The governments at the centre and the state finally seem to compromise and find a mutually agreeable psotion on the issue of upgradation of BESU into an Idian Institute of Engineering science & Technology. IIEST, Shibpur, as it will now be called once the IIEST bill passes the Parliament and comes out enacted, will have to take 50% students from the state and will have state's representative(s) on the board of management.
Higher Education Minister of West bengal reportedly described it as a victory for the state (read a victory for a coalition partner).
So, another Institute of National Important (INI) is born to the state and hopefully BESU's signboards will change once again in a month or two. New batches of students will come through new national level entrance test and will pass out as engineering graduates or postgraduates in due course. The people of the state and students and stakeholders of the institute will become used to this new model of quota-based INI and will soon forget to remmber that this institute once had an entrance system which didn't have any reservation for the state's students.
And here lies the politics. When the institute was under the state's control, it didn't need any reservation even though the WBJEE was , and still is, a national level entrance test (and this is what the WB Govt often likes to speak of and boast of). And when the call came for its handover to the centre for a greater national need, the state preferred to seek a quota for the state and that too to the extent of 75%. The teachers, thouh, like to have the best students in their classes. And, for a new brand of INIs that is thought to emerge as one of the best brands of rsearch-intensive instutues of higher learning, any quota in the entrance system can only deter the growth pace of the brand. However, the insiders of the institute has to remain satisfied with the fact that political mentors eventualy could decide on the upgradation plan in the first year of the XI plan itself, allowing the implementation to take place over the rest of the plan period.
July 15, Switzerland
Sunday, July 15, 2007
BESU achieves status of IIEST
From chennaionline.com
Kolkata, July 13: West Bengal's premiere Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) at Shibpur in Howrah district has been given the status of Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) by the Centre.
Announcing this at his Assembly chamber, Higher Education Minister Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury told reporters that altogether five leading institutions in the country had been elevated to this status with BESU on top of the list offering integrated engineering courses at the graduate and post-graduate level.
The other four institutes which were elevated to the status of IIEST were Cochin University of Science and Technology in Kerala, Andhra University College of Engineering and Osmania University College of Engineering and Technology in Andhra Pradesh and BHU Institute of Technology in Uttar Pradesh, Roy Chowdhury said.
The decision was taken on the recommendation of the Ananda Krishnan Committee, appointed by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry.
This would be effective only after legislation in Parliament is passed, indicating the type of governance, rules and regulation, modus operandi for selection of students for admission through a competitive All India Entrance Examination among these five IIESTs, Roy Chowdhury said. (Agencies)
Kolkata, July 13: West Bengal's premiere Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) at Shibpur in Howrah district has been given the status of Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) by the Centre.
Announcing this at his Assembly chamber, Higher Education Minister Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury told reporters that altogether five leading institutions in the country had been elevated to this status with BESU on top of the list offering integrated engineering courses at the graduate and post-graduate level.
The other four institutes which were elevated to the status of IIEST were Cochin University of Science and Technology in Kerala, Andhra University College of Engineering and Osmania University College of Engineering and Technology in Andhra Pradesh and BHU Institute of Technology in Uttar Pradesh, Roy Chowdhury said.
The decision was taken on the recommendation of the Ananda Krishnan Committee, appointed by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry.
This would be effective only after legislation in Parliament is passed, indicating the type of governance, rules and regulation, modus operandi for selection of students for admission through a competitive All India Entrance Examination among these five IIESTs, Roy Chowdhury said. (Agencies)
Vigilance probe ordered in corruption cases involving Kerala CPI-M
Thiruvananthapuram, July 13: Kerala's ruling Communist Party Of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Friday suffered a huge setback when a special court ordered a vigilance probe in two corruption scandals involving the party mouthpiece Deshabhimani.Responding to a plea by the Indian Lawyers Congress, the special vigilance court asked the vigilance director to register a case and inquire into the Rs.30 million corruption allegations.The first case pertains to Deshabhimani collecting Rs.20 million in the form of a bond from lottery kingpin S. Martin.The second case involves its general manager K. Venugopal, who has been expelled both from the CPI-M and the newspaper, following allegations that he had taken a bribe of Rs.10 million from a controversial private financial institution, which was closed down last year.
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