about it?

I hope they will take action soon.

Please participate in such email writing, if the cause resonates with  you.

best regards
Chitta

3 comments October 1st, 2007

NRO appeal Naveen on IIT: Tathya.in

Following is the article on this at Tathya.in.

Leading Non Resident Oriyas (NROs) have requested Naveen Patnaik to claim for a Green field Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Orissa.

Mandarins in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) are busy in sorting out a number of e-mails that flooded from various parts of the Globe.

All most all the e-mail senders have raised serious concern over the indecision over demanding an IIT for the state, when the Prime Minister announced that there will be 8 IITs in the country.

While addressing the nation on 15 August Dr.Man Mohan Singh announced that five more IITs will be established in addition to the newly proposed three IITs in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan.

While other states have already staked their claims for IIT including Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, Orissa is yet to ask for the same.

“Unless we do the same, we will lose out”, lamented ….

“The Chief Minister must immediately send a letter to the Prime Minister followed up by a vision document”, said …

Joining the issue Priya Ranjan Mahapatra, President of the Orissa Society of Americas (OSA), New York chapter said in the past Orissa has made several different proposals to the Centre.

The proposals including upgrading University College of Engineering (UCE) Burla to an IIT with a budget of about Rs. 300 crores, an IIT Khragpur campus in Bhubaneswar of a budget about Rs.800 crores and a new Greenfield IIT having a budget of Rs. 2000-4000 crores were demanded earlier.

But now we must demand for a Greenfield IIT, said Mr.Mahapatra.

Priyadarshan Patra, Secretary OSA has echoed in the same line and asked Mr.Patnaik to stake the claim immediately in an e-mail.

Dr.Patra has written to the Chief Minister reminding to push the Greenfield IIT in Orissa as that involves the largest amount of investment.

Professor Gopal Mohanty from Canada has also sent an e-mail to the CM and has advised him to act decisively over the issue.

The list is unending, said a senior official in the CMO.

Expressing concern over the issue, leading NRO Dhirendra Kar has ringed up Members of Parliament, the top mandarins of the CMO and state secretariat to act immediately over the issue.

Mr.Kar said that we just have to make sure that the Greenfield location is not exactly in Bhubaneswar but about 100 km away from it in South Orissa.

So that later we can ask for an IIT Kharagpur extension centre at Bhubaneswar, said Mr.Kar.

October 1st, 2007