In Section 8.44 (page 174) of Volume 1 (Inclusive Growth) of the 11th Five Year Plan, the following is mentioned.
The DAE has also initiated the process for establishment of the NISER at Bhubaneswar, at par with the IISER to undertake integrated five-year Masters’ courses and integrated M.Sc–Ph.D. programme in core and emerging branches of science to provide world-class education to students.
February 10th, 2009
The locations mentioned above is mapped below in red. The villages where NISER will be located is marked in blue.
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NISER location consists of part of the four villages Bhimpur, Badanuagaon, Padanpur and Uparbasta. Three of those villages are shown in the map below.
February 10th, 2009
The site is http://academicearth.org/. Thanks to Abi for the pointer.
February 8th, 2009
(The PIB report is at http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=47274.)
The following is excerpted from a report in Hindu.
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved two more AIIMS-like medical institutions, one in West Bengal and the other in Uttar Pradesh, at a cost of Rs.823 crore each. The Cabinet also decided to upgrade five government medical colleges in five States to the level of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
Announcing this, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said: “The proposed institution in West Bengal will come up at Raiganj in North Dinajpur district. The site for the AIIMS-like college and hospital in UP has not yet been identified.”
Raiganj is represented in the Lok Sabha by the ailing Union Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi.
Each institution, to be set up under the second phase of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY), will have a 960-bed hospital and will provide health care facilities in 39 speciality or super-speciality disciplines.
There will be 500 beds for the medical college hospital, 300 for speciality or super-speciality, 100 for ICU or accident trauma, 30 for physical medicine and rehabilitation and 30 beds dedicated to Ayush (Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy).
The medical college will have a hundred under-graduate intake, besides facilities for imparting post-graduate or doctoral courses and a nursing college.
The Cabinet also approved upgrading of the government medical colleges in Amritsar (Punjab), Tanda (Himachal Pradesh), Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Nagpur (Maharashtra) and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University.
The upgrading of each of these medical colleges will be done at an estimated cost of Rs.150 crore. Of this, the Centre will contribute Rs.125 crore and a minimum of Rs.25 crore will be borne by the respective State governments.
In respect of Aligarh Muslim University, Rs.25 crore will be provided by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.
With these additions to the earlier list the state wise distributions of AIIMS and the proposed institutes are as follows:
| State |
New or existing AIIMS or AIIMS-like Institute and location [1 + 8 ]
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Upgradation [13 + 5] |
| Delhi |
AIIMS, Delhi |
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| Orissa |
Bhubaneswar |
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| Bihar |
Patna |
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| Madhya Pradesh |
Bhopal |
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| Uttarakhand |
Rishikesh |
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| Rajasthan |
Jodhpur |
|
| Chhatisgarh |
Raipur |
|
| West Bengal |
Raiganj (North Dinapur dist) |
Kolkata Medical College |
| Uttar Pradesh |
Place not decided |
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University (Phase 2)
|
| J & K |
|
Govt. Medical College, Jammu.
Govt Medical College, Srinagar
|
| Andhra Pradesh |
|
Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad
Sri Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati
|
| Tamil Nadu |
|
Govt. Medical College, Salem
Govt. Medical College, Madurai (Phase 2)
|
| Jharkhand |
|
Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS), Ranchi |
| Gujarat |
|
B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad |
| Karnataka |
|
Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore |
| Maharashtra |
|
Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Group Of Hospitals, Mumbai
Govt. Medical College, Nagpur (Phase 2)
|
| Kerala |
|
Medical College, Thrivananthapuram |
| Punjab |
|
Govt Medical College, Amritsar (Phase 2) |
| Himachal Pradesh |
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Govt Medical College, Tanda (Phase 2) |
| Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Goa, Haryana, |
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February 6th, 2009
The web page is http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/. Thanks to Prof. Ramachandra Rao for this pointer. The web sites of the new IITs are:
February 4th, 2009
Following is from PIB http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=47087.
The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of a new institute “National Institute ofAbiotic Stress Management” costing Rs. 73.50 crores in the 11th Plan.
Abiotic stresses like drought, temperature extremes, flood, salinity, mineral toxicity and nutritive deficiency are threatening agriculture production globally. India being a tropical country faces such abiotic stresses to a significant degree which has implications for maintaining national food security.
The National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management shall have a comprehensive mandate of characterization of the occurrence of various abiotic stresses in the country impacting agriculture on a continuous basis and carry out basic and strategic research that will lead to development of technologies for mitigation and adoptation of crops, livestock, horticulture, fisheries and micro organisms to such stresses. The important research programs would be in a matrix mode. Organizationally it is proposed that the institute shall conduct its research programmes through four schools viz; schools of drought stress management, atmospheric stress management, edaphic stress management and policy support research.
The institute, which will be located at Malegaon ( Baramati) in Maharashtra will have a deemed to be university status.
February 1st, 2009
Following is from a report in Pioneer.
… The State Higher Education Department has brought up a proposal for an ICFAI University Bill to the State Cabinet for its approval on Sunday.
This will be the third private university Bill to be presented to the State Legislative Assembly. Earlier, the Vedanta University and Sri Sri University Bills were presented in the legislature and are pending for their approval. The next Assembly session will begin from February 9.
According to sources, the ICFAI, which signed an MoU with the State Government on March 20, 2007 to set up a World Class Multidisciplinary University, is waiting for an exclusive Act. The ICFAI will set up a core campus near Jatni to cater to the needs of 1,000 students.
Its disciplines include Basic Science, Humanities, Engineering, Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Law, Bio-Sciences, Environmental Science and Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management and Media and Mass Communication.
The university, which has also come up with an investment of Rs 150 crore, will promote research by setting up Centres of Excellence in its disciplines. It will be a fully residential campus for the students and faculty members.
February 1st, 2009
Among the founding directors of all the new IITs, the founding director of IIT Bhubaneswar, Prof. Madhusudan Chakrabarti, seems to have the most administrative experience. His following interview to the IIT Kharagpur Scholars Avenue magazine shows his involvement in the expansion activities at IIT Kharagpur. It also shows his experience in dealing with tough issues.
February 1st, 2009
