Following is an excerpt from a report in tathya.in.
The Chief Minister proposed that the Centre should invest in capacity building and establish an Institute of Urban Management & Governance in Odisha for the purpose.
Minister Urban Development appreciated the suggestions and assured that the Ministry would favorably consider the proposal of one-time grant to large villages.
He also assured that the proposal of the State for setting up of the Institute would be dealt with favorably and that alternatively he would look into opening of a branch of the National Institute of Urban Affairs in Odisha.
April 11th, 2011
Following is an excerpt from a report on Times of India regarding increase in the number of students appearing in IIT JEE from Odisha.
The number of IIT aspirants in Orissa saw a steady rise with nearly 40,000 students appearing for the joint entrance examination ( JEE) for the country’s premier institute on Sunday, officials said.
Registrar of IIT-Bhubaneswar Bata Kishore Ray said, "The number of aspirants from Orissa has gone up in the last couple of years, especially after IIT-B started operating from the city. …
… About 30,000 aspirants appeared from the state last year, he added.
… In the capital city alone, over 5,000 students appeared in 12 centres for one of the toughest competitive examinations in the country.
… Director of a city-based coaching centre Jyoti Ranjan Tripathy said good coaching facilities and number of successful students increasing every year has been motivating others to go for IIT. "In terms of coaching facilities, Bhubaneswar can be called the Kota of eastern India. Orissa has created some top rankers in IIT-JEE in the last few years and this has motivated more students."
As per a report in Economic Times, the total number of applicants for IIT JEE is 4,85,262.
Following is obtained from a Deccan Chronicle report, a TOI report and another TOI report:
- Total: 4,85,262 out of which 1,13,942 were girl applicants.
- SC – 47,479; ST – 19,305; OBC – 1,42,387 (TOI)
- Madras zone (Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala): about 68,500 out of which 20,546 were girls. (last year 65,650)
- Mumbai zone: about 85,260/68,735*
- Kanpur zone: around 80,400/63,661* (16,770 girls)
- Guwahati zone (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya and West Bengal): about 58,700.
- Kharagpur zone:??
- Delhi Zone: 71,353 (16,877 girls)
- Roorkee Zone: 16,976 girls
* Two newspapers give different numbers.
Assuming the numbers for Odisha are correct, it is a significant development in that 8.25% of the total applicants will be from Odisha. Note that Odisha’s population is 3.47% of the total population of the country.
Ofcourse, a more important aspect is the success in the exam, but significant increase in the applications is a good starting point. Some of the reason behind this increase are:
- More awareness due to IIT Bhubaneswar.
- The significant increase in the availability of coaching, including many nationally known coaching institutes opening their centers in Odisha, especially in Bhubaneswar. These include Careerpoint, FIITJEE, Narayana, Resonance and Vidya Mandir.
- The significant increase in the number of private +2 colleges across the state, some of which have ties with coaching classes.
Now lets hope a good number from Odisha succeed in IIT JEE. Currently Hyderabad and Kota are the places with the highest number of successful candidates. Following is an excerpt from a TOI report on that.
If JEE-2010 results are pored over, the maximum number of candidates to clear the exam was from Andhra Pradesh (AP).
The state dominated the merit list. Seven of the top ten rankers were from there, the share of Kota (which is in Rajasthan) starting only after rank 15. While in 2006, 938 candidates from AP and 1,004 from Rajasthan made it to the IITs, a year later the tables had turned, with 1,384 from AP clearing JEE and 1,344 from Rajasthan. It has been a close race since. In 2009, for example, 1,862 students from AP and 1,898 from Rajasthan cleared JEE.
There are reports from other cities and states, but many have contradictory reports. Following are data from some of these reports.
- Karnataka: 5,400 (Expressbuzz)
- Bangalore: 4,125 (Expressbuzz)
- Nagpur: 4,800 (TOI)
- Mumbai: 8,500 (DNA)
- Maharashtra: 21,000 (DNA), 21,700 (DNA)
- Lucknow: 15,000 (TOI)
- Varanasi: 8,000 (TOI)
- UP: 83,139 (TOI)
- Jaipur: 38,000 (TOI)
- Delhi: 37,411 (TOI
- Andhra Pradesh: 50,000 (Deccan Chronicle), Over 1 lakh (TOI).
- Chennai: 5,000 (Expressbuzz), 5,329 (TOI)
- Bhubaneswar: 5,000 (Times of India)
- Odisha: 40,000 (Times of India) [I doubt this number.]
April 11th, 2011