PNS | Bhubaneswar,February 11, 2010
Lauding the efforts to set up an Innovation University in Odisha, the intelligentsia said it is a matter of great satisfaction as the State is at the bottom in gross enrollment ratio (GER). But the university should be set up in a backward region rather than the State capital, they demanded.
Anirvan Mishra said in States like Odisha the Government thinks that the capital city has the first claim over all other places for locating national institutes. If not stopped, this capital centric approach will also coma to the fore when Innovation Universities are established. The HRD Ministry should constitute teams that will minutely inspect the alternative places before arriving at the exact locations of these universities, said Mishra.
The Central Government would do the right thing to include Tampara bay considered as Odisha’s Goa, near Berhampur city as one of the locations that deserve an honest inspection for examining its feasibility to house an Innovation University.
Berhampur city in south Odisha being close enough to the State capital and KBK regions which till now doesn’t have a centrally funded institute may prove to be the ideal location for such a University. The idea of Innovation University should not be allowed to fail by handpicking the places which already have a cluster of centrally funded institutes, he said.
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