Haryana to get three education projects

Haryana will get three national projects in the field of education and technology, to be set up at an estimated cost of over Rs 400 crore.
These include a Centre of Excellence for Fruits in Sirsa district as part of an Indo-Israel joint venture, country's second National Institute of Design (NID) in Kurukshetra and a first-of-its kind defence university in Gurgaon district, an official spokesperson said.
While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of defence university on May 23, Union Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister Anand Sharma will lay the foundation stone of NID in Kurukshetra a day before.

A sum of Rs 100 crore will be spent during the first phase of NID project, which will be completed within next three years, the spokesman said, adding over 20 acres of land have been acquired for setting up of the institute, he said.
The NID, Kurukshetra will be set up on the pattern of the already existing one in Ahmedabad, which had come up in 1961.
It will offer four-year bachelor degree programmes commencing after Class XII, besides a two-and-a-half-year post graduate course.

The NID will offer specialisation in the fields of automobile transportation design, industrial design, rural and agriculture production design and textile design, he said.

The Centre of Excellence for Fruits will come up under an Indo-Israel joint venture over an area of 72 acres at a cost of Rs 9.70 crore under the National Horticulture Mission.
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will inaugurate this Centre on May 21 in presence of Israel Ambassador Alon Ushpiz, the spokesperson said.