Agriculture College to come up in Bhawanipatna
Following is an excerpt from a report in tathya.in.
… The Chief Minister decided to assuage the hurt feelings of the people of Kalahandi by announcing two professional colleges in the district.
Mr.Patnaik chairing the high level meeting here on 27 December announced to set up an engineering and a new agriculture college at Bhawanipatna.
…Sensing the popular demand for more educational facilities in the district, Mr.Patnaik declared that “there will be an agriculture and engineering college at Bhawanipatna”.
Funds will be located from Special Problem Fund (SPF) for both these institutions.
Both the colleges were provided Rs.5 crore each to take up preliminary works.
The engineering college will have 240 seats, where as the agriculture college will accommodate 48 students, revealed an official.
There are 63 engineering colleges, where as this will be the third agriculture college in the state, said he.
Two agriculture colleges exist at Bhubaneswar in Khurda district and Chiplima in Sambalpur district.
The College of Agriculture, Bhawanipatna will be under the Orissa University of Agriculture Technology (OUAT).
… Mr.Patnaik also asked Dr.Arabinda Padhee, Director Agriculture to take up the matter with VC OUAT for facilitating the students to enroll them in 2009-10.
Dr.Padhee gave out details on the planning process on establishing the new institution.
Tarun Kanti Mishra, Development Commissioner who attended the meeting will co-ordinate the land alienation and construction work in a faster manner.
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