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  • AP IIT’s medical plans on!

    AP IIT’s medical plans on!

    The recent deci sion of the IIT-Council, the apex decision-making body of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, to allow IITs to start medical courses has revived the hopes of IIT-Hyderabad to launch a medical school on its campus at Medak.

    It has become essential for IIT-Hyderabad to set up a medical school following its decision to focus on biology by offering courses like bio-informatics, biotechnology etc. This requires students to visit medical schools frequently and IIT-H feels that having its own medical school will benefit both students and the faculty.

    IIT-H had in July 2009 announced its plan to set up a medical school after the Union minister for HRD, Mr Kapil Sibal, asked the IITs to expand their horizon beyond engineering.

    However, the proposal was shelved for over a year after differences cropped up between the Union HRD and health ministries. But the recent decision of the IIT-Council has enabled IIT-H to go ahead with its plans.

    Prof U.B. Desai, director, IIT-H, earlier announced that the IIT-H is planning to offer MD degrees in the next three years initially and launch MBBS courses later.

    IIT Kharagpur proposes to start a medical institution in collaboration with Indian Railways, which will offer courses for MBBS, MD, MS and PhD degrees.

    Source: Deccan Chronicle

  • World class varsity in Vizag fails to take off!

    Hyderabad, Sept. 13: The much-touted ?world-class university? in Visakhapatnam has failed to take off though it has been more than two years since the Centre announced the project.

    In 2008, the Union HRD ministry had announced plans of 14 ?world-class universities? across the country, of which one was allotted to Andhra Pradesh. The state government had also come forward and offered around 800 acre in Visakhapatnam to set up the varsity.

    Though the university was later renamed by the Centre as ?Innovation University?, officials of the higher education department are clueless about when the actual works will begin.

    The state government had identified four sites in Vizag for the purpose and submitted a proposal to UMHRD for clearance. However, there has been no response from the Centre till now.

    Sources in the department of higher education said the Centre?s stand about setting up the ?Innovation Universities? has changed and that?s the reason for the delay.

    While Mr Arjun Singh was at the helm of the ministry, the UMHRD had said it would bear the entire expenditure to set up the university if the state government offered land free of cost. However, after Mr Kapil Sibal took over in May 2009, there has been a major change in the concept of ?Innovation Universities?.

    The ministry has recently drafted a fresh concept note stating that private institutions will also be allowed to set up these universities under public-private partnership mode (PPP).

    Officials said the fresh note also raised objections on the sites finalised for the project stating that the innovation universities should come up in places that can attract students and world-class faculty and some sites already identified will not be able to live up to the expectations of a world-class university.

    However, the Union minister of state for HRD, Ms D. Purandeswari said the world-class university would be a reality in Vizag in a year. ?It is still being discussed how a world-class university should be. So, there is some delay. I cannot give an exact time-frame but in a year a world-class university would definitely be a reality in Visakhapatnam,?? she said.

    Source:DC

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