The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) today announced the locations of eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and seven Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) along with 30 Central and ‘world class universities’ to be set up in the country during the 11th Plan period.
Out of the eight IITs, first announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his Independence Day speech, one IIT would be set up at Indore in Madhya Pradesh while Orissa, Gujarat and Punjab would get one each.
The ministry had earlier announced IITs for Bihar, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Medak district near Hyderabad has been identified for Andhra Pradesh IIT, according to state government official.
Of the seven new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), envisaged in the 11th Plan, one each would be set up in Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Chhattisgarh. An IIM for the North-East at Shillong was earlier announced and has been named as Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management.
HRD Minister Arjun Singh who made the announcement today also named the locations for 16 Central universities and a new category of 14 ‘world class universities’ to come up in state capitals and major cities. The latter are Central universities which the government says would aspire to world standards.
The 16 Central universities would be set up in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Goa.
In three states, existing state universities would be taken over by the Central government and converted into Central universities. These are Dr Hari Singh Gaur University, Sagar (Madhya Pradesh), Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), and Goa University.
“Establishment of the IITs, IIMs and Central universities in the above states is subject to state governments offering adequate land at suitable locations, free of cost, for the purpose,” Arjun Singh said.
According to officials, each of the new IIT would require about Rs 760 crore to make it fully functional, while an IIM would need Rs 250 crore.
For a Central university, the requirement is Rs 250 to Rs 300 crore (including recurring and non-recurring costs over a period of four to five years). While intake of the new IITs would be around 2,500 students, it would be 120 per year in IIMs, they said.
State-wise list of cities identified for locating 14 world class universities during the 11th Plan:
1 Maharashtra - Pune 2 West Bengal - Kolkata 3 Tamil Nadu - Coimbatore 4 Karnataka - Mysore 5 Andhra Pradesh - Vishakapatanam 6 Gujarat - Gandhinagar 7 Rajasthan - Jaipur 8 Bihar - Patna 9 Madhya Pradesh - Bhopal 10 Kerala - Kochi 11 Punjab - Amritsar 12 Orissa - Bhubaneshwar 13 Uttar Padesh - Greater Noida 14 North Eastern Region - Guwahati
In the IIMs 80% of the faculties may have PHDs but the delivery quality is very poor. 20% are really good.
The problem lies not in setting up IITs and IIM but also quality of faculty, there is an absolute shortage of faculty. Industry is paying more than academics.
It's still a catch 22 situations.
But good to know things are comomg up.
Dev
I would like to welcome world class universities at coimbatore-chennai. I suggest u instead of coimbatore , Madurai is the better place for that because peoples from south,middle of tamilnadu, it is easy to access.
Posted by: modiRajnish
February 12 , 2010, 00:33 IST
I am searching for my friend, who was working with me at PS coimbature then he joined NSE coimbature. Is that you m.kannan? Pl. reply. Thanks
Posted by: vettri
August 05 , 2009, 18:27 IST
i also concur with u mr.m.kannan .madurai is a developing city .its need development like this
one of the most deservoing state of Haryana has not been provided any IIT or World Class Univ, this is rediculous..its good to provide an IIM n a Central Univ, but it deserves the other 2 as well at first place..even an educational city is coming up at Sonipat..good thinkers wud have done well using it by making provisions for all FOUR..
there should an IIT or world classs university in JABALPUR (M.P.) instead of Indore or Bhopal.Jabalpur Engg. College is a good instt. which may be converted to IIt or world class university
Posted by: gourav
April 02 , 2010, 12:10 IST
there shoud be an iit in each city of india
Posted by: Sanjay
November 17 , 2009, 13:39 IST
i fully agree with avinash, i am not able to understand why M.P. government wants to locate all premier instute in one city. on the other hand all the four cities of M.P. are more or less equal status, ultimately population explosion will come on indore. and govrnment wants to give credit to indore only. this is not justifiable.
there should be a world class university in nagpur instead of pune or mumbai.as it is centrally situated and have a excellent opportunity in accordance with MIHAN project.so nagpur is better option than pune
Puna is already overcrowded with a huge no. of educational institutes,why not a central location ,nagpur, selected for a single allocated university to maharastra.
Do we have enough no. of quality professors?
--- Nikhilesh,
Posted by: Pradeep
June 11 , 2009, 15:00 IST
dont worry, we will import some good professors us, europe etc. if we can work as engineers in their country, we can of course let them teach here. no probs at all. Anyways I assume the central universities will have large number of foreign students so the balance will be quite right.
Posted by: saurabh
June 05 , 2009, 22:21 IST
no,though we have enough number of professor but quality wise they are not up to the mark.
Posted by: sushank
April 26 , 2009, 17:26 IST
yes we have high quality of proffesor in india.india have high quality of eaducation.
Why kolkata has been selected for locating a central university? It is already congested. In place of kolkata, Kalyani should have been selected for the central university. Kalyani is close to Kolkata and has got good connections and enough free space is available. I would request the concerned authority to consider Kalyani afresh.
S.C.Sannyasi, Kalyani.
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