54 new residential schools in Adivasi areas: Samaja
December 1st, 2007
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IIM Shillong to start classes in June 2008
Following is an excerpt from a news report in Telegraph.
The seventh Indian Institute of Management will begin its first academic session next June on a temporary campus in Shillong that previously housed the North Eastern Hill University.
Union human resource development minister Arjun Singh will lay the foundation stone of the permanent campus of the IIM, named after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, tomorrow.
Chief minister D.D. Lapang and Union minister for tribal affairs P.R. Kyndiah will be present at the ceremony.
“While construction of the permanent structure is going on, the institute will start functioning at the Mayurbhanj complex in Nongthymmai,” Rathindra Nath Datta, ex-chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers (India), who has been appointed the chairman of the board of governors of the institute, said.
The Meghalaya government has provided 120 acres of land free of cost in the new satellite township of Mawdiangdiang, 20km from Shillong, for the permanent campus.
The institute will get a grant of Rs 120 crore for non-recurring expenditure over five years and Rs 45 crore for recurring expenditure over six years.
Ashok Kumar Dutta, who is at present the director of Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management in Calcutta, is the frontrunner for the post of IIM director.
A post-graduate diploma course in business management will begin in June with an annual intake of 60 students in the first two years. This will be doubled in the third year and increased by another 60 in the sixth.
December 1st, 2007
Concerns about NISER, Bhubaneswar; DAE should pay urgent attention to NISER
tathya.in first published this. Pioneer has also published a version of it, which is given below.
December 1st, 2007
Centurion Institute of Technology : a new private engineering college coming up in Jatni
The news item in tathya.in http://tathya.in/story.asp?sno=1399 mentions that Centurion Institute of Technology is coming up in Jatni near Bhubaneswar. This will be established by the group that runs JITM and CSREM in Parlekhemundi. I have met one of the promoters Dr. Mukti Kanta Mishra and I think this will become a good engineering college. The following concept picture is from http://www.jitm.org/images/cit.jpg.
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